Monte Walsh

Excellent western one of the best great acting well worth watchingDVD arrived well before E.T.A many thanks to the team at Amazon.

Monte Walsh (1970) is a U.S. western film directed by cinematographer William A. Fraker (his directorial debut) starring Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, & Jack Palance. Here are the pros & cons of film as I see it, I hope this helps you.Pros:1. Lee Marvin does a great job acting in this film.Cons:1. Where is the editing? It appears William A. Fraker just could not let go of any work, which really takes away from the film as it drags on much longer than need be and if anything, takes away from film's appeal.

Lee Marvin should have won an Oscar for this performance and Jack Palance was also excellent. The setting, sets and wardrobe was done very authenticly. Unlike the later Tom Selleck version where long time cowboys in hard times all had brand new rigs. Jeanne Moreau was great. Her bedroom scenes with Marvin were better played and more sensual than any of the modern nude scenes. This movie ranks right up there with “Gone With the Wind” as the end of the cowboy way of life in the west.

Lurve me some Lee Marvin. This film is definitely worth watching if just for the scene where they give the cook a bath!

Save your cash on this one. The film is an excellent effort... However the reproduction under this label is POOR to say the least. Grainy, Color faded throughout, and even some film detection spots. A waste of money!!!

I first saw this when it came on TV many years ago and thought it was a wonderful wild western. Being 23-24 or so then and 64 now, I am able to see this as the sad tale of a bygone era and the end of the lives of the characters. Having lived what I thought was a "wild life" I realized after it was gone that I was alone in the world and everyone and everything I had mistakenly thought important was gone. My former values were of no meaning to others.The end of the movie, where Marvin is talking to his horse was a statement of his inability to have actually lived in his cowboy world while the real outside world grew and overwhelmed his. The movie "Big Wednesday" and others deal with characters who lived so deeply within themselves that they missed the rest of the world.I recommend Monte Walsh (Lee Marvin) and Big Wednesday (a surfer movie) An English writing class could find these of value, more so for modern students then perhaps many of the established masterpieces. I tutor at a Jr. College. The great majority of students are not aware of the classics or these movies I recommend. I have outlived the world I valued, much as the characters in my recommendations. John M

Lee Marvin, Jack Palance and Jeanne Moreau! What a list of true iconic legends. Monte Walsh is truly a real representation of the "Old West"! I live in Arizona and have seen the West that most people have only dreamed of seeing. Monte Walsh, filmed 30 miles south of Benson, Arizona, and the King Anvil Ranch, 30 miles west of Tucson. Tombstone with Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer, filmed near Mescal, Red River, 35 miles southeast of Nogales to name a few. Monte Walsh shows the rugged, harsh and dirty that was the West. Yes, Tom Selleck played the role but he does not possess the "realness" of the West. Marvin and Palance played it as if it was in the time period of the 1880's. Being a 4th generation Arizonan and lived on a cattle ranch in my younger years, as portrayed in Monte Walsh is as real at it can get. The romance of cattle ranching is not as portrayed in the "average" western; rather the dust, dirt, heat, and a hardscrabble existance when times "git rough" is well portrayed in this movie. No two performers could have portrayed it better! And of course, the music composed by the renowned John Barry and the vocals done by "Momma Cass" makes Monte Walsh a true classic in all ways. It is one of my favorites in my enormous collection of western DVD's. Enjoy!!!

IMHO this is much better than the newer remake with Tom Selleck, which I did also enjoy. Neither of them is as good as the book, or does justice to the book, but this earlier version is more true to the book than the later remake. It especially highlights the playful, friendly comradery, and caring friendships among the cowboys. The friendship between Monte and Chet is more real. This is perhaps the best role I can recall by Jack Palance, and one of the best for Lee Marvin. In this film you really feel how cornered and hopeless life is becoming as the era of the cowboy is coming to an end and the men whose livelihood it has been are finding themselves without enough money or employment options to start over, forcing more than one of them to consider breaking the law to feed themselves. If you enjoy either of these movies though, I would highly recommend reading the book. You will never forget it.

Monte Walsh is an alltime Classic western,maybe Lee Marvin,s best performance,a poignant story of an ageing Cowboy.This blu-ray transfer is beautiful,it has a few "grainy moments",but by and large it is stunning picture quality,sound too,the transfer is a tribute to the film itself.I was very fortunate to buy Monte Walsh blu-ray from amazon marketplace uk,great price,as a Xmas present for myself,it,s a German release with two audio tracks,German/English,NO SUBTITLES,so you can just pop it in look for the sprache on the menu,choose English,and sit back and relax and watch a Classic western with GREAT picture quality,the best it,s ever looked,HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!D.Cairns.

First saw this memorable Lee Marvin classic many years ago. I have waited some years for the opportunity to obtain a copy in Region 2 format at a reasonable price. Then unfortunately the first copy despatched got lost in the Christmas post. But that was no fault of Amazon nor of their subcontractor DVD Import Shop. Once the problem was reported, DVDshop despatched another copy first class without delay. I have watched enough to confirm that it plays OK and I am looking forward to the first opportunity to see it right through.

This German originated dvd was in excellent condition and arrived early.I saw it in the cinema in the 70s and my affection for it has endured. Lee Marvin is particularly good. Worth every penny!

My mum had asked me to try and find this film for her husband, I found it here & ordered it. They didn't tell me that it was in French until a few months later but apparently he watched it anyway. I felt guilty for my recommendation and purchased this again elsewhere which was a success.

Lovely film ( a la Butch Cassidy) about the gradual end of the old west, played with humour by the two leads, lost one star ( should have been three really) for the transfer which is full of speckles, grime etc. throughout." I ain't spitting on my whole life ".