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4.0 out of 5 stars
Molly and Lawless John,
By Terrance Lee Conrad (Edmonton, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Molly & Lawless John (DVD)
I am big fan of Sam Elliot but had never heard of this movie before. It is one of his very early westerns. He is young in this movie and the trade mark moustache isn't there but his acting is very much the same as in his later years. The visual quality of the movie is not that good in places and I imagine it is due to the age of the movie it self. The story however is a good one and Sam Elliot and Vera Miles put in very good performances. The western scenery they travel through on their adventure is great. I would recommend this movie to any Sam Elliot fan and fan of westerns in general.
2.0 out of 5 stars
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Certainly not the best movie we have seen Sam Elliot act in. Elliot is young in this film but that still shouldn't be the cause of a poor movie.
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2.7 out of 5 stars (10 customer reviews) 33 of 33 people found the following review helpful
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A WESTERN FROM THE GENRE'S TWILIGHT YEARS,
By Parisonn of Atlantis - Published on Amazon.com
Had this movie been made a dozen years earlier, it might have found an audience. By 1973, however, the Hollywood western was riding into the sunset and the studio hardly bothered even releasing this admittedly-minor production.Vera Miles plays the shy, quiet wife of a blustery frontier lawman who clearly doesn't appreciate her. On impulse, she helps a handsome, sweet-talking young prisoner escape from her husband's jail. The bulk of the movie then follows this mismatched pair as they flee across a desert landscape. The dialog between the runaway wife and the outlaw isn't sharp enough or observant enough to lift the proceedings above the ordinary, but the femininist tone of the script is a pleasant surprise and Vera Miles makes for an appealing heroine. Sam Elliott, virtually unknown at the time, plays the escaping prisoner. His screen personae hadn't yet developed and so his character never quite comes into focus. At times the movie simply uses him for "beefcake" value and he has several scenes in which he gets to show off that gloriously-hairy chest. While not a notable contribution to the genre, "Molly and Lawless John" at least brought no shame to the once-proud American western. 16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Technical problems render this oater virtually unwatchable,
By David C. Read - Published on Amazon.com
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This undistinguished oater is made much worse by technical problems. It isn't a bad little western, and the two lead roles are played competently by Vera Miles, whose most famous role was Laurie Jorgensen in "The Searchers," and Sam Elliott, who was born to make westerns. It had a good plot and some beautiful desert locations.Unfortunately, the film was not well shot. None--and I mean not one--of the interior scenes is adequately lighted; you can barely make out dark shadows moving around against a black background. The scenes in the Cactus Jail, which are key and set up the movie, might as well be taking place in a cave without even a candle for light. Then there's the DVD which is full-frame and was mastered from an extremely distressed print of the film. The DVD is blurry and shows every scratch, spot, and speck of dirt that 33 years of obscurity could inflict on the print. Too bad. Miles and Elliott deserved better. Frankly, because of the technical issues, the film is probably not worth wasting 90 minutes on. 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Westerns started Coming Back,
By Dennis W. Smith - Published on Amazon.com
In the late 1960's and early 1970's the "western" started making a comeback.(It had really never left the American psyche)--"Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid","Jeremiah Johnson",etc--Right thru the award winning "Lonesome Dove" in 1991 and the oscar winning (best film) "Unforgiven"--And recently the remake of "3:10 To Yuma"---"Molly and Lawless John" was(is)a gem of a western that was made without fanfare much as "The Ballad Of Cable Hogue" and "A Big Hand For The little Lady"were which were classics.I would rate "Lawless John" in that group and highly recommend it.
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