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Directed by Tom Gries
USA 1967
Hollywood legend Charlton Heston (Secret of the Incas, The Big Country, Ben-Hur) stars as Will Penny, an aging cowboy on a hard-luck streak. He’s out of work, out of money, and staked out to die in the desert by a gang of ruthless outlaws. Moments before death, Will is taken in by the beautiful Catherine (Joan Hackett, Support Your Local Sheriff), who is heading west with her young son to join her husband. As Catherine nurses Will back to health, he catches a glimpse of a lifestyle he’s never known. Suddenly, Will has two more problems to deal with: he’s in love with another man’s wife, and the outlaw gang is on its way back to finish him off. Heston’s favorite film in which he appeared, the elegiac Will Penny was written and directed by Tom Gries (100 Rifles, Breakout, Breakheart Pass), shot by Lucien Ballard (The Wild Bunch), and finely cast with Donald Pleasence, Bruce Dern, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens, Clifton James, Anthony Zerbe, Jon Gries and Lee Majors. *** Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another. |
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Theatrical Release: December 14th, 1967
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Runtime | 1:49:55.672 | |
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Release Information: Studio: Kino
1.85 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 38,498,994,558 bytesFeature: 35,723,649,024 bytes Video Bitrate: 39.40 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • NEW Audio Commentary by Author/Screenwriter C. Courtney Joyner, Film Historian Henry Parke and WILL PENNY Script Supervisor Michael Preece • Remembering WILL PENNY: Featurette with Charlton Heston and Jon Gries (13:21) • The Cowboys of WILL PENNY: Featurette with Charlton Heston and Jon Gries (3:27) • Theatrical Trailer (3:09)
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On their
Blu-ray,
Kino use a DTS-HD Master dual-mono track (24-bit) in the
original English language. Will Penny
has aggressive sequences with rifle and gun fire, cattle drives, horses
and physical conflicts. It comes through with healthy depth in the
lossless. The score was by
David Raksin (Night
Tide,
Forever
Amber,The
Bad and the Beautiful,
The
Day After,
Separate
Tables,
Laura,
Bigger
Than Life,
The Big Combo) who had more than 100 film scores and 300
television scores to his credit. The music is supportive of the onscreen
action and there is a final song, by Raskin, in the closing credits;
The Lonely Rider sung by Don Cherry. Kino offer optional English
subtitles on their Region 'A'
Blu-ray.
The Kino
Blu-ray
Tom Gries' Will Penny
was based upon the director's own written episode of the 1960 Sam
Peckinpah TV series
The Westerner.
It was called "Line Camp" with Brian Keith, Slim Pickens (also in
Will Penny) and Robert Culp. Will Penny
is
famously known as Heston's favorite of all his own films - appreciating
the pioneering realism that it portrayed. It has a great cast with Joan
Hackett, Donald Pleasence, Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern, Lee Majors, and
Pickens. We get a slow building character study situated in the Olde
West - a wonderful example of the genre. The Kino Blu-ray
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