After a failed stagecoach robbery, Sarah, a convicted killer, frees herself and steals the money from the strongbox, but Jack robs her. The marshal sets after both of them so they become par... Read allAfter a failed stagecoach robbery, Sarah, a convicted killer, frees herself and steals the money from the strongbox, but Jack robs her. The marshal sets after both of them so they become partners.After a failed stagecoach robbery, Sarah, a convicted killer, frees herself and steals the money from the strongbox, but Jack robs her. The marshal sets after both of them so they become partners.
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This The Desperate Trail ¨(1994) contains strong performances augmented by blazing guns , hobbled by weak writing . Nevertheless, it doesn't have much interest at times , neither intensity enough , though Sam Elliott captures his role pretty well . J. P. Pesce's slick direction , he was named Best Independent Director of the Year at the Hamptons International Film Festival for his critically acclaimed film The Desperate Trail (1994) , which he wrote and shoot . Nice acting from Sam Elliot as the merciless avenger Marshal Speakes who's really decided to sentence his contender to the gallows . Star Sam Elliott is a detached figure in Western genre , being one of its main representatives , performing a lot of them in the Eighties and Nineties , as cinema as TV , such as : Cactus , Houston The Legend of Texas , Yellow Rose , The Quick and the Dead , Gettysburg , Hi-Lo County , You Know My Name , Buffalo Girls , Indians, Wild Times , The Shadow Riders , and several others . While Linda Fiorentino is fine as the brave woman and an arrested killer who decides to no longer take any humiliation or battery , as she frees herself . She becomes partner to bandit Jack Cooper well played by Craig Sheffer.
The motion picture was professionally directed by P. J. Pesce , though it has some flaws . P. J. Pesce studied directing under and Brian De Palma and Martin Scorsese from whom he received honors and also studied editing and acting . This filmmaker is an expert on sequels such as he proved in ¨Sniper 3 ¨ and ¨ From dusk till down : the hangman's daughter ¨ and ¨The lost boys : the tribe¨. Equally , he directed a lot of episodes of notorious TV series , such as : ¨Leverage¨ , ¨Fringe¨ , ¨Transporter¨, ¨Under the Dome¨ , ¨Supernatural¨ , ¨American Gothic¨ , ¨Code Black¨, ¨Quantico¨, ¨Blue Bloods¨ , among others. Rating : 6/10 . Acceptable and passable Western . The movie will appeal to Sam Elliott fans.
P.S. I don't know if this was a deliberate part of the realism of this film, but about the brief topless scene by Jill Scott Momaday. Her breasts are a bit sagging, noticeably real. I'm not putting down Ms. Momaday, as I prefer that to the more common huge mounds of silicone. Just thought it was interesting.
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- TriviaLinda Fiorentino's horse riding stunt double accused Fiorentino of being very jealous of her. According to her, Fiorentino paid the horse wranglers to "mistakenly" give her a retired rodeo bucking horse that nearly killed her and ended her career.
- GoofsThe posse contains six men when they ride into town prior to the shootout. The shootout kills one of them and a second member is killed by the marshal. In the following scene where they are on the trail of the fugitives, the posse again numbers six men.
- Quotes
Dry Goods Clerk: This jacket is made of genuine India rubber. It distracts the rain completely. Wearing one of these is like having a roof over your head.
Sarah O'Rourke: That's fine for folks too stupid to get out of the rain.
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- Runtime
- 1h 33m(93 min)
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- 1.85 : 1