I'm not one to dwell on movie goofs but Hombre has a classic gaffe. At the end, Boone's character sends one of his men around to the back of the shack; Russell notices this and says something like..."they're trying to flank us". He then walks down the hill, everyone dies in the shootout, everyone else comes down the steps and the credits roll. I wonder if, 42 years later, that bandit is still back there waiting for them to come out?
shareYeah me too. Ever sonce I saw it at thw Cornell theter in Burbank when it was first released. I was a Richard Boone fan from reruns of his show Palladin. My friend and I were screaming at the end credits, "Look out for the guy he sent around the hill!!" OK, Only I yelled, but still... The choice of the Newman,one of the best of "Look at me school of acting" alum, simply made the irony of an Injun' saving white folk all the more sallow and ridiculous.
shareHow was it "sallow and ridiculous"?
shareA loose-end, not a gaffe. Upon hearing the shoot-out, he would have recced the scene, saw the baddies were all dead, and slunk off back to Central Casting for more extra work.
shareI agree. Seeing the outcome of the shootout would have made for a "Feet don't fail me now" moment.
shareI have to disagree there. Yes, he would have seen the other baddies were dead but he also would have seen that Russell, the only real threat to him, was also dead and he would still have the element of surprise on his side. I can't imagine for that amount of money he wouldn't have at least tried to potshot the two guys with guns and worst case if it doesn't work ride away on the horse.
shareMad Magazine pointed this out in its satire of the film back in 1967. As the 3rd bandit put it in the last panel, as he gets the drop on the survivors, takes the money and starts counting it greedily, "The screenwriter forgot about me, the director forgot about me, the audience forgot about me, but I didn't forget about me."
shareHa, nice.
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