Not much in big budget production values, but western fans, this one's a must. He's done that before most notably as one of Lee Marvin's sidekicks in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, but he brings that character to its lowest depths in An Eye For An Eye. Strother Martin is also in this playing a nasty toad like character who'll sell anybody out for a few dollars. It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann (Sally Field) takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob (Kiefer Sutherland), the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter. But he was never nastier on the screen than in this film. Western fans will also recall him in both One Eyed Jacks and Rough Night In Jericho as a villain. Strangelove and Blazing Saddles, he could play it mean. Slim expanded his range considerably and while most probably remember him for Dr. The leads are fine, but the two you will remember are first Slim Pickens who started out in westerns and got first notice as a goofy sidekick to Rex Allen. They devise an imaginary clock like gambit to use when they have to face Pickens inevitably. Probably in time they could recover, but do they have that kind of time because Pickens is out to get them. Lansing's gun hand is crippled and Wayne's blinded. During an encounter with gunslinger outlaw Slim Pickens, both being bounty hunters kill two of Slim's running buddies but are left injured. Both Robert Lansing and Patrick Wayne have to supply some needs for the other in An Eye For An Eye. But shock and grief turn into rage and disbelief when the killer (Sutherland) is released on a legal. Karen McCann's (Sally Field) orderly life is shattered when a stranger breaks into her home and murders her 17-year-old daughter. As Jaffe said in the film 'we make a considerable man'. Two-time Academy-Award winner Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland and Ed Harris star in this riveting thriller about the search for justice in an unjust world. Each supplied the other with what he was missing. So he made a partnership of sorts with Ady Barber playing a big strong man whose tongue had been cut out. In the great MGM epic Ben-Hur one of the subplots involved Sam Jaffe who was the House of Hur steward spending many years in jail and being beaten so bad he lost the use of his legs.
That's no reflection on their quality just their star power.
An Eye For Eye is a taught and lean with a fine cast of second string players. If you are very lucky you'll be able to catch this western as it showed up on YouTube and I could see it for the first time since it was in theaters.
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