Hombre (Spanish for 'man') is a 1967 American revisionist Western film directed by Martin Ritt, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard and starring Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone and Diane Cilento. Newman's amount of dialogue in the film is minimal and much of the role is conveyed through mannerism and action. This was the sixth and final time Ritt directed ...
Hombre: Directed by Martin Ritt. With Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento. John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Apaches becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
Just because the ingredients are familiar, however, doesn’t mean “Hombre” isn’t an absorbing, suspenseful film. Indeed, Hollywood seems at its best when it returns to its traditions, and nothing is more Hollywood than the big, socially significant Western. All directors do one to prove they haven’t sold out. Last year, Richard Brooks’ “The Professionals” was the best-directed ...
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Hombre (1967) - Plot summary, synopsis, and more... It's the late nineteenth century in the Arizona Territory. John Russell was kidnapped by the Apaches when he was a child, they who raised him as Apache. John Russell finds him among the Apaches and takes him in and gives him his name. Russell decided to return to life up in the mountains with the Apache. Russell learns that his step-father ...