Western starring Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn and Kevin Costner. After surviving an ambush by mysterious gunmen as he travels to Silverado to visit his sister and her family, Emmett discovers that his relatives in the town are being terrorised by a corrupt rancher.
Billed as the movie that was going to revive the ailing western, this film merely performed a little resuscitation before Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven proved there was life in the old genre yet. Just as Steven Spielberg plundered the Saturday serial for his Indiana Jones yarns, so Lawrence Kasdan (who wrote the screenplay for Raiders of the Lost Ark) rustled ideas from virtually every B-western made. It's an invigorating adventure, with Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover and Scott Glenn making attractive heroes. Brian Dennehy and Jeff Goldblum play the hissable villains and John Cleese enjoys his cameo as a pompous English lawman. Pity the thundering hooves didn't drown out Bruce Broughton's less-than-inspiring score, though.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Paden | Kevin Kline |
| Emmett | Scott Glenn |
| Jake | Kevin Costner |
| Sheriff Langston | John Cleese |
| Cobb | Brian Dennehy |
| Mal | Danny Glover |
| Slick | Jeff Goldblum |
| Stella | Linda Hunt |
| Hannah | Rosanna Arquette |
| Stable boy | Jake Kasdan |
| Dawson | James Gammon |
| Ezra | Joe Seneca |
| Rae | Lynn Whitfield |
| Tyree | Jeff Fahey |
| Kelly | Richard Jenkins |
| Scruffy | Pepe Serna |
| McKendrick | Ray Baker |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Lawrence Kasdan |
