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     Posse

1975  PG  WESTERN  1h 32min

CAST— Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins, James Stacy, Luke Askew, David Canary, Alfonso Arau, Katharine Woodville, Beth Brickell

MUSIC— Maurice Jarre  DIRECTOR— Kirk Douglas

     Mount up! Kirk Douglas plays an ambitious, charismatic Texas senate hopeful. He’s also a ruthless marshal for the Lone Star state who, along with his team (or “posse”) of devoted men, has either captured or killed every outlaw he’s set out to catch. But there’s always one, now isn’t there? Bruce Dern plays a notorious train robber whose lifestyle spells doom for any posse that travels with him. Douglas and his men kill Dern’s men, capture the outlaw and take him to town to thunderous applause. The applause dies, however, when Dern escapes capture and shows the town that their precious marshal is but a mere human, after all. Interesting final moments add a final grain of salt to the wound in a humiliating twist. Star Douglas directs with verve but his performance (though on par, of course) is trumped by Dern’s easy going nature; it’s a little hard to choose a side to root for but a good time is still to be had.

OUR RATING— ***