 Hombre
(1967)
Director: Martin Ritt
Key Cast: Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento, Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Rush, Peter Lazer, Margaret Blye, Martin Balsam, Skip Ward, Frank Silvera, David Canary, Val Avery, Larry Ward |
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"Hombre" stars Paul Newman as a man who is half Apache that faces racial bigotry on a stagecoach, but finds himself being pivotal in saving the passengers from a gang of thieves.
 
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“Hombre” means MAN - - Paul Newman is HOMBRE.
“Hombre” is suspenseful western about racial bigotry.
An old family friend comes to visit John Russell (Paul Newman) to tell him that his father has died and left him an inheritance – a boarding house and a gold watch. He urges John to return with him to claim the bequest, but John is hesitant to do so because he is not eager to rejoin the “White” race. John has been happily living amongst the Apache Indians for years.
John eventually decides to return home and claim the boarding house so that he can sell it. This puts him at odds with the Jessie (Diane Cilento), the woman who has been running the boarding house for years and wants to continue doing so. Jessie, however, can’t afford to buy it.
Now Jessie, John and several other passengers find themselves together on the only stagecoach leaving town. Their bigotry emerges when they find out that John is part Apache and actually spent time living as an Apache Indian.
The situation completely changes when they all get robbed and are left to die in the desert. Now they are depending on John Russell to save them. |
• “Hombre” was filmed on location in Arizona at the Coronado National Forest, the Helvetia Mine owned by the Anaconda Company, and in Old Tucson.
• “Hombre” is based on the novel Hombre by Elmore Leonard (London, 1961). |
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Paul Newman stars in "Hombre" as a
half Apache Indian who returns home to
collect an inheritance that his father
left him.
When he leaves town, he gets on a stagecoach
with an interesting mixture of people who
then turn on him when they discover that he is
part Indian. But, their very lives may depend
on him. |
