Hill's `Wild Bill': more dead than alive

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: March 4, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

WILD BILL

Directed by: Walter Hill

Screenplay by: Hill, based on Thomas Babe's play "Fathers

and Sons" and Pete Dexter's novel, "Deadwood"

Starring: Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, John Hurt, Diane

Lane, David Arquette, Christina Applegate, Bruce Dern,

James Gammon, Marjoe Gortner

Playing at: Harvard Film Archive

Rated: R (Wild West violence and a sex scene)

Walter Hill's "Wild Bill" is a too-literal evocation of the played-out frontier experience. It's imaginatively shot and bravely and even iconically acted by Jeff Bridges as Wild Bill Hickock, but it's numbed and ...

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