The Long Riders

The Long Riders
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWalter Hill
Written byBill Bryden
Steven Phillip Smith
Stacy Keach
James Keach
Produced byTim Zinnemann
Stacy Keach
James Keach
StarringDavid Carradine
Keith Carradine
Robert Carradine
James Keach
Stacy Keach
Dennis Quaid
Randy Quaid
Christopher Guest
Nicholas Guest
CinematographyRic Waite
Edited byFreeman A. Davies
David Holden
Music byRy Cooder
Production
company
Huka Productions
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • May 16, 1980 (1980-05-16)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$8 million[1]
Box office$15,795,189[2]
241,290 admissions (France)[3]

The Long Riders is a 1980 American Biographical- Western film directed by Walter Hill. It was produced by James Keach, Stacy Keach and Tim Zinnemann and featured an original soundtrack by Ry Cooder. Cooder won the Best Music award in 1980 from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for this soundtrack. The film was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.[4]

The film is notable for having cast four sets of actual brothers to play the four sets of brothers in the James–Younger Gang.

  1. ^ Greco, Mike (October 21, 1979). "Brothers 9 in Riders: 'We're family'". Los Angeles Times. Jacksonville TX. p. n28 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "The Long Riders (1980)". Box Office Mojo. January 1, 1982. Archived from the original on December 9, 2003. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
  3. ^ Box office figures for Walter Hill films in France at Box Office Story
  4. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Long Riders". festival-cannes.com. La France. 1980. Archived from the original on October 3, 2009. Retrieved May 28, 2009.

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