The Long Riders | |
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Directed by | Walter Hill |
Written by | Bill Bryden Steven Phillip Smith Stacy Keach James Keach |
Produced by | Tim Zinnemann Stacy Keach James Keach |
Starring | David Carradine Keith Carradine Robert Carradine James Keach Stacy Keach Dennis Quaid Randy Quaid Christopher Guest Nicholas Guest |
Cinematography | Ric Waite |
Edited by | Freeman A. Davies David Holden |
Music by | Ry Cooder |
Production company | Huka Productions |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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.