Silverado
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 Silverado DVD Cover |
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| Directed by | Lawrence Kasdan |
| Produced by | Lawrence Kasdan |
| Written by | Lawrence Kasdan Mark Kasdan |
| Starring | Kevin Kline Scott Glenn Kevin Costner Danny Glover Brian Dennehy |
| Music by | Bruce Broughton |
| Cinematography | John Bailey |
| Editing by | Carol Littleton |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | July 10, 1985 |
| Running time | 127 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | 26 million USD |
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Silverado is an American Western feature film, first released on July 10, 1985. It was directed by Lawrence Kasdan and written by Lawrence and Mark Kasdan. The movie features an ensemble cast including Kevin Kline as Paden, Scott Glenn as Emmett, Danny Glover as Malachi "Mal" Johnson, Kevin Costner as Jake, and Brian Dennehy as Cobb.
Tagline: Get ready for the ride of your life.
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[edit] Plot overview
Four "lawful outlaws"—Paden (Kline), Emmett (Glenn), Jake (Costner) and Mal (Glover)—meet and travel to Silverado, where they thwart a corrupt rancher and the ruthless sheriff who is on the rancher's payroll.
[edit] Featured cast
| Actor | Role |
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| Rosanna Arquette | Hannah |
| Ray Baker | Ethan McKendrick |
| John Cleese | Sheriff John T. Langston |
| Kevin Costner | Jake |
| Brian Dennehy | Sheriff Cobb |
| Jeff Fahey | Deputy Tyree |
| James Gammon | Dawson |
| Scott Glenn | Emmet |
| Danny Glover | Malachi 'Mal' Johnson |
| Jeff Goldblum | 'Slick' Calvin Stanhope |
| Earl Hindman | J.T. Hollis |
| Linda Hunt | Stella |
| Brion James | Hobart |
| Richard Jenkins | Kelly |
| Kevin Kline | Paden |
| Marvin J. McIntyre | Clerk at Cavalry Post |
| Joe Seneca | Ezra Johnson |
| Pepe Serna | Scruffy, McKendrick Hand |
| Lynn Whitfield | Rae Johnson |
| Amanda Wyss | Phoebe |
[edit] Awards
Silverado's score by Bruce Broughton was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score in 1985. It lost to Out of Africa.
1986 Academy Awards (Oscars)
- Nominated - Best Original Score — Bruce Broughton
- Nominated - Best Sound Mixing — Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O'Connell, David M. Ronne
1986 Casting Society of America (Artios)
- Nominated - Best Casting for Feature Film: Drama — Wallis Nicita
[edit] Trivia
- Lawrence Kasdan offered the Jake role to Kevin Costner in part to make up for having cut Costner's scenes in The Big Chill.
- Earl Hindman, who plays J.T. (the brother-in-law of Emmett and Jake), plays Wilson on the television series Home Improvement, although he is hardly recognizable since a running gag of the series is to always obscure his face.
- The final line of Silverado, "We'll be back!", shouted by Jake as he and Emmett ride into the sunset, has had countless fans wishing that a follow-up movie had been made (a 1999 nationwide video poll chose Silverado as the film "Most Deserving of a Sequel"), but time has eliminated that possibility.
- John Cleese's first line: "What's all this then?" is a direct reference to the words often uttered by law enforcement officers who entered the scene of a crime in Monty Python's Flying Circus.
[edit] External links
- Silverado at the Internet Movie Database
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