Hombre

Hombre is a 1967 Revisionist Western film directed by Martin Ritt, based on the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard. It stars Paul Newman in the title role. Newman's amount of dialogue in the film is minimal and much of the role is conveyed through mannerism and action. This was the sixth and final time Ritt directed Newman, they had previously worked together on The Long Hot Summer, Paris Blues, Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, Hud an... more

Hombre is a 1967 Revisionist Western film directed by Martin Ritt, based on the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard. It stars Paul Newman in the title role. Newman's amount of dialogue in the film is minimal and much of the role is conveyed through mannerism and action. This was the sixth and final time Ritt directed Newman, they had previously worked together on The Long Hot Summer, Paris Blues, Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, Hud and The Outrage. In late 19th-century Arizona, an Apache-raised white man, John Russell (Paul Newman), faces prejudice in the white world after he returns for his inheritance (a gold watch and a boarding house) upon his father's death. Deciding to sell the house in order to buy a herd of horses -- which does not endear him to the boarders who live there or to the caretaker, Jessie (Diane Cilento) -- Russell ends up riding a stagecoach with a few of those boarders leaving town. Three others ride with them: Indian agent Professor Alexander Favor ... less