Sam Elliott has one of the most recognisable voices in American film and has spent fifty years playing cowboys, veterans and men who deliver hard truths in a low register.
The Big Lebowski gives him the Stranger, who narrates and then admits he does not know what the narration is about. Tombstone and Road House fill out the genre work, and A Star Is Born brought a Best Supporting Actor nomination at seventy-four for a single sustained close-up in a truck.
Ben GazzaraRoad House (1989) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A philosophy graduate is hired to clean up a Missouri bar and ends up fighting a monster truck. It took five Razzie nominations, underperformed in cinemas, and became…
Bill PaxtonTombstone (1993) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The credited writer was fired a month into shooting, the credited director may not have directed it, and the result is the most quotable Western ever made. Val Kilmer…
Jeff DanielsGettysburg is four hours and fourteen minutes of Civil War battle filmmaking and it earns every minute. Tom Berenger plays James Longstreet.
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