[1980] THE LONG RIDERS: This was Walter Hill's followup to The Warriors and it's not as great as that but it's good. The gimmick casting involved casting some Carradines as the Younger brothers and the Keach brothers as the James brothers. (There's some Quaids in there too.) I think this was Walter's love letter to Peckinpah, at least in the action sequences--they're slo-mo and there's closeups of people shooting and bodies slowly falling to the ground. Plotwise it's nowhere near as nihilistic as a Peckinpah, as Hill is interested in exploring the family tensions angle of the end of the James-Younger gang. Jesse (James Keach) is more or less a supporting character in this thing--the real meaty stuff is given to David Carradine as Cole Younger. I hate thinking I have to like him now just because he was great in Kill Bill (he's definitely the most talented Carradine of his generation--Keith and Robert are kind of useless in this,) but he's good in this too as the leader of the Younger boys. Stacy Keach is Frank James--again, why was he never a bigger star?--and the Stacy-David interactions are quite good, as Walter is pushing the theory that the gang broke up due to Frank's loyalty to his crazy brother, and Cole's loyalty to his useless, none-too-swift brothers. Oh, and I loved that Hill made sure to acknowledge the fact that the Civil War was still a gaping wound at the time of the James and the Youngers--everyone's still either a rebel or a damn yankee, and it's another piece of the motivations of everyone involved. It's a well thought out film and there's good performances--there's worse things you could spend your time on.