"Draw", a neat western

[jrdudas]

I stumbled on to a neat western the other day; the title is "Draw".  It was made in 1984 and must have been one of Kirk Douglas's last movies before his stroke.  Also starred James Coburn as a retired sheriff who had turned into a drunk.  The movie successfully walks the fine line between  comedy and  drama.  Douglas plays a reformed criminal who won some money fairly in a poker game and the loser raises a fuss once he finds out who Douglas is.  The local sheriff gets killed accidently by Douglas and the story goes on from there.  I won't tell you how it ends, but the ending makes you question some of the conclusions you had accepted earlier in the film.  A bit like the old Peter Sellers movie "Being There", which is one of my favorites.

JR

[RRio]

Yeah, I remember that movie. I liked it. I believe I had taped it from HBO.

[Free Hand]

i really enjoyed it. It was well done in all respects, paticularly the rather unconventional ending. I felt it to be a respectful bit of fun about the old west, and a subtle hint of it's soon demise.

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