Silverado

A misfit bunch of friends come together to right the injustices which exist in a small town.

• Director: Lawrence Kasdan
• Genre:Action / Western
• Runtime:133 minutes

Cast

Kevin Kline : Paden
Scott Glenn : Emmett
Kevin Costner : Jake
Danny Glover : Malachi ‘Mal’ Johnson
Marvin J. McIntyre: Clerk at cavalry outpost

Four “lawful outlaws”—Paden (Kevin Kline), Emmett (Scott Glenn), Jake (Kevin Costner) and Mal (Danny Glover)—meet and travel to the town of Silverado, where they thwart a corrupt rancher and the ruthless sheriff who is on the rancher’s payroll.

The film opens with a gunfight; Emmett kills three henchmen of a man named Ethan McKendrick (Ray Baker) (though Emmett does not know it at the time), whose father Emmett had killed five years before. Emmett has recently been released from prison for the killing. As he travels to the town of Silverado, he finds a man, Paden, lying near death in the desert. The men Paden had been riding with had robbed him of nearly everything and left him to die.

Emmett and Paden ride to the town of Turley to meet Emmett’s brother, Jake, who has been jailed unfairly for killing a man in self-defense. Paden is also jailed when he finds the man who stole his Colt pistol and hat and kills him. Emmett breaks the two of them out of jail and the three escape with the help of Malachi Johnson, a black sharpshooter who was run out of town by Turley’s overzealous sheriff, expatriate Englishman Langston (John Cleese).

After helping a wagon train of settlers recover their stolen cash from a group of thieves and leading them to Silverado, the group disbands to find their relatives, or, like Paden, settle into the town. The story line then develops the classic range war plot common in both Western American history and fiction. Emmett and Jake learn from their sister’s husband, the federal land agent for the area, that McKendrick is attempting to maintain the open range, which he will dominate with his enormous herds of cattle, by driving all lawful claimants under the United States Homestead Act off the land through violence carried out by his paid henchmen. Mal finds his father’s farm has been overrun by cattle, and his father has been driven from his land onto a nearby mesa, where he hides in a cave. Read more

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