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Silverado is an American Western feature film, first released on July 10, 1985. It was directed by Lawrence Kasdan and written by Lawrence and Mark Kasdan. The movie features an ensemble cast including Kevin Kline as Paden, Scott Glenn as Emmett, Danny Glover as Malachi "Mal" Johnson, Kevin Costner as Jake, and Brian Dennehy as Cobb.
The final line of Silverado, "We'll be back!", shouted by Costner as he and Glenn ride 'into the sunset', has had countless fans wishing that a follow-up movie had been made (a 1999 nationwide video poll chose Silverado as the film "Most Deserving of a Sequel"), but time has eliminated that possibility.
Tagline: Get ready for the ride of your life.
Plot overview
Four "lawful outlaws"—Paden (Kline), Emmett (Glenn), Jake (Costner) and Mal (Glover)—meet and travel to Silverado, where they thwart a corrupt rancher and the ruthless sheriff who is on the rancher's payroll.
Featured Cast
Though this film received little attention at the time of its release, it featured a cast full of actors that would go onto achieve high-profile careers. Even more notable is that some of these actors were not unknowns—they already had established careers. Assembling so much Hollywood talent into one film is something of a rarity.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Rosanna Arquette | Hannah |
| Ray Baker | Ethan McKendrick |
| John Cleese | Sheriff John T. Langston |
| Kevin Costner | Jake |
| Brian Dennehy | Sheriff Cobb |
| Jeff Fahey | Deputy Tyree |
| James Gammon | Dawson |
| Scott Glenn | Emmet |
| Danny Glover | Malachi 'Mal' Johnson |
| Jeff Goldblum | 'Slick' Calvin Stanhope |
| Earl Hindman | J.T. Hollis |
| Linda Hunt | Stella |
| Brion James | Hobart |
| Richard Jenkins | Kelly |
| Kevin Kline | Paden |
| Marvin J. McIntyre | Clerk at Cavalry Post |
| Joe Seneca | Ezra Johnson |
| Pepe Serna | Scruffy, McKendrick Hand |
| Lynn Whitfield | Rae Johnson |
| Amanda Wyss | Phoebe |
Awards
Silverado's score by Bruce Broughton was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score in 1985. It lost to Out of Africa.
1986 Academy Awards (Oscars)
- Nominated - Best Original Score — Bruce Broughton
- Nominated - Best Sound Mixing — Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O'Connell, David M. Ronne
1986 Casting Society of America (Artios)
- Nominated - Best Casting for Feature Film: Drama — Wallis Nicita
Trivia
- Lawrence Kasdan offered the Jake role to Kevin Costner in part to make up for having cut Costner's scenes in The Big Chill.
- Earl Hindman plays Wilson on "Home Improvement" (1991) where the lower half of his face is always obscured.
- Catch phrases
- Emmett: "I had to get up anyway."
- Mal: "Now I don't want to kill you and you don't want to be dead."
- Sheriff Langston: "Today, my jurisdiction ends here."
- Cobb: "Welcome to heaven."
- Dawson: "Mister, I don't know any of those names. You're about to die."
- Paden: "Bad luck."
- Mal: "That ain't right."
- Stella: "The world is what you make of it."
- Jake: "Yeah, I kissed a girl, and this other fella didn't like it, so we had some words."
- Emmett: "Well, if we don't you can keep my brother."
- Calvary Sgt: "I had a gal do that to me. It didn't make her my wife."
- John Cleese's first line: "What's all this then?" is a direct reference to the words often uttered by law enforcement officers who entered the scene of a crime in Monty Python's Flying Circus.
External links
1985 films | Action films | Comedy films | Western films | Films directed by Lawrence Kasdan
"Silverado"