Judge Roy Bean

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A classic offbeat western
"The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" is hard1y a milestone for Huston...
The Law West of the Pecos
The most surrealist film of John Huston!
A timeless treasure by one of Hollywood's greatest directors

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Starring: Ned Beatty , Fred Brookfield , Jim Burk , Gary Combs , and Bennie E. Dobbins
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Release Date: 2003-06-03

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A remarkable blend of otherwise disparate philosophies about legendary men, this 1972 film was inspired in part by the epic dimensions of a John Milius (The Wind and the Lion) script, which was toned down by Paul Newman's charmingly eccentric approach to the title character, who in turn was deepened by director John Huston's sensitivity to the subject of fleeting dreams. The story concerns the famous outlaw-turned-lawmaker who rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town. The film follows the quirky Bean's episodic adventures as the years pass and a variety of colorful characters come and go, including the muse who captivated his soul, the actress Lily Langtry (Ava Gardner). Huston's textured approach has an almost Altmanesque feel to it, though he demands more (and rewardingly so) obvious performances from the cast, particularly a hilarious cameo by Stacy Keach as the one tough-as-nails SOB who makes Bean a tad nervous. Highly entertaining. --Tom Keogh

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Roy Bean's life for a span of 30-odd years is recorded with all the excitement of the era.

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A classic offbeat western.......2007-02-15

This is one of my all time favorite western movies. I recommend it to Paul Newman fans and western fans. Notable for first appearance of Victoria Principal.

"The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" is hard1y a milestone for Huston..........2006-11-06

Bean rides into Vinegarroon, Texas in 1890, and is prompt1y beaten, robbed and hanged by degenerate outlaws and whores... The rope breaks, and he returns, shooting everyone in revenge... Then he declares himself "the Law West of the Pecos," makes the saloon his courthouse, and swears to uphold the honor of his ideal, the beautiful British actress, Lily Langtry...

He takes Marie, a Mexican girl (Victoria Principal), as his mistress, and administers justice by hanging men and confiscating their property to make the town (renamed Langtry) prosperous... Eventually, the community turns against him, and Bean rides out, defeated...

Twenty years later, in 1925, the town is run by Prohibition gangsters and evil oil men... Out of nowhere, Bean, now seventy, appears and purges the town by shooting the criminals...

In a sense, Newman comes full circle from his first Western, in which Billy the Kid also said, "I am the law," and fought evil by becoming judge, jury and executioner... But whereas Billy was a neurotic, pitiful adolescent, Bean is presented as an admirable, mystical character... The real Bean died in 1903, and scriptwriter John Milius presumably changed the date in order to contrast the wild individualist with impersonal twenties gangsters: even though he's a killer, he does it with style...

The film tries to make Bean another lovable character on the order of Butch Cassidy: he hangs and shoots men while quoting the Bible and delivering wisecracks, and he punctuates their deaths with punch lines...

Newman does his best with the material... His funniest scenes are with a huge bear named Bruno, who, like Bean, is grizzly, guzzles beer and deals violently with outlaws; at one point he delightfully evokes Bean's wrath by drunkenly licking Lily's poster... In William Wyler's "The Westerner," Walter Brennan as Bean upstaged Gary Cooper; here Bruno upstages Newman... In any case, the outrageous gallows humor and broad caricatures fail to disguise the fact that unlike Butch, Bean is a vicious fellow...

"The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" is hard1y a milestone for Huston, who portrayed hopeless dreamers more effectively in films like "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and "The Asphalt Jungle."

The Law West of the Pecos.......2005-12-04

Solidly entertaining, whimsical biography of the hangin' judge west of the Pecos. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN stars a growly and bearded Paul Newman in the title role, guide to the life of a legend of the Old West and host to a revolving series of guest stars.

`Whimsical' seems kind of an odd word now that I think about it. After all, it connotes a lightness of spirit, and that's a hard choice of words to use for a movie that features an on-screen hanging or five. `Whimsy' is defined as `an odd or fanciful or capricious idea,' and `whimsy' begets `whimsical', which is made of sturdier stuff that its pappy - `Whimsical: adj. Erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability.' I'll let the word stand. John Huston's JUDGE ROY BEAN is erratic and unpredictable enough. John Milius wrote the original screenplay. With movies like `Jeremiah Johnson' and `Geronimo: An American Legend' among his credits, Milius has given ample evidence that he's a `print-the-legend' type of writer. And he takes his heroes seriously. Underneath everything - and everything piles high in this movie - there's a script that wants to make a legendary hero out of its title character.

That serious intent is subverted by Newman, whose charm is unsuccessfully buried beneath a beard and gruff exterior, and Huston, who peppers the whole thing with darkly humorous vignettes. In fact, JUDGE ROY BEAN is more or less a series of disconnected incidents, from Bean's massacre of a bar full of desperados who rolled him for his (stolen) cash and left him for dead to his circa 1920 explosive showdown with an unscrupulous eastern lawyer played by Roddy McDowell. In the interim he appoints himself judge, the law west of the Pecos, peppers the bar with posters of the beloved Lily Langtry (Ava Gardner,) adopts a black b'ar dropped off by Grizzly Adams (John Huston,) takes up with pretty young Marie Elena (Victoria Principal,) and witnesses an assortment of quirky cutthroats pass under the shadow of his well-worn noose.

If Milius wanted to plant Bean next to Geronimo and Jeremiah Johnson in the pantheon of American legends he must have cringed when Stacy Keach appeared for his twenty-minute segment. Gigged out in white pancake make-up and an Edgar Winters' fright wig, Keach plays the albino outlaw Bad Bob, who's so tough he drinks boiling coffee directly out of the pot. Bad Bob has come to call Judge Bean out, and hurls a series of insults about Lily Langtry in the attempt. I liked the darkly, surreally, humorous Bad Bob character, but he doesn't belong in a movie that's trying to keep things real. Worse, much, much worse, is the `Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' like musical interlude, also known as `Picnic with the B'ar.' Newman, Principal, and their 300-pound black bear co-star cavort along the Pecos River, accompanied by Andy Williams singing the saccharine "Marmalade, Molasses and Honey." I don't know for a fact, but I believe "Marmalade, etc." effectively killed the use of cheesy musical interludes in the middle of westerns. If it didn't, it should have.

The most surrealist film of John Huston!.......2004-12-01

Once upon a time in Texas a roguish Judge :Roy Bean magnificent acted by Paul Newman . And also a weird preacher : Anthony Perkins and an albino gunman named Stacy Keach .
Blend this cocktail and you will obtain a clever, ironic and unencumbered film winking to Luis Buñuel.
Watch this hidden and treasured movie .

A timeless treasure by one of Hollywood's greatest directors.......2002-12-14

The 60's and early 70's produced several great comedic westerns i.e. Cheyenne Social Club, Dirty Dingus Magee, McClintock, Great Scout, The Rounders, Evil Roy Slade, Support Your Local, etc. The list goes on and on. Those movies were all great, but pretty much one dimensional and set the tone for some collective disappointment over the content of Judge Roy Bean.

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Judge Roy Bean Volume 1 (Color) Alpha Video Release.......2007-06-30

Alpha Video has released 4 Color Episodes of the 1950's Tv Show Judge Roy Bean Starring Edgar Buchanon (of Petticoat Junction Fame). Judge Roy Bean Upholds Law & Order in the land West of the Pecos River along with his niece Letty (Jackie Loughery) & Deputy Jeff Taggard (Jack Buetel). The acting is superb and the stories really hold your interest.
The First episode: "Black Jack (Episode #8)" has some splices in the show and the color is rather faded, but it is still a watchable episode.
The next 3 Color episodes have nice color and can be viewed with no problems. "Letty Leaves Home (Episode #13)", "Slightly Prodigal (Episode #7)", The Fugitive (Episode #12)"
This series ran for 39 episodes in 1955-56 and 3/4 of the entire run exists on various DVD Releases. There is no complete set released as of June 2007. So you can purchase most of it inexpensively via the internet.
This is a must for any fan who enjoys those old TV Western Shows.

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Judge Roy Bean
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TVG Westerns: Judge Roy Bean
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1956, 6 Episodes, B&W and COLOR Starring: Edgar Buchanan, Jack Buetel, Russell Hayden, Jackie Loughery This wonderful collection of TV Guide Presents Great Westerns features six episodes of the exciting `50s series, Judge Roy Bean, whose title character is a no-nonsense storekeeper-turned-judge of the little Texas town of Langtry. The whole family will love Judge Roy Bean, a fun-loving Western about a good man's obligation to create order in an otherwise lawless town of brawling bandits and rustlers! JUDGE ROY BEAN ? ? 1 BAD MEDICINE BLACKJACK BORDER RAIDERS CHECKMATE CITIZEN ROMEO CONNIE COMES TO TOWN

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Judge Roy Bean, Vol. 2
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Release Date: 2006-06-27

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Judge Roy Bean, Vol. 1
Starring: Judge Roy Bean
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Release Date: 2005-01-11

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Reel Values TV Classics, Vol. 3 (Judge Roy Bean / Sergeant Preston of the Yukon)

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Interesting programs, poor transfers...

Reel Values TV Classics, Vol. 3 (Judge Roy Bean / Sergeant Preston of the Yukon)
Starring: Edgar Buchanan , Jack Buetel , Jackie Loughery , and Russell Hayden
Director: Earl Bellamy , William A. Berke , Thor L. Brooks , Reg Browne , and Nate Watt
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Release Date: 2002-06-18

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Interesting programs, poor transfers..........2003-03-20

As with the other offerings in the Reel Values TV Classics set, this one is worth a viewing primarily because the shows being offered are rather rare and hard to find elsewhere on DVD.

That being said, this disc is probably the poorest of the ones in the set that I currently own. The shows are both in color, but the "Judge Roy Bean" transfer is horribly oversaturated to the point of blurred muddiness. "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon" goes in the opposite direction; so pale and washed out, that the color that was originally there becomes somewhat incidental.

Other than that, the shows themselves are a wonderful trip back in time, when shows were simpler and held to a more black and white morality than we have on TV today.

"Judge Roy Bean" features Edgar Buchanan (forever famous as Old Uncle Joe from "Petticoat Junction"), as the famous western figure who bent the Law to suit his own purposes. Naturally, the show makes Bean out to be a hero, when real history paints a darker picture of the man. Regardless, the show is fun, and one of these episodes even features the western star Lash La Rue as a black hat (he actually appeared in several episodes of this series).

Shot on location at Pioneertown, a western movie set location in Southern California that was used for many film and TV westerns, the show has both an air of accuracy and absurdity. Jack Buetel, Russell Hayden (co-founder of Pioneertown), and Jackie Loughery round out the regular cast.

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Episode Titles.......2006-01-26

Episodes are:
1. The Judge of Pecos Valley
2. Eyes of Texas
3. Family Ties

Not bad, but not really my cup of tea.

Reviewed by Kathie Freeman, author of "Catwalk", a feline adventure story.

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