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 enlarge | Director: Tab Murphy
Actors: Tom Berenger, Barbara Hershey, Kurtwood Smith, Steve Reevis, Andrew Miller
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Category: Video
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  108 reviews
Sales Rank: 27
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 118
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6303951031
UPC: 026359120237
EAN: 9786303951034
ASIN: 6303951031
Theatrical Release Date: September 8, 1995
Release Date: November 12, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 A Western Fantasy September 7, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Very moving, drama with humor. I believe the acting is top-notch, the settings are magnificent, the music touches me deeply. The characters are very believable. (I've watched it three times this past weekend!) The only thing I found iffy was the narration interspersed throughout the film. At times it was enlightening but at times it became distracting. However, overall, one of my all time favorites.
Escape To The Oxbow September 7, 2005
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I really liked this movie. Tom Berenger is excellent as Lewis Gates, a modern day bounty hunter/tracker (I'm still bummed that USA Network cancelled 'Peacemakers') with a tortured past.
Berenger lives with his dog Zip in meager surroundings. He still mourns the loss of his wife in a drowning accident which Sheriff Deegan (Kurtwood Smith), who incidently is the girl's father, holds him responsible for but immediate needs require Berenger's skills as a tracker to retrieve 3 criminals who escaped into the Oxbow region of Montana only to be killed with what appears to be genuine Native American arrows of 100 years ago.
Berenger's quest, along with his trusty dog Zip, brings him in touch with Dr. Lillian Sloan (Barbara Hershey), an expert on Native American interests, and together (they fall in love, of course) they discover Native Americans who have lived for the last 100 years hidden from the rest of modern society.
The initial meeting and interaction with the tribe is tenuous as best but civility and respect prevails, and both sides are soon won over by the other.
When Yellow Wolf's (Steve Reevis) son gets sick, Berenger goes back into town to acquire the needed medicine. The resulting action of Sheriff Deegan and his posse chasing Berenger, and Berenger's desire to keep the posse from discovering the secret of the Oxbow is well filmed and enjoyable with an ending that is very satisfying.
The scenery is fantastic and the quality of sound on the DVD version is worth the price of admission alone.
This movie wanted me to 'go native' and embrace a simpler lifestyle - highly recommended.
 Interesting movie that could have been better *spoilers* August 1, 2005
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
If only it were true. A tribe of Cheyenne manage to survive for a century deep in the American wilderness isolated from the rest of the world, all the while maintaining much of their traditional lifestyle. Thanks to Lewis Gates (Tom Berenger) that all could change. After three fugitives he's been hired to track down meet a mysterious death, he becomes convinced that there may actually be Indians out there. So along with Dr. Sloan (Barbara Hershey), an anthropologist who's devoted her life to the study of the Cheyenne, he sets out to find whatever is out there. And find it he does, and nearly gets killed because of it. However, presumably because Dr. Sloan can speak passable Cheyenne, they, unlike all of the other outsiders who have encroached on the Cheyenne's territory, are allowed to live. They become, therefore, witnesses to an unreal spectacle, a real and functioning traditional Indian village in modern America. But when Lewis Gates returns to civilization in order to obtain medication for an ailing Cheyenne, he obtains this medication in such a way that a posse is formed in order to track him down, and, just as importantly, find out what it is that he's out in the wilderness he's looking for. As such, something that he's come to value--the Cheyenne and their traditional ways--has potentially become compromised because of his 1) typical Anglo-European need to explore, investigate and understand the unknown, and 2) typical Anglo-European lack-of-concern-for-consequences problem-solving techniques. But, of course, everything does turn out right in the end.
Overall, Last of the Dogmen is an entertaining movie. My only real complaint is that more time should have been devoted to the Cheyenne village, and I think the lack of development of bonds between Lewis Gates and Dr. Sloan and the Cheyenne detracts somewhat from the movie.
Still, in the end, a movie very much worth seeing.
Pretty Good June 20, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was pretty good. Kinda like "Dances With Wolves", but not as intense. The emphasis is on emotion and character building, rather than action, so it can seem slow to adrenalin junkies (my mood swings both ways). Of course, the inevitable happens, but it is presented it in a positive mode. Decent family movie to discuss tolerance and okay movie for a date.
Evocative! April 20, 2005
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is such a fine film, both quiet and unassuming. Perhaps these qualities are what set it up as an easy target for the professional reviewers when it was first released. It was released by a small studio and fresh director, which also made it easy fodder. A film like this tends to show the soft under-belly of worthless reviewers, most of whom are nothing more than cattle following perceived tastes of their readership. I hope Tab Murphy directs again, although petty reviewers seemed intent on preventing this possibility. Squashing one of the finest films? Reviewers are often the lowest of the low, incapable of independent thought, and certainly incapable in the creative process. How many of them could make a film? (Sorry for the rant.)
A film like this appeals to the better side of our nature, and offers rare rewards. The viewer would have to be capable of enjoying a fantasy, and falling in synch with the director's intention. I've seen reviews by prickly and vaguely prejudiced people, reacting to the alleged revisionist message that white man - bad and Indian - good. No, this movie is a fantasy, supposing the existence of a survived Cheyenne tribe and held in great value by the two white people making the discovery. Naturally, their goal becomes to preserve and protect something of rare and incalculable value from our exploitive world.
This film is very moving, and stands up to repeated viewings. It should have been wildly popular, but was stopped by the same people who promoted Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. Fortunately, when purchasing DVDs, we have a forum like this. My recommendation is to buy one for yourself and another for someone you love.
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