United States Marshal Howard Nightingale is a law and order and publicity man. He doesn't simply capture outlaws. He makes sure a photographer is around to record the arrests and spread his fame. Now Nightingale, who aspires to the Senate, is out to nab his No. 1 prey: cool-witted Jack Strawhorn. "If I don't get him, I don't get elected," he says. Kirk Douglas stars as Nightingale and Bruce Dern is Strawhorn in Posse, an exciting roundup of action, humor and sly political skepticism.
The New York Times review
By VINCENT CANBY
Published: June 5, 1975
"Posse," directed and produced by Kirk Douglas, who is also the star, is a genial, sometimes witty Western about a Texas marshal, Howard Nightingale (Mr. Douglas), who stakes his campaign for the United States Senate on the capture of a notorious outlaw named Strawhorn (Bruce Dern). Although it's a film of action, "Posse" is also something of a morality movie—and a very curious one at that, "Posse" clearly favors the outlaw, who doesn't hesitate to shoot to kill almost anybody, over the marshal, who is politically ambitious and thus evil.
It's one of the ironies of this country, where tremendous ambition is as essential as money in the achievement of political success, that we should automatically consider ambition to be a sin. It's as if we wished that Presidents could be brought by storks.
Mr. Douglas and Mr. Dern have a high old time of it, shooting it out on horseback, foot and, once, on a hijacked train. Mr. Douglas's talents as a director have clearly improved since his maiden effort, last year's "Scalawag," but then the screenplay (by William Roberts and Christopher Knopf) is also much better. This is Saturday afternoon entertainment that needn't be ignored at night.
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