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In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. Dreamlike and gritty by turns, the two films would prove their maker’s adeptness at brilliantly deconstructing genre. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman, they feature overlapping casts and crews, including Jack Nicholson in two of his meatiest early roles. The films—The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by vigilantes for crimes they did not commit—are rigorous, artful, and wholly unconventional journeys into the American West.
Collector’s Set Includes
THE SHOOTING
Monte Hellman 1966
In this eerie, existential western directed by Monte Hellman and written by Carole Eastman, Warren Oates and Will Hutchins play a bounty hunter and his sidekick who are talked by a mysterious woman (Millie Perkins) into leading her into the desert on a murkily motivated revenge mission.
RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND
Monte Hellman 1966
Working from a thoughtful script by Jack Nicholson, Monte Hellman fashioned this moody and tense western about a trio of cowhands who are mistaken for robbers and must outrun and hide from a posse of bloodthirsty vigilantes in the wilds of Utah.
Disc Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
- Actors: Jack Nicholson, Millie Perkins, Cameron Mitchell, Harry Dean Stanton
- Directors: Monte Hellman
- Format: Blu-ray, Widescreen
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Rated: G (General Audience)
- Studio: Criterion Collection (Direct)
- DVD Release Date: November 11, 2014
- Run Time: 82 minutes
In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. Dreamlike and gritty by turns, the two films would prove their maker’s adeptness at brilliantly deconstructing genre. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman, they feature overlapping casts and crews, including Jack Nicholson in two of his meatiest early roles. The films—The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by vigilantes for crimes they did not commit—are rigorous, artful, and wholly unconventional journeys into the American West.
Collector’s Set Includes
THE SHOOTING
Monte Hellman 1966
In this eerie, existential western directed by Monte Hellman and written by Carole Eastman, Warren Oates and Will Hutchins play a bounty hunter and his sidekick who are talked by a mysterious woman (Millie Perkins) into leading her into the desert on a murkily motivated revenge mission.
RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND
Monte Hellman 1966
Working from a thoughtful script by Jack Nicholson, Monte Hellman fashioned this moody and tense western about a trio of cowhands who are mistaken for robbers and must outrun and hide from a posse of bloodthirsty vigilantes in the wilds of Utah.
Disc Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
- New 4K digital restorations of both films, supervised by director Monte Hellman, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentaries on both films, featuring Hellman and film historians Bill Krohn and Blake Lucas
- New interviews with actors John Hackett, B. J. Merholz, Millie Perkins, and Harry Dean Stanton, assistant director Gary Kurtz, and chief wrangler Calvin Johnson, all in conversation with Hellman
- New conversation between actor Will Hutchins and film programmer Jake Perlin
- New video essay on actor Warren Oates by critic Kim Morgan
- PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Atkinson
- More!
New cover by John Gall
