Bite the Bullet (1975)

Description

Nominated For Two 1975 Academy Awards: Best Music (Original Score); Best Sound Bite the Bullet is an epic Western adventure featuring an amazing award-winning cast. Directed by Robert Brooks (In Cold Blood; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof); the film's turn of the century tale of high stakes and harsh tests of endurance glorifies the kind of gutsy men and women who built this country. Two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman plays a former roughrider who matches wits with a lovely but shady lady in distress (Oscar nominee (Candice Bergen). Academy-Award winner James Coburn (1997 Best Supporting Actor; Affliction) is a drifting ex-cowboy who joins a grueling 700-mile race and competes against a young; reckless cowboy (Jan-Michael Vincent); a haughty English sportsman (Oscar nominee Ian Banner); and a gutsy Pony Express rider (Oscar winner Ben Johnson; 1971 Best Supporting Actor; The Last Picture Show). boy (Jan-Michael Vincent), a wealthy British sportsman (Ian Bannen), and a Pony Express rider (Ben Johnson). As the disparate band of competitors sets out on the harsh and grueling desert ride, each person is forced to respect one another and work together as they endure a wide variety of dangerous conditions. This episodic tale features gorgeous cinematography of miles of barren and lone wasteland shot in contrast to the live-wire pageantry of the race, teeming with gritty scenes of the rough wild West full of hucksters, hustlers, and bawdy barmaids whooping it up until dawn.