Lawrence Kasdan directs Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn and Danny Glover in this comedy western where band of misfit friends come together to right the injustices which exist in a small town.

This is a forgotten “classic” (pre-revisionist) Western told with a mid Eighties blockbuster sensibilities. Beautiful light, caper-ish heroics, a true sense of kinetics, everyone gets to be a movie star. The first hour of hooking up and episodic adventure set pieces are a whole lotto fun, the more plot focussed second half in Silverado ain’t quite the same lark or as memorable. Stands out today as an early household name making role for Kevin Costner (playing against type as a jovial young buck) but it is Glover and Brian Dennehy who steal your heart.

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Perfect Double Bill: Pale Rider (1985)