Comes a Horseman - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[beth]

The film cast includes two Oscar winners: Jane Fonda and Jason Robards, Jr.; and two Oscar nominees: James Caan and Richard Farnsworth.

[ava]

Publicity for this this picture stated that the film was the first major speaking role for stuntman and actor Richard Farnsworth, who debuted in a much bigger role at the well-seasoned age of fifty-eight years. Also, in this big debut performance, Farnsworth, who had frequently appeared as an uncredited actor, got Academy Award nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, which was the film's sole Oscar nomination.

[nora]

Debut theatrical feature film of Mark Harmon.

[eli]

After Any Wednesday (1966) and Julia (1977), this was Jason Robards, Jr. and Jane Fonda's third and final film together.

[steve]

Richard Farnsworth's Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominated performance was the only one in the category not in a Best Picture nominee that year.

[sophie]

Frank Athearn's (James Caan's) nickname was "Buck".

[bernard]

Most Western movies are set during the second half of the nineteenth century, with some being set in the first half of the 1800s, but this Western was set in the middle of the twentieth century, in 1945.

[carla]

Jim Davis played a henchman for J.W. Ewing (Jason Robards, Jr.), an unscrupulous rancher who hopes to strike oil on his land. Immediately after completing this film, Davis signed on to play a character named J.R. Ewing, Sr., a.k.a. "Jock" Ewing, a Texas oil baron, and father of the notorious J.R. Ewing, Jr. (Larry Hagman) on the television show Dallas (1978). Davis played the role on Dallas (1978) until his death in 1981.

[sara]

One of several offbeat and revisionist westerns made during the 1970s.

[cameron]

In the saloon bar when Richard Farnsworth and James Caan are talking, then interrupted when a fight starts, Al Pacino, uncredited, is sitting at a table along the wall, wearing a brown military uniform.

[ronnie]

Second of three collaborations between Jane Fonda and Director Alan J Pakula. The movies include Klute (1971), this movie, and Rollover (1981).

[mathew]

To prepare for her role as Ella Connors, Jane Fonda learned roping and riding skills in order to partake in a stampede and cattle-round up in this movie. Fonda would practice at a ranch in the San Fernando Valley and at the filming location in the Wet Mountain Valley of Colorado where Fonda lived on a ranch, worked the cows, polished her lassoing skills, and assessed how ranch land cattle work was organized.

[sara]

One of two twentieth century contemporary western genre pieces that Jane Fonda starred in during the 1970s. The films were this movie and The Electric Horseman (1979).

[scarlett]

Stuntman Jim Sheppard was killed when a horse that was dragging him veered from its course and caused him to hit his head on a fence post. The scene appears in the movie, although it was cut right before Sheppard's fatal accident.

[dustin]

James Caan and Richard Farnsworth appeared in Misery (1990).

[amber]

Before becoming an actor Richard Farnsworth was a stuntman for over 30 years and had doubled for Jane Fonda's father Henry Fonda.