Silverado

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Silverado
Silverado DVD Cover
Directed by	Lawrence Kasdan
Produced by	Lawrence Kasdan
Written by	Lawrence Kasdan Mark Kasdan
Starring	Kevin Kline Scott Glenn Kevin Costner Danny Glover Brian Dennehy
Music by	Bruce Broughton
Cinematography	John Bailey
Editing by	Carol Littleton
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	July 10, 1985
Running time	127 minutes
Language	English
Budget	26 million USD
IMDb profile

Silverado is an American Western feature film, first released on July 10, 1985. It was directed by Lawrence Kasdan and written by Lawrence and Mark Kasdan. The movie features an ensemble cast including Kevin Kline as Paden, Scott Glenn as Emmett, Danny Glover as Malachi "Mal" Johnson, Kevin Costner as Jake, and Brian Dennehy as Cobb.

Tagline: Get ready for the ride of your life.

1 Plot overview
2 Featured cast
3 Awards
4 Trivia
5 External links

[edit] Plot overview

Four "lawful outlaws"—Paden (Kline), Emmett (Glenn), Jake (Costner) and Mal (Glover)—meet and travel to Silverado, where they thwart a corrupt rancher and the ruthless sheriff who is on the rancher's payroll.

[edit] Featured cast

Actor	Role
Rosanna Arquette	Hannah
Ray Baker	Ethan McKendrick
John Cleese	Sheriff John T. Langston
Kevin Costner	Jake
Brian Dennehy	Sheriff Cobb
Jeff Fahey	Deputy Tyree
James Gammon	Dawson
Scott Glenn	Emmet
Danny Glover	Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
Jeff Goldblum	'Slick' Calvin Stanhope
Earl Hindman	J.T. Hollis
Linda Hunt	Stella
Brion James	Hobart
Richard Jenkins	Kelly
Kevin Kline	Paden
Marvin J. McIntyre	Clerk at Cavalry Post
Joe Seneca	Ezra Johnson
Pepe Serna	Scruffy, McKendrick Hand
Lynn Whitfield	Rae Johnson
Amanda Wyss	Phoebe
Ray Baker	Ethan McKendrick

[edit] Awards

Silverado's score by Bruce Broughton was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score in 1985. It lost to Out of Africa.

1986 Academy Awards (Oscars)

Nominated - Best Original Score — Bruce Broughton
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing — Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O'Connell, David M. Ronne

1986 Casting Society of America (Artios)

Nominated - Best Casting for Feature Film: Drama — Wallis Nicita

[edit] Trivia

Lawrence Kasdan offered the Jake role to Kevin Costner in part to make up for having cut Costner's scenes in The Big Chill.
Earl Hindman, who plays J.T. (the brother-in-law of Emmett and Jake), plays Wilson on the television series Home Improvement, although he is hardly recognizable since a running gag of the series is to always obscure his face.
The final line of Silverado, "We'll be back!", shouted by Jake as he and Emmett ride into the sunset, has had countless fans wishing that a follow-up movie had been made (a 1999 nationwide video poll chose Silverado as the film "Most Deserving of a Sequel"), but time has eliminated that possibility.
Catch phrases:
- Paden: "Bad luck."
- Mal: "That ain't right."
- Stella: "The world is what you make of it."
Other memorable lines:
- Emmett: "I had to get up anyway."
- Mal: "Now I don't want to kill you and you don't want to be dead."
- Sheriff Langston: "Today, my jurisdiction ends here."
- Cobb: "Welcome to heaven."
- Dawson: "Mister, I don't know any of those names. You're about to die."
- Jake: "Yeah, I kissed a girl, and this other fella didn't like it, so we had some words."
- Emmett: "Well, if we don't, you can keep my brother."
- Calvary Sgt: "I had a gal do that to me. It didn't make her my wife."

John Cleese's first line: "What's all this then?" is a direct reference to the words often uttered by law enforcement officers who entered the scene of a crime in Monty Python's Flying Circus.