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The Lusty Men
Directed by
Nicholas Ray
Not Rated
1952
1h 53m
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7.3
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81%
6.7
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Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.
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Cast of The Lusty Men
Susan Hayward
Louise Merritt
Robert Mitchum
Jeff McCloud
Arthur Kennedy
Wes Merritt
Arthur Hunnicutt
Booker Davis
Frank Faylen
Al Dawson
Walter Coy
Buster Burgess
Carol Nugent
Rusty Davis
Maria Hart
Rosemary Maddox
Lorna Thayer
Grace Burgess
Burt Mustin
Jeremiah Watrus
Karen Randle
Ginny Logan
Jimmie Dodd
Red Logan
Eleanor Todd
Babs
Robert Bray
Fritz (uncredited)
Lane Chandler
4th Rodeo Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Dennis Moore
Cashier (uncredited)
Marshall Reed
Jim-Bob Tyler (uncredited)
Chuck Roberson
Cowboy
Glenn Strange
Rig Ferris - Foreman (uncredited)
Chili Williams
Bit Part (uncredited)
The Lusty Men Ratings & Reviews
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Nicholas Ray's beautifully layered, black-and-white rodeo picture.
The Nation
Manny Farber
Mitchum is the most convincing cowboy I've seen in horse opry, meeting every situation with the lonely, distant calm of a master cliché-dodger.
Out of the Past
Raquel Stecher
Beautifully shot... plenty of symbolic imagery.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
A key American vision, with Ray's sense of failure and transience and grace pulled together into Mitchum's wink of soulful nonchalance
The Dissolve
Keith Phipps
Portrayed with Ray's usual sympathy for outsiders, the central threesome are decent, flawed romantics .
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Ray's last b/w film captures the life of rodeo players with vivid details, lyrical images, and melnacholy mood, centering on a romantic triangle, well played by Arthur Kennedy, Susan Hayward, and especially Robert Mitchum as the aging champ.
TV Guide
Ray's direction is superb, and all three leads give bravura performances.
Variety
Variety Staff
A somewhat slow starter, once underway it is kept playing with growing interest under Nicholas Ray's firm direction.
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Leo Goldsmith
Functions as mini-ethnography, laying bare the alluring and dangerous world of bronc- and braman-riding, while spinning an artful melodrama about aging, fame, and failure
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
The punch of the film is in its details of rodeo life as it is, and for this R. K. O. and Producer Jerry Wald have a dynamic film.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Ray takes a thin story and enriches it with depth, complexity, and interesting characters.
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
The first few brief sequences in Nicholas Ray's rip-roaring rodeo flick tell us visually almost everything that we need to know about the director's interest in this story.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
A masterpiece by Nicholas Ray -- perhaps the most melancholy and reflective of his films.
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