Willie Nelson is Lee Walker and Kris Kristofferson is Jesse Ray Torrence, former ex-Confederates who find themselves riding the vengeance trail together.
That’s because a fellow former Confederate renegade named Holden has finished an eight-year prison term, considers his old gang members responsible and has just tracked down and killed a peaceful rancher named Tobey (Waylon Jennings).
He wants revenge against Walker and Torrence too. A showdown is imminent, because Walker and Torrence want to avenge Tobey too.
But first they come across his son Bryce (Chad Willett), who figures to make his living with his brains rather than his gun.
He doesn’t understand his father’s decision to ride with the likes of Lee and Torrance, but he’s equally determined to bring his father’s killer to justice.
Lee and Torrance decide to take him under their wings, and provide him with a journal that provides insight into his father’s thinking.
The threesome becomes a foursome when a lawman named Dalton (Travis Tritt) joins up. He’s also an old friend of Lee and Torrance, and comes to their rescue after they’ve been implicated in a bank robbery they had no part of.
Kris Kristofferson as Jesse Ray Torrance, looking for the killer of his friend in Outlaw Justice (1999)
Willie Nelson as Lee Walker, finding himself on the vengeance trail in Outlaw Justice (1999)
Review:
Better than average, because Nelson and Kristofferson are so believable as Western outlaws.
And there’s a certain Spaghetti flair to the film, especially the early scene where the old timers encounter saloon patrons who consider them too old to be deadly.
But there’s a bit of silliness too, including Walker’s fleeting romance with a much younger Mexican senorita and the implausible consequences of the final south-of-the-border shootout.
Spoiler alert: There are none, in spite of the high body count and the fact that many of those bodies are wearing Mexican uniforms.
Waylon Jenning’s part as Tobey Naylor amounts to the opening scene in which he is killed.
Chad Willett as Bryce Naylor, finding himself in the company of notorious gunmen in Outlaw Justice (1999)
Travis Tritt as Dalton, the lawman who sides with Torrance and Lee in Outlaw Justice (1999)
Directed by:
Bill Corcoran
Cast:
Willie Nelson … Lee Walker
Kris Kristofferson … Jesse Ray Torrance
Travis Tritt … Sheriff Dalton
Chad Willett … Bryce Naylor
Sancho Gracia … Holden
Jonathan Banks … Sheriff Conklin
Simon Andreu … Col. Lupo
Waylon Jennings … Tobey Naylor
Jorge Bosso … Mayor Hunter
Francis Butler … Picker
May Heatherly … Mrs. Preble
Leonor Watling … Claire
Runtime: 94 min.
aka:
The Long Kill
Sancho Gracia as Holden, looking to get even to those responsible for his prison stint in Outlaw Justice (1999)
Simon Andreu as Col. Lupo, who gets wrapped up in the search for Lee and Torrance in Outlaw Justice (1999)
Memorable lines:
Torrance to Mayor Hunter, as he’s scowling about gunmen in town: “Lest you move your self-righteous butt, this heathen rifle’s gonna blow out your candle.”
Cowboy, being ordered to leave town by Walker and Torrance: “You two might have got away with this 10 years ago. But from where I’m standing, you’re just two old men.”
Torrance: “It could be arranged you won’t be standing.”
Torrance: “This town’s on the wrong side of ugly.”
Torrance, as Bryce struggles with a six-gun: “Nice thing about a knife — it’s hard to shoot your foot off with it.”
Holden to Bryce: “Let’s see if you make the same squealing sound your father made when he died.”
Waylon Jennings as Tobey, facing the vengeance of Holden in Outlaw Justice (1999)
Leonor Watling as Claire, a Mexican villager caught between the good guys and bad in Outlaw Justice (1999)
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Love watching westerns wish I could have been in one I been watching senc I was a kid thank you for sharing .
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I loved this film. Kristofferson and Nelson reversed their usual roles. Usually, in such films as ANOTHER PAIR OF ACES; THREE OF A KIND, Nelson gets the smart-ass lines and Kristofferson gets the girl. In this one, where they may be old, but they are still both rather formidable gunfighters (especially Kristofferson’s character, Jesse Torrance, who goes fully armored with three separate guns and a big Bowie knife), Kristofferson gets the smart-ass lines and Nelson gets the romantic interest. In another very funny scene, Kristofferson, who has every intention of holding up the town’s bank, is casing the joint, and a very nervous bank manager, who is a little concerned about a “customer” who looks like nothing so much as a large black bird of prey — black hat, black shirt, black pants, long black cattleman’s coat, black boots, black leather gloves, and semi-permanent murderously black scowl on his face — approaches him and asks if he can assist him. Kristofferson, having observed that the bank is about as secure as a sieve, actually smiles at him beatifically and drawls …”niiice bank”. Unfortunately, another group of lowdown sidewinders beat Torrance to the bank, and the leader shoots him as they make their escape. To add insult to injury, Torrance, Lee and Bryce Naylor are mistakenly arrested for the crime. Only the intervention of their old pal Travis Tritt (playing town sheriff Dalton) rescues them from being lynched. It is kind of an “in” joke for the film’s “good old boys” cast of real life buddies that Kristofferson, whose bullet wound appears to have fazed him not at all, also played vampire hunter Abraham Whistler in three of the BLADE films. Vampires cannot be killed by ordinary bullets. So is Kristofferson both a vampire and a vampire-hunter? ‘Tis a conundrum.
Claire is the girl in the wagon train, who’s interested in Bryce, not Leonor Watling’s character.