Silverado
Theatrical release poster
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, John Cleese as Sheriff John T. Langston and Brian Dennehy as Cobb. Silverado may refer to: Chevrolet Silverado, a full-size pickup truck Silverado, an American western film from 1985 The Silverado Galaxy, officially named NGC 3370 Silverado, California, USA, an unincorporated community Category: ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 388 × 599 pixelsFull resolution‎ (450 × 695 pixels, file size: 77 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This image is of a poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher or the creator of the work... Lawrence Kasdan (born 14 January 1949, Miami, Florida) is an American movie producer, director and screenwriter. ... Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning American stage and film actor. ... Theodore Scott Glenn (born January 26, 1941) is an American actor known for appearing in supporting roles. ... Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American film actor, director and producer. ... Danny Lebern Glover[1] (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. ... Brian Dennehy (born July 9, 1938) is a two-time Tony Award-winning American actor who has appeared in movies, on television, and performed in live theater. ... Bruce Broughton (born March 8, 1945 in Los Angeles, California) is a film, video game, and television soundtrack composer who has composed several highly acclaimed soundtracks over his extensive career, including Homeward Bound and Silverado, as well as the video game Heart of Darkness (game). ... John Bailey (cinematographer) (born 10 August 1942 in Moberly, Montana) is an award-winning American cinematographer and film director. ... Carol Littleton (born in 1948 in Oklahoma) is the Academy Award-nominated American feature film editor of the heartwarming blockbuster, the Steven Spielberg-directed film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial as well as editor of several other popular films (such as The Big Chill and Body Heat). ... The Columbia Pictures logo from 1993 to the present Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. ... is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... USD redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A reel of film, which predates digital cinematography. ... is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Back to the Future, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson Rambo: First Blood Part II, starring Sylvester Stallone Rocky IV, starring Sylvester Stallone The Color Purple, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Adolph Caesar Out of Africa, starring Meryl Streep and... Director Herbert Brenon with actress Alla Nazimova on the set of War Brides, 1916 A director is a person who directs the making of a film. ... Lawrence Kasdan (born 14 January 1949, Miami, Florida) is an American movie producer, director and screenwriter. ... Screenwriters, scenarists, or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning American stage and film actor. ... Theodore Scott Glenn (born January 26, 1941) is an American actor known for appearing in supporting roles. ... Danny Lebern Glover[1] (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. ... Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American film actor, director and producer. ... Cleese redirects here. ... Brian Dennehy (born July 9, 1938) is a two-time Tony Award-winning American actor who has appeared in movies, on television, and performed in live theater. ...

Tagline: Get ready for the ride of your life.

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.

The film opens with a gunfight; Emmett kills three men, henchmen of a man named Ethan McKendrick (though Emmett does not know it at the time), whose father Emmett had killed a few years before. Emmett has recently been released from prison for the killing. As he travels to the town of Silverado, he finds a man, Paden, lying near death in the desert. The men Paden had been riding with had robbed him of nearly everything and left him for dead. This article is about arid terrain. ...

Emmett and Paden ride to the town of Turley to meet Emmett's brother, Jake, who has been jailed unfairly for killing a man in self-defense. Paden is also jailed when he finds the man who stole his Colt pistol and hat and kills him. Emmett breaks the two of them out of jail and the three escape with the help of Malachi Johnson, a sharpshooter who was run out of town by Turley's overzealous sheriff. Self defense refers to actions taken by a person to defend onself, ones property or ones home. ... For other uses, see CMC. Colts Manufacturing Company (CMC--formerly Colts Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company) is a United States firearms manufacturer founded in 1847. ...

After helping a wagon train of settlers recover their stolen cash from a group of thieves and leading them to Silverado, the group disbands to find their relatives, or, like Paden, settle into the town. Emmett and Jake hear from their sister's husband that Ethan McKendrick is attempting to seize all the land surrounding the town for cattle ranching. Mal finds his father's farm has been overrun by McKendrick's men and cattle, and his father has been driven illegally from his land & into a nearby mesa, where he hides in a cave.

The group soon discovers that the town sheriff, Cobb, an old friend of Paden's, is on McKendrick's payroll and is defending the actions of the cattle rancher's thugs. Emmett, Jake and Mal decide to fight back and Paden is left to decide whether to keep the lucrative job Cobb has offered him or pursue justice.

Featured cast

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Awards

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

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

Trivia

DVD cover for the film

• 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. At one point, J.T. is gagged, in a manner similar to the "face-hiding" that Wilson used.
• 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.
• 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.
• Kevin Costner owns a casino in Deadwood, SD called the Midnight Star, after the saloon in the movie. He had wanted to name the casino Silverado, but there was already a casino by that name in Deadwood.

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External links

• Silverado at the Internet Movie Database