Starring: Sam Elliott, Arliss Howard, Carolyn McCormick, James Gammon, R. Lee Ermey Directed By: John Kent Harrison Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC Label: Turner Home Ent Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 30, 2006 Running Time: 94 minutes Theatrical Release Date: August 22, 1999
Product Description: In six months the population of Cromwell Oklahoma has climbed from 500 to 10000. Boom times have come to the oil-rich town. So has a new breed of criminal. You Know My Name is the fact-based story of Bill Tilghman a lawman and former partner of Wyatt Earp confronted by an emerging era when outlaws run whiskey instead of cattle and are likely to tote a tommy gun as carry a six-gun. An ideally cast Sam Elliott plays Tilghman whose life takes on a newfangled wrinkle of its own. Tilghman makes a moving picture of his Old West exploits; and the success of that silent film The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws spreads his reputation like a brushfire. But that reputation may mean nothing to a thug (Arliss Howard) who hides behind a badge.Running Time: 94 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. UPC: 053939758122 Manufacturer No: T7581
Amazon.com: Cromwell, Oklahoma, 1924: an oil boomtown full of saloons, cathouses, mud-and-crude-oil streets, bootleg whisky, and gun-toting roughnecks. Technology had overpassed the Old West, in the form of Model T's and oil rigs, but the mentality had stayed much the same. Add to that a population that's a bit tweaky from a combination of cocaine and morphine that had been going around, and you have a recipe for trouble. Enter Marshall Bill Tilghman, a contemporary of Wyatt Earp. Tilghman had made a silent film, The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws, and on the strength of his reputation had been called into service as chief of police in the hopes of restoring order to a lawless community. In this fact-based story, Sam Elliott plays Tilghman, a larger-than-life character who was one of the last of a dying era. Many Prohibition agents became renegades in the '20s; Tilghman's nemesis was Wiley (Arliss Howard), a rogue agent strung out on drugs and dealing in bootleg liquor himself. Howard's performance is as overwrought as Elliott's is restrained; together the two offset each other well. The flinty Elliott brings a measure of warmth to his role, especially in his relationship to his wife and kids; he's perfectly cast as the man on the cusp of a new age. As a modern-era Western, You Know My Name rises well above its made-for-cable roots to stand as a good character study and action picture. --Jerry Renshaw
You know my name Sam Elliott never made a bad movie that I've seen. Love his eyes and the way he cocks his head.
The Real Cowboy Sam Elliot is the quinessential cowboy and the movie was excellent about a real-life quinessential cowboy.
The Last of the Great Frontier Lawmen Bill Tilghman was the last of the old frontier lawmen still working as a peace officer in the 1920's. At a time when Bat Masterson was a sportswriter for a New York newspaper and Wyatt Earp was a movie consultant in Hollywood, Tilghman was working as a special agent for the Governor of Oklahoma. This story picks up as he is talked into leaving that post to tackle the taming of Cromwell, Oklahoma, a wild oil boom town. It details that last few months in the life of the man Bat Masterson called "The greatest of us all."
It's hard to imagine anyone other than Sam Elliot doing this role. He closely matches the pictures of Tilghman late in life, and his portrayal matches the character of the man in every way. He manages to show not only the rawhide-tough lawman, but also the devoted husband and father, with a few glimpses of the man who was not out of place in the seats of power.
There are a few historical inaccuracies in the film, but that is to be expected; it is nearly impossible to condense months down into movie length without losing some detail. In my opinion it is still the most accurate of the western "bio-pics" that have been made in the last few years. Most have heard of the Earps, Cody, Masterson, and Hickock, but far fewer know of Tilghman. This film should go a long way to correcting this, as Tilghman was truly one of the giants in the taming of the lawless elements of the frontier west. I highly recommend this movie; anyone watching it will come away not only entertained, but with a better appreciation of one of the most highly regarded men this country has ever produced.You Know My Name
You know my name?? Not Sam's best movie. It was entertaining enough, just seemed over the edge with the guy chasing the bootleggers. You would think someone would inform Washington about a drug addict agent and a murderer! I would have put a bullet in the guy's head first thing and threw him down a well and got on with the movie on a different note.
Its worth the money for some, I am a big Elliot fan, but not to excited about this one.
Good movie but sad. A very good movie about a real lawman but a very sad ending. Sam Elliott does a very good job acting, but he's good in almost all of his movies.
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