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The Long Riders

Western

Directed by Walter Hill

The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge. From TMDB

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The Long Riders is a 1980 western film, directed by Walter Hill, starring David Carradine, Keith Carradine and Robert Carradine.

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  • priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2026

    lot of folks talking about Revenge of the Nerds and Lizzie McGuire today, but my Robert Carradine recs are Walter Hill's The Long Riders and Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One (iffy trailer, great movie)

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  • 🎃 ƚԋҽ ԋαυɳƚιɳɠ σϝ Aʅҽx˚Jҽɾι⛦ @mobiusstrip8.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 4, 2026

    The Long Riders ⁞1980 www.imdb.com/title/tt0081071 #NowWatching #filmsky ·the origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge·

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2025

    #NowWatching THE LONG RIDERS (1980). Director: Walter Hill. Have always enjoyed genius casting here...real acting brothers play famed brothers of Old West. James & Stacy Keach as Jesss & Frank James David, Keith & Robert Carradine as Younger gang Randy & Dennis Quaid as the Millers #filmsky 📽

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  • Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 23, 2026

    I love The Long Riders. That casting: Carradines, Guests, Quaids, Keachs. I don't think any other movie has prominently featured 4 sets of real life brothers. And it worked.

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  • Pam K Nail @pknail.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 4, 2025

    #Junesploitation Day 3 - David Carridine! Today I'm doing a first watch of LONE WOLF MCQUADE! (Pre-movie trailers: Delta Force, The Long Riders) @fthismovie.bsky.social www.fthismovie.net/2025/05/anno...

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  • Dan BANSHEEhan @dansheehan.memyon.orgBluesky · Apr 12, 2026

    5. THE LONG RIDERS Sets the all-time record with four sets of siblings in one movie: David Carradine, Keith Carradine and Robert Carradine; James Keach and Stacy Keach; Dennis Quaid and Randy Quaid; Christopher Guest and Nicholas Guest 7/7 Please reply with your thoughts on this week's game!

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  • Tony Lee @pigasuspress.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2026

    Another Carradine gone. I remember him from Walter Hill's classic western THE LONG RIDERS. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe... #RobertCarradine

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  • Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2024

    We could argue about which is Walter Hill's best film all night, but The Long Riders is a strong contender.

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  • Jeremy Dauber @jeremydauber.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    And we're off, with MOVIE NO. 43 in our chronological tour through the American movies of the 80s - and this one's a real family Western: it's the story of Jesse James in May 1980's THE LONG RIDERS!

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  • Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 8, 2026

    But that run in the 70s/80s is wonderful. Hard Times, The Driver, The Warriors, The Long Riders, Southern Comfort, 48 hrs, Streets of Fire, and Extreme Prejudice. Great film after great film; and all films I've seen countless times. Admittedly, I've seen Streets of Fire more than the rest combined.

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  • Bas Langereis @bazbo.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 20, 2026

    #NP #NowPlaying: Ry Cooder - 'The Long Riders - Original Sound Track' (1980) (2014 remaster) Another excellent #RyCooder film score. Lots of tex-mex, cajun and americana again. Wonderful, wonderful. Way too short, though.

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  • metacritic @metacritic.comBluesky · Jul 20, 2025

    Walter Hill's The Long Riders [68] www.metacritic.com/movie/the-lo... #11pmspecial "The Long Riders is still the best Western in many years -- it has the laconic elegance of a ritual." - David Ansen, Newsweek

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  • Scarlett Freya Starck @scarlettfreya.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2025

    “The Long Riders” … genius casting

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  • David 🎃👻🧟 @uniquely-david.bsky.socialBluesky · May 27, 2026

    Feeling majorly like a melding of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch & Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid, I enjoyed The Long Riders The decision to cast actual acting brothers as real-life brothers might seem gimmicky, but it gives the film a more realistic, close-knit feel that this story requires #FilmSky

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  • Dave Paiz @cdpaiz.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2026

    Random Scenes from Another Life: RIP Robert Carradine (The Long Riders, Revenge of the Nerds) Shown here with yours truly at the 2010 Loft Film Fest @theloftcinema.bsky.social

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2025

    #EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025 November 27 - movie or TV character played by David Carradine Cole Younger - The Long Riders #filmsky #moviesky

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  • Bill-a Lugosi's Dead @neokefka99.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 19, 2025

    From a 1980 issue of FILM COMMENT being interviewed aobut THE LONG RIDERS. Full article posted here on the Sam Peckinpah fan group on Facebook: www.facebook.com/SamPeckinpah...

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  • Sam Inglis @24fpsuk.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2025

    Favorite film from your least favorite genre? I've been getting into Westerns with a friend curating them for me, and I've been trying to discover War movies, but they are historically my least favourite genres... Western: The Long Riders War: The Cranes Are Flying

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  • Westerns & the Old West @davidlambertart.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2024

    My favorite is The Assassination of Jesse James, then The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, then The Long Riders. Ride with the Devil doesn't feature Jesse James, but is an excellent film that shows what Jesse's time as a teenaged Confederate guerilla was probably like. Cheers! 🤠🍻🤠 & God bless 🙏

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  • Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2024

    Okay, now onto The Long Riders... which also has an incredible cast but for different reasons

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  • Rodney Brown @ Wicked Comic Con 2026 @firstpersonshooter.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2026

    Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old. The Long Riders is so close, but it has to be:

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  • LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 22, 2026

    The Long Riders (3/11) Movie CLIP - Cut the Cards (1980) HD youtu.be/LcHtYOV0bVo?...

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  • Andrew Crowder @awatayama.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 26, 2026

    The Long Riders - Flawed but brilliant movie. Side note: Randy Quaid plays a POS, which is perfect. Goddammit. I thought that at 71, doubts about self-worth would’ve been outlived. Old samurai notion: If it’s more painful to live than to die, it’s your DUTY to live. Poor RC. Sorry for his people.

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  • Jon of the 80s @nostalgiajon.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2026

    Good film been a while since I've seen it. I also like The Long Riders where him and his brothers played the Younger gang

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  • Scariest thing? Dealing with insurance! @robbykarol.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 21, 2025

    THE LONG RIDERS is interesting because it is clear in the movie that the James-Younger gang members still idealized the Lost Cause, but also suggests that the Youngers at least are emphasizing that at the end to get sympathetic treatment in the press.

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  • Your Honor, pls @mrmambo.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 27, 2026

    He got a little practice in The Long Riders, backing up his older brothers. Pretty amazing film too.

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  • David 🎃👻🧟 @uniquely-david.bsky.socialBluesky · May 27, 2026

    Just found The Long Riders on Prime Video (famous for its casting of 4 sets of acting brothers) & since it's leaving the platform in less than a week, giving it a watch #FilmSky

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  • Matthew @oceansage771.bsky.socialBluesky · May 19, 2026

    I wrote a film review for Walter Hill's Western crime drama The Long Riders (1980) starring the Carradine Brothers, Quaid Brothers, Keach Brothers, & Guest Brothers. boxd.it/eqfH2v

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  • billybuddweiser.bsky.social @billybuddweiser.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 9, 2026

    David Carradine's life was troublesome, oftentimes on the wrong side of the law, his murky misadventures ending in Bangkok in shameful ignominy. He is superb in Walter Hill's The Long Riders. When they said he stole the film he said, "No, I took it fair and square." youtube.com/watch?v=gVUs...

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  • Andrew @madman731.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 25, 2026

    The Long Riders walked so that movie could run, love both

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  • Kurt Phillips @kurtphillipstx.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2026

    Everyone knows him fro revenge of the Nerds but Robert Carradine was also in one of my favorite westerns, The Long Riders. My absolutely favorite cast of a movie. All brothers playing brothers. RIP.

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  • Sam Inglis @24fpsuk.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2026

    But The Long Riders is, apparently, on MGM+ and that has the bonus of being a great movie as opposed to... y'know, Revenge of the Nerds.

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  • Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 5, 2026

    My paternal grandparents, who did not really engage with culture, bought a VCR in like 1983 and rented The Long Riders. It is as far as I know the only movie they ever watched using their VCR.

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  • Ultán @kaospheric.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2025

    Film 461 for '25 ▶️ The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robber brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge: #NowWatching "The Long Riders" (1980) #Film #PhysicalMedia #Bluray

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  • Stephen @sfdegraff.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 28, 2025

    Played by Stacy Keach in The Long Riders. His brother James played Jesse. Also in the movie were 3 Carradine brothers as the Younger brothers and 2 Quaids as the Miller brothers. Two Guest brothers played the Ford brothers. Everything goes wrong in Northfield, Minnesota.

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  • GWYNDOLIN "Gal" GRAVES @gwyngraves.gayBluesky · Feb 15, 2025

    we watched The Long Riders a couple years back when gfgraves was on her western kick and writing her western script. I think my da recommended it to us; good movie!!

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  • Mark Wylie @markwylie001.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 14, 2025

    Along with The Long Riders, my fave Walter Hill film.

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  • Point of Impact Publishing @pointofimpactbooks.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 11, 2025

    Oh man, I love Streets of Fire. My favorite Hill movie...closely followed by The Warriors. I hope it held up for you! Need to rewatch The Long Riders myself. It's been a hit minute for that one.

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  • Warren Money @warrenmoney.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 3, 2025

    I’d go a classic. I mean I’m sure that there has got to be one John Ford film that you haven’t seen. Have you see The Long Riders?

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  • Westerns & the Old West @davidlambertart.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 20, 2024

    I had a thing for Uschi Digard at the time, so I was extra disappointed when she wasn't as "prominent" as I would've liked. This film actually has an interesting connection to The Long Riders that'll probably get into at some point. Cheers! 🤠🍻🤠

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  • deb412.bsky.social @deb412.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 16, 2024

    How can anyone have just one favorite movie???? Western: The Long Riders, Drama: The Godfather Comedy: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Rom Com: You’ve Got Mail Musical: West Side Story AND every Cary Grant movie ever made oh, and Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers too!

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  • Frank Pozen Toronto, Canada @frankp316.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    @willmckinley.bsky.social Music/movie birthday. George Bohanon 1937-2024. Jazz trombonist was a member of Motown's studio musician group The Funk Brothers. Moved to Los Angeles and played on the films True Grit (1969), The Long Riders (1980).

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  • Wuchak @WuchakTMDB reviews · Jul 27, 2026

    Realistic, Grim, Mature, Modern Western (actually an Eastern) Walter Hill's "The Long Riders" is about the James-Younger Gang, former Confederate bushwhackers in Missouri during the Civil War who kept on fighting after the conflict. The movie details the events over the next sixteen years during which the gang robbed banks, trains, and stagecoaches in Missouri, Kentucky, Iowa, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, West Virginia and Minnesota. The ill-fated Northfield, Minnesota, bank robbery on the first…

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  • internettheo2.bsky.social @internettheo2.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 8, 2026

    “Southern Comfort” is maybe the best one I’ve seen. “The Warriors” is a perfect action movie imo although its reputation as a cult film weirdly hurts its appreciation. I still need to see The Driver and The Long Riders, Johnny Handsome and Extreme Prejudice.

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  • PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.bsky.socialBluesky · May 10, 2026

    You know - as someone who loved the movie "The Long Riders", I was willing to extend a bit of grace to all the brothers involved. Carradine, Quaid, Keach or Guest. But since David died bringing auto-erotic asphyxiation into the tabloid mainstream, none of them have been the same since.

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  • Ian McClellan @ianmac.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2026

    One of my favourite of his film roles was when he played Bob Younger in ‘The Long Riders’ which is one of my top 5 westerns. He appeared alongside his two brothers Keith as Jim Younger and David as Cole Younger. youtu.be/G475pylIBio?...

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  • It can’t be allowed to happen again @student1962.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 29, 2026

    Incidentally they also have the James gangs dusters and clothing from the Northfield raid where most of them got shot. If you have not seen the movie The Long Riders I recommend it. It is a very careful historical fiction film about the James gang.

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  • Paul Scollon @scollon.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2026

    Watched THE LONG RIDERS just last week. Good movie 👍

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  • IamEdG (he/him) @iamedgtoday.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 2, 2025

    The casting for Walter Hill’s The Long Riders was the GOAT: all brothers onscreen played by real brothers, and a great film to boot.

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  • Sam Inglis @24fpsuk.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2025

    25: Walter Hill (AMAZING 5 film run between 1978 and 1982, good stuff afterwards too) The Driver Trespass The Long Riders

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  • Mike Thompson @mikethompson059.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 14, 2025

    It was no The Long Riders, but it was pretty enjoyable. I thought Young Guns II was much better. And you were spot on about getting in new movie posters. Seeing the UPS driver walk in with a couple of those tubes was like it was my birthday.

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  • Gary Cummins @garyinscotland.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2025

    We covered John Wayne Oaters right through to Spaghetti Westerns and beyond to later art house stuff like Heaven's Gate (one of my favourites) and The Long Riders. Tonight I watched The Sisters Brothers. Beautifully lit and paced. I think Jean would have loved this... www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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  • Sam Inglis @24fpsuk.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2025

    The Long Riders Great gimmick casting real groups of brothers as the various brothers in this excellent action western. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsMw...

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  • Nick Brown @geezer22.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2025

    What a brilliant film. Rewatched last year sometime and loved as much as i did when it came out. Love Walter Hill. Might watch The Long Riders again soon.

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  • Jon Smalldon @jonsmalldon.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2025

    I am watching The Long Riders. An excellent film it is making me look up the actual stories of the James-Younger Gang *and* make me want to listen to a lot of Ry Cooder.

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  • 🧿 Mr. Record 🧿 @mrrecord.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 28, 2024

    #Thanksgiving movie #1 The Long Riders

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  • J.K. Kurosawabury @kislingconnection.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 24, 2024

    I'm seeing a lot of The Long Riders around here lately and I just want to remind everyone that when I read the credits on this film I thought I was having a stroke.

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  • Peter Miller @pjmxxx.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2024

    THE LONG RIDERS (1980) - wot a gr8 film, a fine addition to the Jesse James genre.

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  • Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2024

    Watching THE LONG RIDERS (1980), directed by Walter Hill. The movie is about the James/Younger Gang and details a bit about their lives leading up to their deaths. The novelty in this take is that Hill cast 4 families of brothers in each role; the Keaches, the Carradines, the Quaids, and the Guests

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  • Syp @sypster.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 25, 2024

    The Long Riders (1979) – Crime as a family business #westerns #westernmovies #70smovies

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