The music tends to grate upon my nerves after a while and I wished for something else to be played! In 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods. Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team. Swedish director Jan Troell attempts to build momentum in this tumultuous relationship, but he does so like a bricklayer. Was this review helpful? He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love. The cinematography and direction were also great. 13 out of 15 found this helpful. An American settler marries an European mail-order bride and together they learn how to thrive in the harsh wilderness while working on their relationship too. 19 out of 25 found this helpful. Hannah Lund (Liv Ullmann) is 32 but lied about being 25. The people of the coastal strip eked a living from their wooded valleys as small-scale cattlemen and dirt farmers. Zandy Allan (Gene Hackman) is a rancher living hard in the Sierra Nevada. The direction tends to slow everything down until the narrative moves at a snail's pace. Zandy's Bride is quite interesting because it deals with a theme that has become relevant again in the 21st century. Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. A Swedish immigrant family struggle to establish a new life for themselves in the forest of Minnesota in the mid 19th Century. Was this review helpful? Zandy's Bride is a unique film, in that its sense of realism is remarkably good. A teenage American girl while visiting her father, is thrown into London society during the "Debutante Season". The lady in question, is nothing more than a mere possession in Hackman's eyes. He has little experience around women other than his mother and treats his new wife rather badly. Their portrayal is how I would have imagined earlier settlers in a harsh, and unforgiving environment to act. One of my favourite actors - Gene Hackman - takes the lead as a farmer of the Old West who takes out an advert in search of a mail order bride. Although I only saw it once, the dramatic intensity and truthfulness of the tale stayed with me. I had read the book, and was looking forward to the movie. Like hers, this movie starts off with an unlikely pair who fall in love eventually after the usual stuff...cheating, overcoming stubbornness, and so on. Was this review helpful? Liv Ullmann's English has greatly improved, though she's still not convincing as a woman "from American stock" and her performance is disappointing; Gene Hackman, cast yet again as a snarling sonuvabitch, is somewhat more suited to the surroundings, but his character has no positive attributes (and watching his 'growth' isn't enlightening or surprising). The visual memory is black and white, though I think the film is in color. It is an interesting character study of two people thrown together, and how they adapt to their new life together. It is a portrait of far west ranch life at its most primal and difficult. 1 out of 1 found this helpful. Just a nice, entertaining and endearing movie that should be thought of and viewed as just that. *1/2 from **** Was this review helpful? His sexism, anger, and controlling character represents the egotism and ignorance of men throughout the ages. With Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann, Eileen Heckart, Susan Tyrrell. Was this review helpful? Their initial meeting out on a street corner in the middle of town is strange but considering what each of these two strangers wanted out of the arrangement I could understand what each expected. Zandy agrees to a financial arrangement for a mail order bride which in the mid 1800's was not unheard of but not common to the area either so Zandy wanted to try and be discrete about the arrangement. Was this review helpful? 17 out of 39 found this helpful. Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. Gene Hackman puts his dramatic acting chops to excellent use in "Zandy's Bride." Desperate to reach the moon first, N.A.S.A. It gets off to a bad start. Was this review helpful? When a millionaire practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs who must carry out his zany instructions to cash in. 30 of 32 people found this review helpful.
Troell is not a formulaic filmmaker, yet this nearly plays like a parody of his earlier "The Emigrants" (with a cartoonish Appalachian-flavored score and by-the-numbers male-female relations). Rugged, impolite frontiersman in Old West Northern California is immediately displeased with his mail-order bride when he sees that she has lied about her age; she's overwhelmed with the remoteness of his shack ("a pigsty") and by her new husband's unwashed, ungainly manner. Beyond the topicality, however, the film is a failure on most other counts. It reminds me of some of the romance novels that I've read, especially those by Maggie Osborne. sends a man and shelter separately, one-way. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin.
0 out of 0 found this helpful. 30 out of 32 found this helpful. Hackman is an actor who is effective by his realism and by his various facial expressions and body language. 10 out of 13 found this helpful. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Zandy's Bride is the story of an unsociable, uncivilised, isolated man who sends for a mail order bride. He answers an ad for marriage. Certificate: M/PG Competent acting. His work during his own emigration to the States would be largely unsuccessful, producing such works as the topical Zandy's Bride and Hurricane (1979).