A scene from The Kentuckian.
Saw this when I was a kid. Not such a hot movie, but there's this one scene near the end I have never forgotten. I doubt many of you have seen it so bear with a description:
It’s near the end of the film. A buck-skinned Burt Lancaster and a friend are standing on one side of a wide, shallow stream when two bad guys show up on the other. (Walter Matthau may have been one of them.)
The bad guys fire their muskets, taking out Burt’s friend. Burt returns fire and kills one of the bad guys. For some reason (haven’t seen this in ages) Burt can’t reload, so he pulls a knife and starts running through the water toward the bad guy who can reload and has started.
The scene is shot from behind the bad guy. You see him pouring his powder, then adding his ball, tamping them down
– and all the while Burt’s running like mad, water splashing high around his pounding feet, getting closer and closer –
Then the guy’s priming the fire hole, cocking the hammer
– and Burt’s still closer –
and as the musket rises Burt makes a flying leap and takes the guy down.
Whew!
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