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Actors: Mark Valley, Leon Coffee
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Jericho |
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Jericho is an interesting mix of gunfights and mystery in a western setting. The movies starts off with a payroll robbery where the local sheriff is killed. One of the robbers is badly injured during the commission of the crime. The robber's jump on a train and head out of town . Jericho (Mark Valley) is thrown from the train by two of the robbers. He is later found by Joshua aka Preacher (Leon Coffee) who nurses him back to health other than Jericho suffering from amnesia.
The two become fast friends and embark on adventures throughout the Southwest. This includes gunfights in bars, with Spanish cattle rustlers, panning for gold and barroom brawls. The whole time, Jericho is disturbed by flashback of memories and he longs to find out the truth about his past including the identity of a mysterious woman he keeps seeing. He believes that he is responsible for the death of the sheriff. Eventually, he decides to return to the small town where it all began to confront the truth of what happened that fateful night.
--Talea, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Jericho |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Very difficult--no foreshadowing/clues
Time/Era of Movie:
- 19th century
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 70%
Murders of set profession?
- criminals
Special suspect?
- amnesiatic
Western
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- cowboy
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Southwest
Prairie?
Yes
Small town?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- guns
Any profanity?
- None
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