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- “The Jack Bull” is “based upon a true story,” although you won’t find the underlying legend in any history of the Wild, Wild West. The source is the fact-based German novel “Michael Kohlhaas,” by Heinrich von Kleist, originally published in 1808.
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The Jack Bull is a 1999 American Western television film directed by John Badham and written by Dick Cusack, loosely inspired by Heinrich von Kleist's 1810 novel Michael Kohlhaas. It stars John Cusack, John Goodman, L. Q. Jones, Miranda Otto, and John C. McGinley, and aired on HBO on April 17, 1999.
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“The Jack Bull” is “based upon a true story,” although you won’t find the underlying legend in any history of the Wild, Wild West. The source is the fact-based German novel “Michael...
The Jack Bull: Directed by John Badham. With John Cusack, John Goodman, L.Q. Jones, Miranda Otto. After being wrongfully denied justice, a horse trader seeks his own justice on a treacherous rancher.
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- Drama, Western
- John Badham
- 1999-04-17
Based on a Saxon chronicle that later served as the basis for the 19th century German tale “Michael Kohlhaas,” “The Jack Bull” is a look at how the best of intentions can have the worst of...
Jun 29, 2020 · Based, so they say, on a true story, and also using Michael Kohlhaas, a novella by the friend of Goethe and Schiller Heinrich von Kleist (1777 – 1811), who wrote The Marquise of O, the screenplay, or teleplay, was written by Dick Cusack and starred Dick’s son John.
The Jack Bull ★★½ 1999 (R) Cusack's father adapted a 19thcentury Ger man novel, “Michael Kohlhaas” by Hein rich Von Kleist, into a 19thcentury American western, set in Wyoming. Myrl Red ding (Cusack) is a peaceful horse trader who demands justice when wealthy land owner Henry Ballard (Jones) beats two of Redding's horses and their ...
Dec 10, 2016 · John Cusack is Myrl Redding, a horse breeder trying to make a living in the wilds of Wyoming. He butts heads with Henry Ballard (L.Q. Jones), who runs the nearby town, hates the idea of statehood and figures what he says should go.
