Viggo Mortensen follows a classic cowboy code in the Western Appaloosa: Speak softly and carry a big honkin' gun. As an Old West lawman, Mortensen packs a booming eight-gauge shotgun in Appaloosa, ...

Viggo Mortensen, left, and Ed Harris take care of business in the Harris-helmed Western 'Appaloosa.' Legend has it (because "the studio-provided production notes have it" just doesn't sound Western-y ...

“Course he’s willing to die. You think we do this kinda work ’cause we scared to die?” So speaks Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) about his sidekick Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen), as the two stare down a ...

Mortensen's understated and nonlinear second feature privileges the female perspective, pushing back on the violent tropes of studio Westerns like 'Appaloosa.' That nonlinear narrative choice in an ...

Halfway through the film, evil rancher Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons) eludes the practiced clutches of lawman Virgil Cole (Ed Harris). “I told you you’d never hang me,” Bragg boasts, and Virgil replies, ...

In “Appaloosa,” Ed Harris, who also directed, plays a stoical marshal for hire. He’s Virgil Cole, who tells his pal, played by Viggo Mortensen, that his close companions have been a squaw and horse, ...

TORONTO (AP) -- Viggo Mortensen follows a classic cowboy code in the new movie Western "Appaloosa": Speak softly and carry a big honkin' gun. As an Old West lawman, Mortensen packs a booming ...