1991
Storyline - Mitch is a middle aged big-city radio ads salesman. He and his friends Ed and Phil are having mid-life crisis. They decide the best birthday gift is to go on a two week holiday in the wild west driving cattle from New Mexico to Colorado. There they meet cowboy Curly who not only teaches them how to become real cowboys, but also one or two other things about life in the open air of the west.
I saw this film in the theatre with my friends and we loved it, it was well made and very funny throughout.
The opening scene takes place during the Pamplona bull run. Of course to anyone who knows anything about the running of the bulls you can easily tell that the scenes with the actors took place on a back lot somewhere in Hollywood and the bulls they were running with were not toros bravos.
But I do give them credit for filming an entertaining scene and they did weave actual encierro footage to add to it's realism.
And I don't know how many days they had to film to get one particular shot but as you can see in the above photo they actually had someone dressed in a New York Mets uniform and hat run perfectly "in the horns" for an unforgettable addition to the scene.
One final hats off to the film is a classic line that actor Bruno Kirby says describing Jack Palance's character Curly.
"This guy is a cowboy, one of the last real men. He's untamed, a mustang. We're trained ponies, it will do us good to be in his world for awhile."
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