The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid (1972) | Universal

Reviews:

“For my money, “The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid was one of the best films of 1972, and a lot of other critics liked it, too…”(Top Ten of the Year)- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid is easily the best western of the year…Kaufman directs its events with a rousing energy…”—Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune

“The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid…is a wonderfully lucid and vivid film about the time. The action is set in 1876…The film also has a contagious sense of amazement…Kaufman has made a beautiful, simple film about gaudiness and hope…The film is not really a Western: more than that.” –Penelope Gilliatt, The New Yorker

“Moments of pure farce…Curious, contradictory tenderness…Ambitious and inventive…”—Charles Champlin, LA Times

“…The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid is the kind of first movie so rich in texture and invention that we can look forward to a lot more from Philip Kaufman.” (Top Ten of the Year- “An odd and original western made by Philip Kaufman, the most arresting new talent of the year.) —Jay Cocks, Time Magazine

“Kaufman has gotten a superb group of performances from his actors, who relish the amiable stupidity of his characters and the concise wit of his dialogue…Robert Duvall walks off with the picture…He plays Jesse (James) with manic intensity and inventiveness…”—Michael Dempsey, Film Quarterly

“…a western as refreshing as a Minnesota breeze…The film has a wonderfully fresh air about it…a memory of the excitement we feel when a new talent brings new energy and new talent to a subject… ”—Richard Schickel., Life Magazine