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Article: A trip to the way-out West; WILL SELF ON FILM.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 22, 2004
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Byline: WILL SELF
Blueberry*
Cert 15, 124 mins
ERNEST Borgnine has made 142 films and Blueberry is his 142nd. In it, he gets to play a US marshal confined to a wheelchair. You can only wonder what he was thinking when he made that call to his agent: "At last! At the age of 77 I get to play the role I've always wanted! And in a western inspired by a cod-philosophic French comic strip no less - oh lucky, lucky me!"
The presence of Borgnine - a great journeyman actor - isn't by any means the oddest bit of casting in this peculiar farrago. Eddie Izzard camps it up as the avaricious German mountebank Prosit, proving once again that ...
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