Old Henry

Old Henry

A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the farmer reveals a talent for gun-slinging that surprises everyone calling his true identity into question.

  • Released: 2021-10-01
  • Runtime: 99 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Thrillers, Western
  • Stars: Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze, Gavin Lewis, Stephen Dorff, Trace Adkins, Richard Speight Jr., Max Arciniega, Brad Carter, Kent Shelton
  • Director: Potsy Ponciroli
 Comments
  • page-39409 - 8 January 2023
    Exceptionally weL done
    This is a great "what if" western. I'll not give any spoilers. It is well filmed, superbly acted, and the story and plot line is great. I've watched hundreds of westerns in my life and I have over 200i of them in my DVD collection - I only buy if I really like them and yes I added Old Henry.

    This is easily in the atop 20 all time westerns....possibly Top 15. Considering the great westerns over the past 90 years High Noon, The Searchers, Stagecoach. The Shootist, and Tombstone - this says a lot to be standing next to such pinnacles of western celluloid.

    Be sure to avoid any clips on YouTube as it'll spoil the outcome and ending that the film builds to. I highly recommend it and am sure you'll be glad you watched it.
  • TxMike - 22 November 2022
    Inventive old west story, who the heck is that farmer guy, Henry?
    I can't adequately write my comments without some spoilers, so anyone reading this before seeing the movie probably should skip my last section with the heading "SPOILERS AHEAD."

    Tim Blake Nelson stars as Henry, working his old farm somewhere in the Oklahoma Territory in 1906, helped by his teenage son. To me part of the attraction to a movie like this is Nelson, who is small and looks like a hick, doesn't have the image of a dangerous man. But he turns out to be very dangerous. He had a checkered past, he tells his son he is not proud of everything he did, but now he just wants to live and be left alone. And lead his son in a good direction. Nelson was in his mid-50s when shooting this role.

    Now three strangers show up on horses, looking for a wounded man and a satchel of money. They wear badges and say they are lawmen but Henry suspects they are bank robbers. Nelson is just superb in the role.

    SPOILERS AHEAD: Henry's full name turns out to be Henry McCarty. That was the name that Billy the Kid used. As history tells us Billy was killed in New Mexico in a gunfight in 1881 at the age of 21. However in this story his death was faked and now, 25 years later at the age of 46 he is just "Henry." When everyone figures out who everyone else is there is a wild gunfight in and outside Henry's home. Henry almost survives.