I'm a Sam Elliott fan ... and this was a good movie, but perhaps not in keeping with the other fine films that he has appeared in, such as The Quick and the Dead, or Connagher, where his abilities to portray a specific type of
character really showed up well. I think his portrail of a real life character in You Know My Name, sort of limited
what he could put into the role ... and of course, nobody likes to see the good guy get killed, even though the bad guy that did the killing eventually gets his in the end. Reminds me of John Wayne in the Cowboys ... the film wasn't so much about Wayne's character as it was about the young boys, and of course when the Duke bit the dust the film was really over ... ditto Elliott in this role.