Hannie enlists the aid of bounty hunter Tom Price to teach her how to be a gunfighter so she can hunt down the 3 men who killed her husband and raped her.
Raquel Welch
Hannie Caulder
Robert Culp
Thomas Luther Price
Ernest Borgnine
Emmett Clemens
Jack Elam
Frank Clemens
Strother Martin
Rufus Clemens
Christopher Lee
Bailey
Diana Dors
Madame
Stephen Boyd
The Preacher (uncredited)
Paco de Lucía
Guitarist on veranda (uncredited)
Aldo Sambrell
Mexican soldier (uncredited)
Director, Screenplay
Burt Kennedy
Characters
Ian Quicke
Characters
Bob Richards
Screenplay
David Haft
Story
Peter Cooper
February 17, 2014
8
I spit on your Oats!
Ah sue me! I think it's great. Raquel Welch plays Hannie Caulder, a gorgeous cowgirl who is raped and left widowed by three scuzzy brothers played by Ernest Borgnine, Strother Martin and Jack Elam. Hell bent on revenge, Hannie hooks up with smooth bounty hunter Thomas Luther Price (Robert Culp excellent), learns how to fire weapons and pursues her quarry to the day of reckoning.
That is it, it is what it is, Welch is stunningly beautiful and sexy and director Burt Kennedy wastes no opportunities to capitalise on this fact. If we are honest she's miscast, but it really doesn't matter, nor does finding Christopher Lee in the picture as a wily old gunsmith!
The mix of humour with a rape revenge storyline is a little uncomfortable at times, but not insultingly so, while Kennedy has a good eye for action. Edward Scaife photographs (Panavision) pleasingly out of Almería in Spain, and Ken Thorne's musical score trundles along without intrusion.
It's off-beat, even unique, and while it misses the chance to be a feminist Western of some standing, there's a real good time to be had here for those willing to buy into the daftness of it all. 7/10
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$0.00
Revenue:
$0.00