A Sheriff, who negotiates with bank robbers, ends up getting his family killed during their escape. The Sheriff chases the gang into Mexico on his own. While attempting to exact his vengeanc... Read allA Sheriff, who negotiates with bank robbers, ends up getting his family killed during their escape. The Sheriff chases the gang into Mexico on his own. While attempting to exact his vengeance, he is at odds with a Mexican lawman.A Sheriff, who negotiates with bank robbers, ends up getting his family killed during their escape. The Sheriff chases the gang into Mexico on his own. While attempting to exact his vengeance, he is at odds with a Mexican lawman.
- Deputy Bill
- (as Bill Bryant)
- Directors
- Barry Shear
- Samuel Fuller(uncredited)
- Writers
- Samuel Fuller(uncredited)
- Lukas Heller
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaOne day during shooting, the stuntman needed for various scenes called in sick. There was no time to bring in another stunt double to the location in Mexico, so Rod Taylor, Richard Harris and Al Lettieri convinced the director they could do the stunts themselves. Harris wound up scraping off several inches of skin while making a tackle and Lettieri broke a finger by smashing through a door. Riding at a full gallop, Taylor was required to fall off his horse, which he did, and it was lucky that director Shear got it in one take because Taylor suffered a dislocated shoulder.
- GoofsWith the final member of the gang, the killing is done with a shotgun. At no time in the movies did the sheriff have any gun other than a pistol or Winchester.
- Quotes
Katharine Kilpatrick: [as Sean sits with dead bodies of his wife and child he thinks back to Kevin's birthday] Come now, Sean. After all, it's the boy's birthday, and he has his heart set on it.
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick: Katharine, I don't care if it's the boy's birthday.
Katharine Kilpatrick: It's only a toy gun. *All* little boys want toy guns.
Kevin Kilpatrick: Why can't I have a gun, Daddy?
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick: 'Cause you can't reason with a gun, Kevin. I know it's hard for you to understand. If you have a gun, then another person wants to have a gun, and then another and another. And pretty soon, everyone has to live with a gun - that's very, very bad. We must not allow guns to do our thinking for us.
Kevin Kilpatrick: I don't wanna hear anymore! You're a mean daddy, and I don't love you anymore.
- Alternate versionsThe original UK cinema version was heavily cut by the BBFC to edit blows and punches from fight scenes, closeups of bloodied faces and a gunshot to a man's groin. The 1988 Warner video release featured the same cut print.
There is a vastness to the production with a gritty feel, children in distress and some really despicable characters. The Hero's change of heart from pacifist to killer is abrupt as are some of the other plot devices that take a backseat to the carnage and and mayhem.
It does have a memorable feeling to it that seems to stem from the movie's outrageous flourishes and one wonders if this was probably the best they could cobble from all the changes in Directors and other on the set strife. The good cast, however, are all in top form.
After all, it is recommended for fans of Westerns and movie chronology. It is a definite piece of postmodern cinema that is having difficulty (although not always aware) finding its niche and as a lot of seventies films show, it was not an easy transition as the art-form was released from over thirty years of repression.
- LeonLouisRicci
- Sep 9, 2012
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- Budget
- $1,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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