100 Rifles is a film worth seeing for western fans because it's a European shot western which has absolutely no trace of the spaghetti flavor. As I think westerns are best made in America by a mile, this was a pleasant surprise. It also features interracial lovers Raquel Welch and Jim Brown.
Brown is a lawman down with extradition papers looking for Burt Reynolds, mixed racial revolutionary who robbed a bank in Phoenix. But the money was used to buy guns for the Yaqui Indians who are being persecuted and harassed by genocidal general Fernando Lamas. Being the cowboy hero you know that Brown will get involved and having Raquel there is an added inducement.
As mean as Lamas is watching the film I also thought he was rather stupid at times. Reynolds and Brown outwit him at every turn.
Also here are Eric Braeden as Lamas's German adviser and Dan O'Herlihy who runs the new railroad in the Sonora State. O'Herlihy just wants to make sure he's with the winner.
Some question about Brown being both black and a sheriff. Actually during Republican administrations like the Roosevelt-Taft era that 100 Rifles is set in a black US marshal would have been not so uncommon in those times. In anyway he's as tall in the saddle as John Wayne ever was.
Fans of the three leads will like 100 Rifles and you might become a fan of any or all of them upon seeing this film.
Brown is a lawman down with extradition papers looking for Burt Reynolds, mixed racial revolutionary who robbed a bank in Phoenix. But the money was used to buy guns for the Yaqui Indians who are being persecuted and harassed by genocidal general Fernando Lamas. Being the cowboy hero you know that Brown will get involved and having Raquel there is an added inducement.
As mean as Lamas is watching the film I also thought he was rather stupid at times. Reynolds and Brown outwit him at every turn.
Also here are Eric Braeden as Lamas's German adviser and Dan O'Herlihy who runs the new railroad in the Sonora State. O'Herlihy just wants to make sure he's with the winner.
Some question about Brown being both black and a sheriff. Actually during Republican administrations like the Roosevelt-Taft era that 100 Rifles is set in a black US marshal would have been not so uncommon in those times. In anyway he's as tall in the saddle as John Wayne ever was.
Fans of the three leads will like 100 Rifles and you might become a fan of any or all of them upon seeing this film.