100 Rifles

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100 Rifles
100 Rifles (movie poster).jpg
Directed by Tom Gries
Produced by Marvin Schwartz
Written by
Starring
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography Cecilio Paniagua
Edited by Robert L. Simpson
Production
company
Marvin Schwartz Productions
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release dates
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  • March 26, 1969 (1969-03-26)
Running time
 110 min.
Country United States
Language English
Budget $3,920,000[1]
Box office $3.5 million (US/ Canada rentals)[2][3]

100 Rifles is a 1969 western directed by Tom Gries based on Robert MacLeod's 1966 novel The Californio, and stars Jim Brown, Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch and Fernando Lamas. The film was shot in Spain. The original music score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith.[4]

Plot

In 1912 Sonora, Mexico, Lyedecker (Brown) is an Arizona lawman who travels to a remote village looking for Yaqui Joe (Reynolds), a half-Native, half-white bank robber who has stolen $6,000 (in Arizona) to buy 100 rifles for his Yaqui people who are being repressed by the government.

Lyedecker is not concerned with Yaqui Joe's cause of helping his tribe, and all he cares about is getting the money returned to a Phoenix bank within his jurisdiction. The two men escape to the hills where they are joined by Sarita (Welch), a beautiful Indian revolutionary. They eventually become allies and fight for the Indians.

Taking over the leadership of the Yaquis, Lyedecker ambushes Verdugo's train while Sarita distracts the attention of the soldiers on board by taking a public shower. The train is later derailed in a town and the culmination of the film is a fierce gun battle which Yaqui Joe and his people finally win.

Cast

Locations

Filmed in Almeria, Spain.

Production

"I was playing Yanqui Joe, supposedly an Indian with a moustache," said Reynods. "Raquel had a Spanish accent that sounded like a cross between Carmen Miranda and Zasu Pitts. Jimmy Brown was afraid of only two things in the entire world: one was heights the other was horses. And he was on a horse fighting me on a cliff. It just didn't work."[5]

See also

References

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External links

  1. ↑ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p255
  2. ↑ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p231
  3. ↑ "Big Rental Films of 1969", Variety, 7 January 1970 p 15
  4. ↑ Clemmensen, Christian. Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004) tribute at Filmtracks.com. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
  5. ↑ Workaholic Burt Reynolds sets up his next task: Light comedy Siskel, Gene. Chicago Tribune (1963-Current file) [Chicago, Ill] 28 Nov 1976: e2.
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