100 Rifles (1969) |
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| Director(s) | Tom Gries |
| Producer(s) | Marvin Schwartz |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Drama, Western |
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Raquel Welch
(as Sarita)
Burt Reynolds
(as Yaqui Joe Herrera)
Fernando Lamas
(as General Verdugo)
Dan O'Herlihy
(as Steven Grimes)
Aldo Sambrell
(as Sgt. Paletes)
Akim Tamiroff
(as General Romero)
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100 Rifles (1969) was a Adventure - Western Film directed by Tom Gries and produced by Marvin Schwartz.
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One of my latest low-priced DVD pickups is the 1969 Western 100 RIFLES, starring Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, and Burt Reynolds. 100 RIFLES, despite being a 20th Century Fox movie, was filmed entirely in Spain, where many Spaghetti Westerns were being made at the time. 100 RIFLES tries very hard to see... Read full article
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Though this movie was filmed in Almeria, Spain, it is not actually a spaghetti western. Only a parts of this movie were influenced by that western sub-genre such as the opening titles. Burt Reynolds' previous movie Navajo Joe was a spaghetti western, the only one he did.
In both of the 1960s big screen westerns where Burt Reynolds plays an Indian character, he is called Joe. He is Navajo Joe in Navajo Joe and Yaqui Joe Herrera in 100 Rifles.
This movie was apparently one of the first movies to feature a sex scene between people of different races. They were African-American Jim Brown and white American Raquel Welch.
Burt Reynolds plays a half-breed (half-white, half Yaqui Indian) native American in this movie. Reynolds had previously played a Navajo Indian in the western movie Navajo Joe. Reynolds is of part Cherokee Indian descent.
This movie is one of a number of screen westerns that Burt Reynolds made during the mid-late 1960s and early 1970s. These movie westerns include Navajo Joe; 100 Rifles; Sam Whiskey and The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing.