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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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100 RIFLES

By Dan Day Jr. on Feb 23, 2017 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

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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Part Cherokee Indian, Burt Reynolds plays a Yaqui Indian in this movie. Prior to the making of this film, Reynolds had played characters of Indian descent in two productions of television series. The first was as the half-breed blacksmith Quint Asper in _"Gunsmoke (1955)"_ whilst the other was as the New York DA's office cop Detective Lieutenant John Hawk, a full blooded Iroquois Indian, in Hawk.
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.
Playing the lead part of the Yaqui Indian Yaqui Joe Herrera in this movie, Burt Reynolds was not actually of Yaqui descent but of part Cherokee lineage.
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.
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