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Revenge is a loaded gun in director Burt Kennedy's (The Train Robbers) Hannie Caulder. Raquel Welch (One Million Years B.C., 100 Rifles, and Myra Breckinridge) smolders as Hannie, a widow sworn to avenge her own brutal rape and husband's murder at the hands of Emmett (Ernest Borgnine, The Wild Bunch), Frank (Jack Elam, Support Your Local Sheriff), and Rufus (Strother Martin, Cool Hand Luke), three of the most despicable scoundrels to have ever roamed the prairie. Eager for revenge, but lacking the gunfighter's know-how, Hannie soon discovers new confidence and skill when bounty hunter Thomas Luther Price (Robert Culp, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice) teaches her the way of the gun. In no time, Hannie is strapping on her six shooter and setting out to put a few notches on it's handle. Co-starring the legendary Christopher Lee (Horror of Dracula), playing against type as a sympathetic gunsmith who befriends her, Hannie Caulder hits it's target from ten paces. Extra features include: New High-Definition digital restoration; Audio commentary by Western expert and director Alex Cox (Walker, Repo Man); "Exploitation or Redemption?" - an examination of rape-revenge movies with film scholar Ben Sher; "A Very British Horror Studio" - interview with Sir Christopher Frayling on the history of Tigon Studios; Essay by film critic Miriam Bale Review: It's pretty much a classic. - Interesting casting choices. Raquel had a certain eye-candy appeal, but Robert Culp and Earnest Borgnine really carried the script. At this time in his career, Borgnine didn't play as many villain roles but I guess he didn't object. Jack Elam and Strother Martin were about as "household name" as could be found in their day. Movies of this era had to rely heavily on acting skills rather than special effects and that's something I admire and appreciate. Good movie and great camera work. Review: An underrated western - Such a great and underrated movie. It feels like a spaghetti western but it’s actually a British movie from a company that made horror films. Lots of great actors in it, from Strother Martin to Ernest Borgnine to Christopher Lee, not to mention Raquel Welch and Robert Culp. If westerns are your thing, give it a watch.
| Contributor | Burt Kennedy, Ernest Borgnine, Raquel Welch, Robert Culp |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 794 Reviews |
| Format | NTSC, Subtitled |
| Genre | Westerns |
| Language | English |
| Runtime | 1 hour and 25 minutes |
A**4
It's pretty much a classic.
Interesting casting choices. Raquel had a certain eye-candy appeal, but Robert Culp and Earnest Borgnine really carried the script. At this time in his career, Borgnine didn't play as many villain roles but I guess he didn't object. Jack Elam and Strother Martin were about as "household name" as could be found in their day. Movies of this era had to rely heavily on acting skills rather than special effects and that's something I admire and appreciate. Good movie and great camera work.
C**M
An underrated western
Such a great and underrated movie. It feels like a spaghetti western but it’s actually a British movie from a company that made horror films. Lots of great actors in it, from Strother Martin to Ernest Borgnine to Christopher Lee, not to mention Raquel Welch and Robert Culp. If westerns are your thing, give it a watch.
T**L
great movie
As described plays well
A**N
Fairly unleasant but intersting almost Insane Western from OLIVE FILMS DVD NTSC
This review is for the OLIVE FILMS DVD release-REGION ONE. A beautiful print transfer 2.35:1 ratio (Panavision). Good clear colours tho I did find the sound levels a bit frustrating-Dialogue scenes perfect, then music (Ken Thorne,shades of Elmer B) crashes in requiring me anyway to turn the volume down, otherwise no complaints. No extras or Subtitles. The film itself? Well, I shouldn't like it at all - Graphic rape scenes, random bloody killings and violence, topped off by a ludicrous plot - But I do like it! Probably because Miss Welch looks fantastic. She really doesn't need to act, but she always gives of her best, and this is up there with her best work (Kansas City Bomber/Three Musketeers/Fathom all my own choices you understand). Dressed in a really impossible outfit and always looking gorgeous she is obviously the "star". Her Co-stars work hard to steal the film - Borgnine (terrific) Elam (just Elam) and a magnificent OTT performence from Strother Martin, all playing an almost comedic trio of rapists and outlaws (Why did they choose to rob a bank, in itself incongruous in a one horse run down Mexican town, which is right next door to a Federales post with a dozen slumbering (drunk) soldiers sprawled outside??). Culp is a laid back world weary hero (does he sleep with her?), and Lee has a small but good part a gunsmith. Now, can anyone reading this, if you haven't given up ages ago, help me here. What is Stephen Boyd doing in a tiny unbilled part and what is his character meant to be? Also why did Di Dors take the smallest least important role of her career - talk about a cough and a spit part! Any info welcome. I realize this review is now all over the place...Sorry! Iliked the film but it is definitely and adult western and some scenes, as they say, could cause offence. A must for Raquel fans.
W**I
A Fistful Of Raquel
Since I was a teenager growing up in the late sixties, I always thought that Raquel Welch was greater than the sum of her parts (no pun intended) and always gave excellent performances which were few and far between when the public craved the cheesecake rather than the actress. She proved this with 'FATHOM', one of the best female secret agent movies ever made and her trio of westerns ,'BANDOLERO' in which she played a grieving widow with teeth, '100 RIFLES' playing Burt Reynolds girlfriend of the Revolution and could handle a gun and Jim Brown as well as her bandit team, and 'HANNIE CAULDER' the best role of her career and one of the most underrated films in the Western genre. Written and Directed by Burt Kennedy , this was a British, Spanish,co-production which is in the company of Edward Dmytryk's 'SHALAKO' with Sean Connery and Don Medford's 'THE HUNTING PARTY' with Oliver Reed and Gene Hackman and could almost pass as a Spaghetti Western but not quite. Not only does it give Raquel a pivotol role as the heroine obsessed with revenge but it has a stunning cast. Robert Culp shines as Thomas Price , a bounty hunter who takes Raquel under his wing and teaches her the way of the gun, Sir Christopher Lee licking his acting chops in the great role of Bailey, a lethal gunsmith who creates the perfect weapon for Raquel's vengeance and the targets of her revenge, three of the greatest character actors : Ernest Borgnine, Strother Martin, and at his leering best, Jack Elam. Add Stephen Boyd in a special cameo and you have an incredible mix. A rousing music score by Ken Thorne and beautifully photographed by Edward Scaife , 'HANNIE CAULDER' is a masterpiece and along with 'FATHOM', demonstrates the underrated acting ability of Raquel Welch who deservedly had the mantle as the most beautiful woman ever to grace the screen. Kudos to Olive Films for finally releasing this film for fans and future generations in need of great entertainment, the quality is outstanding. Highly recommended.
J**E
She’s beautiful!
She’s so hot!
R**T
Poor sound, okay imagery, somewhat low budget.
I like Raquel Welch in the few films I've seen her, notably the Musketeer films from the early and mid 1970s. I've never seen Fathom, though I did see her dino pic and 100 Rifles. The thing that strikes me most about this film is that the sound is just poor beyond belief, and we really don't get too much inter her rage at the world for being assaulted by three bandits who killed her husband. It's just not a strong revenge film for the kind of outrage her character suffers. The other thing that holds this film back is the poor film stock. The shot setups are okay, but the film imagery just isn't picking up all of the details. That, and there aren't many extras nor art direction in terms of filling the background with people, horses, carriages, and just other artifacts of the Old West that you might see in a town. It's a pretty barren film. Welch's character goes to the top level and runs into a madam, but we don't get any kind of tension or other notions of Welch's character regarding the sex industry in the Old West. It's a blank film that is done with a kind of competence, but a lack of thoroughness. In short Welch didn't kill enough desperados. There wasn't enough training. The sound, like I mentioned, is bad. The lensing is reasonable, but again the art direction has hardly anything other than the town in front of the camera. A lost opportunity to express the outrage of anyone who has been violated. Either way a better Welch western is 100 Riles, or check out Bandolero! as well. If you have the spare time then check out a copy at the library.
D**N
djackson10011
Great product
"**"
Un western noir et sensuel de Burt KENNEDY
Produit par Raquel WELCH (disparue en 2023 à l'âge de 82 ans) avec son mari Patrick CURTIS, ce western européen a été tourné en 1971, comme tant de nombreux "westerns spaghettis", dans les studios d'Alméria, en Andalousie - Espagne. Ce western, ici en Blu-ray, raconte une sombre et dramatique histoire de vengeance dans lequel tout est mis en avant pour souligner la beauté de Raquel WELCH : Hannie Caulder, en héroïne à la fois charismatique et sensuelle. L'esprit de vengeance qui l'habite en permanence depuis la mort de son mari et son propre viol par les 3 frères Clemens va pouvoir être assouvi grâce à l'aide du réputé chasseur de primes Thomas Luther Price/ robert CULP, un pro qu'elle suivra pour sa sécurité. On peut dire que les acteurs chevronnés que sont Ernest Borgnine : Emmett - Strother Martin : Rufus et par l'inusable Jack Elam : Franck, dans les rôles des 3 frères Clemens, 3 personnages sans foi ni loi interprètent parfois des scènes qui semblent un peu trop surjouées et qui même frisent un peu le ridicule. On trouve également, dans l'unique western de sa carrière cinématographique, la participation de l'acteur Christopher Lee (Dracula) sous les traits de l'armurier Bailey. La présence de Stephen Boyd (Ben Hur) sous celui du "Preacher" peu mis en avant. Un western plaisant, sans être le meilleur de Burt Kennedy, dans lequel une femme tient le rôle principal (c'est si rare à l'époque), certaines scènes sont convenues, mais malgré tout ce film permet de passer un agréable moment en compagnie de sculpturale Raquel WELCH. Pour amateurs de westerns ! L'image et le son sont sur ce Blu-ray de bonne facture. On peut toutefois regretter l'absence totale de suppléments et donc de making of. Les langues : Français et Anglais avec sous-titres Français.
E**X
"Es gibt keine harten Frauen. Nur weiche Männer."
Irgendwann zwischen Ende der Sechziger und Anfang der Siebziger Jahre dachten einige Filmproduzenten in Großbritannien: Was die Deutschen, die Franzosen und die Italiener können, können wir auch! Also wurden Star-Regisseure wie Edward Dmytryk (Shalako, 1968) oder Burt Kennedy engagiert, um in Konkurrenz zu jeweiligen Erfolgen wie "Der Schatz im Silbersee" (Harald Reinl, 1962), "Friedhof ohne Kreuze" (Robert Hossein, 1968) oder "Für eine Handvoll Dollar" (Sergio Leone) zu treten. Im Falle von "Shalako" mit Sean Connery und Brigitte Bardot traf das Ergebnis seiner Zeit auf eher verhaltenen Applaus. Schließlich hat ein Bond-Darsteller in einem Western auch heutzutage noch so seine Probleme mit der Resonanz, siehe aktuell Daniel Craig in "Cowboys & Aliens" (Jon Favreau). Qualitätsmässig geht das aber als ungewöhnlicher und origineller Genrebeitrag in beiden Fällen aus heutiger Sicht in Ordnung. "Hannie Caulder" ist da eine andere Nummer. Fünfziger-Jahre-Western-Drehbuch-Gott Burt Kennedy ("Seven Men from Now - Der Siebente ist dran") hatte in seiner äußerst wechselhaften Regie-Karriere jedoch selten ein glücklicheres Händchen als im vorliegenden Werk. Nach den gelungenen Western-Comedies "Support your Local Sheriff" ("Auch ein Sheriff braucht mal Hilfe" 1969) und "The Rounders" ("Nebraska" 1965), sowie dem spaßigen John-Wayne-Kirk-Douglas-Vehikel "The War Wagon" ("Die Gewaltigen" 1967), zog es ihn aufgrund mangelnder Hollywood-Western-Bedürfnisse nach Europa, wo er erst "Die Höllenhunde" ("La Spina dorsale del Diavolo" 1970) und dann Raquel Welch als "Hannie Caulder - In einem Sattel mit dem Tod" (1971) los lies. Eigentlich konnte er bei eigener Drehbuch-Arbeit (gerade die Dialoge bieten einige grandiose Momente) und einer derartig exquisiten Besetzung nicht mehr viel falsch machen. Einzig der Soundtrack pendelt sich ein zwischen Martin Böttcher und Bruno Nicolai, man gewöhnt sich dran. Allein eröffnend mit dem Peckinpah-Erprobten triebhaften Taugenichts-Triumvirat Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam und Strother Martin hatte er bei mir fast schon sämtliche Bonus-Punkte errungen. Als dann noch der stets unterschätzte Robert Culp, man denke nur an seine Regie- und Darsteller-Leistung in Personalunion bei "Hickey & Boggs - Magnum Heat", eine denkwürdige Karriere-Bestleistung ablieferte und Christopher Lee (mit Harald-Juhnke-Synchron-Bonus) als so seltener Good-Guy-Büchsenmacher Sympathiepunkte sammelte, wurde eines klar und deutlich. Das Tex-Mex-Ploitation-Genre feiert hier einen seiner wenigen Höhepunkte. Selbst Stephen Boyd und Aldo Sambrell geben sich in Kleinstrollen die Ehre. Man beachte fehlende Qualitäten bei Actionlastigeren Filmen wie "100 Rifles - Hundert Gewehre" (Tom Gries, 1969), ebenfalls mit Raquel Welch oder "Cannon for Cordoba" (Paul Wendkos, 1970). Andererseits haben wir es hier mit einem waschechten Rape'N'Revenge-Movie zu tun, dass es sich, ohne sich ausgiebigst daran zu weiden, in harter Gewalt-Western-Manier im Gefolge von "The Wild Bunch" irgendwo zwischen Filmen a'la "The Last Hard Men - Der Letzte der Harten Männer" (Andrew V. McLaglen, 1976), "The Hunting Party - Leise weht der Wind des Todes" (Don Medford, 1971) und "The Deadly Trackers - Bis zum letzten Atemzug" (Barry Shear, Sam Fuller, 1973) bequem macht. Raquel Welch in der Rolle der Hannie Caulder zeigt dabei (fast) alle Qualitäten von, nun ja, Raquel Welch eben. Sie funktioniert bestens in der Rolle, der nach dem Mord an ihrem Mann und anschließender Mehrfach-Vergewaltigung, von Rache getriebenen Frau, die sich zusehends emanzipiert, um am Ende zu triumphieren. Kennedy zeigt sie dabei von ihrer besten Seite und mutet ihr (oder uns) dankenswerter Weise schauspielerisch nicht zuviel zu. So bleibt sie letztendlich der überaus ansehnliche klassische MacGuffin, der allen anderen die Bühne für feinste Kabinettstückchen bereitet. Kein Wunder, dass Quentin Tarantino hier für sein ähnlich gelagertes Epos "Kill Bill" (2003) aus vollem Fundus abschöpfen konnte. Mit dem Unterschied, dass Burt Kennedy für seine Geschichte nur 80 kurzweilige Minuten benötigt, während es bei Q.T. gut 4 Stunden dauert, bis das Rache-Gericht serviert ist. Ich warte gespannt auf seinen nächstes Jahr anstehenden Rache-Western "Django Unchained". Die DVD bietet beim am Anfang klaren Bild im Original-Format (2,35:1) im späteren Verlauf einige Unschärfen und es kam mir auch so vor, als sei der Ton, zumindest in der deutschen Version, an einigen Stellen leicht asynchron, allerdings minimal, kaum störend. Trailer, Bildergalerie & Super-8-Fassung, sowie Ton in Englisch mit nicht abschaltbaren deutschen Untertiteln. Fazit: Der Film ist sicherlich kein großes Meisterwerk, verdient aber mit Sicherheit und allem gebührenden Respekt die volle Punktzahl dafür, eine ungemein klasse bereitete cineastische Arschbombe für Jungs-Abende mit Dosenbier zu sein. Und Alice Schwarzer würde angesichts der gelebten filmischen Emanzipation vermutlich Purzelbäume schlagen.
L**E
Sehr gute DVD
Danke sehr zu empfehlen .
B**7
classique
superbe film tourné à la sergio leone avec la somptueuse sharon stone .
A**R
Raquel
One of my best Raquel Welch movies ever.Plenty of great actors. Christopher Lee, Robert Culp, and Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam and Strother Martin as the bad guys. Fantastic . Then add a very sexy Raquel Welch, hell bent on revenge,on those three who killed her husband and took advantage of her. Really enjoyed it. I used to have a VHS version and not want to part with it.But now that I have a DVD copy, I'm overjoyed.
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