HANNIE CAULDER (1972)

[The Burgomaster]

After her husband is killed and she is raped by 3 outlaws (Ernest Borgnine, Strother Martin, and Jack Elam), Raquel Welch sets out for revenge.  Yeah, you've seen it all before and probably in much better movies than this one.  

Bounty hunter Robert Culp teaches Raquel how to shoot.  Gunsmith Christopher Lee makes a pistol for her.  After numerous scenes of Raquel taking target practice, she goes into town to confront the bad guys.

The bloody shootings in this movie were obviously influenced by THE WILD BUNCH.  However, as in most movies from the late 60s/early 70s, the blood looks like red paint.

I didn't completely dislike this movie.  It does have a few good moments.  Strother Martin is downright hilarious in some scenes and Raquel looks good in her tight pants and western boots.  The opening sequence of a bank robbery and bloody shootout is pretty good, but some of the action scenes later on are pretty ordinary.  The movie is really uneven and some parts are sloppy and seem to have been rushed.  You can definitely find better westerns out there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mijehYrRqnI

[alandhopewell]

     During the summer of '73, I worked at a theatre that showed this, along with SUCH GOOD FRIENDS, notorious for Burgess Meredith's nude scene; I saw both of them at least a dozen times....lucky moi.

[BoyScoutKevin]

Obviously, not the best western I've ever seen, but it does have a few moments that make it worth watching.

As the Burgomaster has already pointed out, the villains are Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam, and Strother Martin.

Heroine: Raquel Welch.

Hero: Robert Culp, as one of the few heroes in a western to wear glasses.

And Christopher Lee (yep, that Christopher Lee), Diana Dors, and in an uncredited role Stephen Boyd.

And from the last three, one ought to be able to tell this one of the few westerns ever done by the English, which makes it almost unique in films.

[RCMerchant]

      notorious for Burgess Meredith's nude scene;

AHHHHK!!!!  Not a pretty mental image! 

[R-T-C Tim]

And from the last three, one ought to be able to tell this one of the few westerns ever done by the English, which makes it almost unique in films.

Actually there are a few British Westerns - Shalako, Sheriff of Fracture Jaw and Hunting Party being some of the best known. But the most influential was Savage Guns, from Hammer Film's Michael Carreras. Made in 1961 it was one of the earliest influences on the genre that became the Spaghetti Western.