Bandolero!

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

James Stewart and Dean Martin are atypically cast as outlaws in Bandolero! The film begins as Dee Bishop (Martin) and his gang are about to be hanged. The Scripture-spouting executioner turns out to be Dee's brother Mace (Stewart), who helps the desperadoes escape. They are pursued by a sheriff (George Kennedy), whose lady friend (Raquel Welch) has the hots for Dee. The brothers try to go straight, but before they can make up their mind they find themselves surrounded by Mexican bandidos and are forced to team up with the sheriff to fight them off. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (Cinemascope)
• Features:
  • cc
  • Trailer
  • Spanish Trailer
  • "Raquel Welch Theater" (15 Minutes)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       James Stewart - Mace Bishop
       Dean Martin - Dee Bishop
       Raquel Welch - Maria
       George Kennedy - Sheriff Johnson
       Andrew Prine - Roscoe
       Will Geer - Pop Chaney
       Clint Ritchie - Babe
       Denver Pyle - Carter
       Rudy Diaz - Angel
       Sean McClory - Robbie
       Harry Carey, Jr. - Cort Hayjack
       Don "Red" Barry - Hawkins
       Big John Hamilton - Bank Clerk

• Director:

  Andrew V. McLaglen

• Producer:

  Robert L. Jacks

• Screenwriter:

  James Lee Barrett

• Cinematographer:

  William H. Clothier

• Composer (Music Score):

  Jerry Goldsmith

• Editor:

  Folmar Blangsted

• Art Director:

  Jack Martin Smith, Alfred Sweeney

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  David Dockendorf, Herman Lewis

• First Assistant Director:

  Terry Morse, Jr.

• Short Story Author:

  Stanley L. Hough

REVIEW:

• "I was a whore at 13 and my family of 12 never went hungry," Raquel Welch's newly widowed Maria Stoner tells George Kennedy's lovesick sheriff early on in this average American-made spaghetti Western. It is hard to know today whether such lines were actually meant to be delivered tongue in cheek or whether screenwriter James Lee Barrett merely attempted to shock. Certain sequences in Bandolero! -- chiefly involving James Stewart impersonating a devoted hangman -- are definitely written and performed for comedy and the graphic violence in the climactic battle is choreographed much like the era's Italian Westerns, a genre never meant to be taken at all serious. And neither, it seems, should Bandolero! ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi