Bandolero!

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen Andrew V. McLaglen

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/21/2017
UPC:	0024543315728
Original Release:	1968
Rating:	NR
Source:	ALLIED VAUGHN
Language:	English
Time:	1:47:00
Sales rank:	1,877

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

James Stewart	Mace Bishop
Dean Martin	Dee Bishop
George Kennedy	Shériff July Johnson
Raquel Welch	Maria
Andrew Prine	Roscoe Bookbinder
Clint Ritchie	Babe
Denver Pyle	Carter
Tom Heaton	Joe,Joe Chaney
Ruby Diaz	Angel,Angel
Sean McClory	Robbie
Perry Lopez	Frisco
Jock Mahoney	Stoner
Harry Carey Jr.	Cort
Will Geer	Pop Chaney
Don 'Red' Barry	Jack Hawkins
Guy Raymond	Ossie Grimes
Dub Taylor	Attendant
Big John Hamilton	Bank Clerk
Robert Adler	Ross Harper
John Mitchum	Bath House Customer
Jerry Goldsmith	Composer
Harry Carey	Actor
Patrick Cranshaw	Bank Clerk
Roy Barcroft	Bartender
Wade Phillips	Member of Sheriff July Johnson's Posse

Technical Credits

James Lee Barrett

Andrew V. McLaglen	Director
Robert L. Jacks	Producer
James Lee Barrett	Screenwriter
L.B. Abbott	Special Effects
David Dockendorf	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Herman Lewis	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

"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!

All Movie Guide - Hans J. Wollstein