Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

ma-cortes Entertaining and amusing Western that tells the story of a thief (Burt Reynolds is of part Cherokee Indian descent) , his flight into Mexico and his pursuit by a Black American lawman (Jim Brown) and both of whom chased by a despotic military governor (Fernando Lamas) and his hoodlums (Aldo Sambrell , Eric Braeden) . As in 19th century Mexico appears a half-breed bank robber (Burt Reynolds plays a native/half-white American and his previous film, Navajo Joe 1966 , he also played an Indian) , he is Yaqui Joe , an Indian who robs a bank in order to buy guns for his people who are being savagely repressed by the government . As the lawman and the outlaw eventually become allies and team up with a female revolutionary (Raquel Welch) to help save them from annihilation and to take up the cause of the Indians. Stirring and exciting Western with thrills , violence , shootouts , a lot of firing squad and plenty of action in which a misfit group formed by Yaqui Joe and a sheriff join up with a female revolutionary and attempt to take money from a bank to buy arms for their oppressed people but all of them are relentlessly pursued by the Mexican Army . It includes spectacular pursuits in which the pursued protagonists cross impressive landscapes , rivers and mountains . Although quite racy in its day for its interracial sex sizzle of Brown and Welch , it's overblown and tame by today's standards . In fact , this film was apparently one of the first movies to feature a sex scene between people of different races . What it lacks in political correctness it makes up for in fits of action . Although this film was shot in Spain , it was filmed by an American studio -20th Century-Fox- with an American director , Tom Gries , producer Marvin Schwartz , and expert Western writer Cliff Huffaker , being based on the novel written by Robert MacLeod . Nice acting by Burt Reynolds as a mestizo or half Yaqui Indian who finds himself wanted by an American lawman , adequately played by Jim Brown . Raquel Welch is gorgeous and memorably over-the-top as as the woman who forms a strong axis to Brown . This is one of a number of westerns that Burt Reynolds made during the mid- to late 1960s and early 1970s . These include Navajo Joe(1966), Sam Whiskey (1969) and The man who loved Cat Dancing (1973). And gorgeous Raquel Welch giving a mediocre acting ; Raquel Welch and Burt Reynolds fell out whilst making this movie, three years later they both starred in "Fuzz" . Support casting and crew are formed by an European (usually Spanish) cast , all of them ordinaries in Paella/Spaghetti Western shot in Spain such as : Aldo Sambrell , Alberto Dalbes , Sancho Gracia , Jose Manuel Martin , Charly Bravo , Rafael Albaicín and the beauty Soledad Miranda as a prostitute . Superbly photographed by Cecilio Paniagua on spectacular outdoors from Almeria -though the train wreck station shot in Villamanta, Madrid- , including its terrain closely resembles the northeast Mexico/southwest US área and where in the 60s and 70s were filmed uncountable Westerns . The Spanish Cecilio Paniagua was a very good cameraman who photographed several Westerns such as ¨Custer of the West¨ , "Great Treasure Hunt" , and ¨Hunting party¨ , all of them filmed in Almeria . Special mention for the thrilling as well as evocative musical score by maestro Jerry Goldsmith , composed in his peculiar style . The motion picture was professionally directed by Tom Gries though flopped in theatres . This movie was filmed in the same Almeria, Spain, region as director Tom Gries' TV series The Rat Patrol (1966), both starred Eric Braeden . Traveling to Hollywood in 1947, Gries took a job as a talent agent, and eventually went to work for producer/director Stanley Kramer . He entered the production end of the business as an associate producer, then graduated to writing and producing documentaries. Tom switched to television, where he received an Emmy in 1963 for directing the series East Side/West Side (1963) . Tom was an expert director of Western as ¨Breakheart pass¨ , this ¨100 Rifles¨ , and ¨Will Penny¨ that is the best work ever made ; Gries also directed other successes as ¨Breakout¨, ¨The glass house¨ , ¨Helter Skelter¨ and TV series as ¨QBVII¨ , but he also made some real duds . His later output in other genres was routine.

slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Burt Reynolds movie in his filmography in order, I come to 100 Rifles.Plot in A Paragraph: Set in Mexico during Indian oppression and rebellion. Law man Lyedecker (Jim Brown) arrives in town in hot pursuit of Yaqui Joe (Burt Reynolds) who has stolen $6000 from a bank. Lyedecker soon catches his man, but problems arise when it is revealed Joe is involved in the Indian uprising, and has used the money to buy 100 Rifles for the Indians, which he plans on taking them to the Indians with Sarita (Raquel Welch) Leydecker gets caught up in the uprising but is determined to get his man back to the U.S. as a prisoner.Jim Brown does as well as he can in his role, but acting is not his strong suit. Raquel Welch is gorgeous with a wonderful body, but she was not much of an actress back then and only Burt Reynolds emerges the films real star "acting wise" he plays the role with a glint in his eye and he brings the laughs. Of the three co stars he is the only one who can actually act. Had his character being better scripted, then this would be one of Burt Reynolds more famous characters. As it it is he easily stole this picture.I don't understand why there isn't more love this movie. Burt Reynolds earlier western" Navajo Joe" has a cult following yet is nowhere near as well made or as enjoyable as "100 Rifles"

Poseidon-3 Some filmgoers may be surprised to know that there was a time when Brown could command top-billing over Welch and Reynolds. Here he plays a deputy sheriff, traveling across the Mexican border to retrieve Reynolds, who has robbed an American bank of $6,000. Just as Brown is about to nab Reynolds, all hell breaks loose due to Mexican general Lamas persecution of freedom-fighting peasants, led by curvaceous Welch. With commitment, purpose and loyalty questioned occasionally, Brown, Reynolds and Welch all wind up working together against Lamas, who is allied with O'Herlihy, a railroad representative, and Braeden, a German officer on hand to advise Lamas. The title weapons become a bargaining chip as both sides work hard to defeat the other. Before it's all over, a lot of bullets have been fired, a lot of things have been burned or blown up and plenty of blood has been spilled. Brown, who possessed a laid-back, almost gentle screen presence, is not as comfortable before the camera as he would later become, though his amiability and chemistry with Reynolds helps. Welch is, of course, quite stunning physically, but her acting (which includes a theek Mehican accent!) isn't exactly stellar. Also, not only did she not get along with Reynolds at all, but she also reneged on a nude scene she was supposed to film (it was done with a wet shirt instead.) She also, according to Brown, refused to do their love scene unless she had fabric in between their chests. Their highly publicized love scene is tame now, though it was surely arresting at the time. Stella Stevens would go further when she and Brown made "Slaughter" a few years later. Reynolds conveniently plays a half-Yaqui Indian and half Alabaman. His innate charisma allows him to walk away with most of his scenes while his sense of amused abandon foreshadows his later career. Lamas has a good time as the relentless villain of the film while O'Herlihy is appropriately shifty in his part. The towering Forest (best known for playing Apollo on an episode of "Star Trek") plays Welch's silent helpmate. Miranda has a spicy bit role as one of Reynolds' bedmates. The score for the film, by Jerry Goldsmith, is excellent, containing some unusual sounds/"instruments" no doubt left over from "The Planet of the Apes." There's a lot of action, perhaps even too much since the personal story gets a bit eclipsed along the way and characters long to be fleshed out a little bit more. Still, it's an attractive, interesting cast going through the motions of a sometimes-rousing film. There are a few images of drunken Indians that seem blatantly stereotypical and derogatory these days. At least there is a certain degree of scope in the number of extras used and the spectacle of the train careening into town in the finale. It's a moderately effective time filler.

smatysia I admit that I liked the film, rather more than I expected to. Jim Brown, while not a professional actor held his own for the most part, although his scenes with Raquel Welch seemed a little forced. This makes me think that acting is not really that hard to do acceptably, since so many non-actors have done OK at it. Welch does her part and looked wonderful. Burt Reynolds was at the top of his game here, before he became a world-wide phenomenon, still had to make his way ACTING. Fernando Lamas was suitably evil as the native general/governor trying to commit genocide on the poor, misunderstood, peaceful Indians. And I have to mention the beauty of the late Soledad Miranda. She brightened the screen in the short time she was on it.