Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

zardoz-13 "Our Man Flint" director Daniel Mann's western "The Revengers" resembles Henry King's horse opera "The Bravados" (1958) about a vengeful rancher who tracks down the evil gunmen who murdered his wife and then gradually becomes as callous as the men that he killed. In "The Revengers," a peaceful rancher rides off, leaving his family behind briefly, to track down a wounded mountain lion that his son had shot earlier. Our hero found the mountain lion dead. During his absence, however, a gang of barbaric Comancheros attack his house, massacre his entire family. One of his long-time ranch hands dies, too. The protagonist of this adventurous western, John Benedict (William Holden), heads down to Mexico, assembles a half-dozen dastards that he bails from a dirty Hispanic prison a la "Dirty Dozen," and sets out after the white man with different colored eyes who wiped out his wife, two daughters, and oldest son bound to attend the West Point Military Academy. The better-than-average cast includes Ernest Borgnine as scene-stealing scumbag named Mr. Hoop and Woody Strode as a cantankerous ex-slave who takes his own sweet time making up his mind about his decisions. Benedict and his gunmen search Mexico for years until our protagonist becomes so callous that one of his old friends not only doesn't recognize him but also shuns him for what he has become. "The Revengers" evokes memories of "The Wild Bunch," and some of its scenes are played out in "Wild Bunch" locations. "Death Wish" scenarist Wendell Mayes wrote the screenplay based on Steven W. Carabatsos' story. Carabatsos is best known for the Lee Van Cleef & Jim Brown western "El Condor." Susan Hayward shows up about three-quarters of the way through as a nurse who takes care of Benedict after he is shot and left for dead in a cantina by one of his own men. This film marked Hayward's last big screen role. The chief with "The Revengers" is the slipshod ending. You expect that the reformed Benedict plans to pick up her, but all we see at fade-out is a long shot of his sprawling ranch as he drives horses to it. The Pino Calvi orchestral score is excellent. Essentially, "The Revengers" has a Spaghetti western sensibility to it and Calvi's score alludes to throughout its 148 minutes. Producer Martin Rackin has done an excellent job making this western look prestigious. Prior to making "The Revengers," Holden played a wanderlust cowpoke in Blake Edwards "The Wild Rovers" with Ryan O'Neal. "The Revengers" marked Holden's last appearance in a horse opera.

Spikeopath The Revengers is directed by Daniel Mann and written by Wendell Mayes and Steven W. Carabatsos. It stars William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Woody Strode, Roger Hanin, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Jorge Luke, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Susan Hayward and Arthur Hunnicutt. A De Luxe Color/Panavision production, music is by Pino Calvi and cinematography by Gabriel Torres.Colorado rancher John Benedict (Holden) hires six chain-gang convicts to find the white comancheros who led an Indian raid that massacred his family and friends.It is pretty much a Western Dirty Half Dozen, with Holden getting to play the Lee Marvin role and Borgnine, stripped of the weight he was carrying when The Dirty Dozen was made in 1967, getting the chance to be one of the crims on a mission instead of the cameo role of General Worden in Robert Aldrich's macho magnificence. Nicely filmed out of various Mexican locations, film is essentially dealing with a man so hell bent on revenge he comes to resemble the criminals he now rides with. But even crims have codes and ethics as well! Director Daniel Mann never really gets to grips with the character dynamics, leaving hanging the themes of surrogate fatherhood and slave stoicism, while an interim part of the play that sees Hayward nurse Holden back to health actually bogs down the picture, coming off as an excuse to pitch the two great actors together again.Oh the performances of the cast are enjoyable, especially Borgnine who is having fun as a sly old grizzler, and Holden is as stoic and sternly professional as always, but nothing ever advances beyond being a bunch of blokes traversing the landscapes in readiness for a siege. Is the anticipated siege worth the wait? Actually yes it is, and it goes some way to explaining why the film hasn't fallen into the trough of stinky waters never to be used to quench the Western lovers thirst. But then! Something happens to make you think the Production Code was back in boorish operation. Pah! I imagine Peckinpah and Aldrich shed a frustrated tear at this point... 6/10

GUENOT PHILIPPE I first watched this film more than thirty years ago, and I hated it. I must say that I discovered THE WILD BUNCH only a couple of days before...How the hell can any one compare this piece of crap to Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece? Because there are William Holden and Ernest Borgnine in it? I waited more than thirty years to see it again; maybe sometimes you can expect a different point of view, you may be more mature, you may watch in a more accurate way and, why not...But no, this feature seems even more dull and useless to me as a camel would be in the North Pole. I don't know if it is because of the director - Daniel Mann - who has never been an action films one. The actors direction seems OK, but it is the story which is dumb at the most. Poor Susan Hayward who gives here,as far as I know, her last performance. She deserved better. Far better.Forget it, a total waste.

Petri Pelkonen Rancher John Benedict's wife and four children are killed one day by Comanche Indians.He needs to revenge for their deaths.He gathers up a posse formed of six prisoners.Their job is to find a man named Tarp, who led the slaughter.The Revengers (1972) is directed by Daniel Mann.There's a great ensemble in this movie.The legendary William Holden plays John Benedict.A legend is also Ernest Borgnine, a living legend, I might add.He plays Hoop.Today this man celebrates his 95th birthday.That's quite an achievement.And he's done about 200 movies in his career.And he's still not thinking of retirement.Way to go, Ernie! The terrific Woody Strode portrays Job.Roger Hanin plays the part of Quiberon.Susan Hayward returned from her voluntary retirement to play Elizabeth Reilly.Arthur Hunnicutt is Free State.Warren Vanders plays Tarp.Larry Pennell is Arny.James Daughton is Morgan.Holden's late son, Scott Holden, plays Lieutenant.I'd say as a western this is underrated.It may not reach the level of The Wild Bunch, but there still are some likable qualities in this movie.It's a manly movie, but those moments between Bill Holden and Susan Hayward are filled with sweetness and tenderness.And those manly scenes also work, the bloody battle scenes.Watch this movie and have your own opinion of it.But I liked it pretty much.