Ein alternder texanischer Viehbauer, der seiner Zeit hinterherhinkt, tritt in Aktion, als Banditen seinen Enkel entführen und seinen Sohn verwunden.Ein alternder texanischer Viehbauer, der seiner Zeit hinterherhinkt, tritt in Aktion, als Banditen seinen Enkel entführen und seinen Sohn verwunden.Ein alternder texanischer Viehbauer, der seiner Zeit hinterherhinkt, tritt in Aktion, als Banditen seinen Enkel entführen und seinen Sohn verwunden.
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Christopher Mitchum
- Michael McCandles
- (as Chris Mitchum)
Ethan Wayne
- Little Jake McCandles
- (as John Ethan Wayne)
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- WissenswertesJohn Wayne's last film with Christopher Mitchum. The two actors fell out when Mitchum disagreed with Wayne's conservative views during a television interview, and they never spoke again. Mitchum tried to get in touch with Wayne in 1979 when the veteran star was dying of cancer, but did not receive any response.
- PatzerBefore the Rangers set out after the kidnappers, Michael tells them that they are five hours away. He does not refuel his motorcycle before they leave. Presumably, there are no gasoline stations along the way, and no extra fuel is seen being carried. They should have run out of gas a long time before reaching the bad guys.
- Zitate
Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles: And now *you* understand. Anything goes wrong, anything at all... your fault, my fault, nobody's fault... it won't matter - I'm gonna blow your head off. No matter what else happens, no matter who gets killed I'm gonna blow your head off.
- VerbindungenFeatured in 100 Years of the Hollywood Western (1994)
Ausgewählte Rezension
Mark this down as a very entertaining western with more realistic gunfight scenes than most films, meaning the good guys get shot as well as the villains. John Wayne's "The Searchers," a very similar movie story-wise, gets a lot better press than this film but "Big Jake" is just as good, if not better.
To be fair, while the gunfights in here were well done, the fistfights were an insult. Whenever someone got slugged, such as Wayne belting his kids, it had no effect on them, except just to knock them down for a second or two. In real life, folks, chances are you will knocked unconscious if you are hit in the face, especially by a powerful man like Wayne. This has been a ludicrous fact-of-life, however, in all films for 100 years, not just here.
Other than that, the film is a straight hard-nosed one with Wayne and adversary Richard Boone both fascinating. The dialog between the two was especially fun to hear. Too bad there wasn't more of it. Boone did not have enough lines in this film. Wayne's real-life sons in this film didn't impress me with their acting but they weren't horrible either.
Bruce Cabot was a hoot as an old Indian friend of Wayne's. As with most westerns, there is some nice scenery so if you have the opportunity, watch this on widescreen DVD. It was nice-looking movie.
To be fair, while the gunfights in here were well done, the fistfights were an insult. Whenever someone got slugged, such as Wayne belting his kids, it had no effect on them, except just to knock them down for a second or two. In real life, folks, chances are you will knocked unconscious if you are hit in the face, especially by a powerful man like Wayne. This has been a ludicrous fact-of-life, however, in all films for 100 years, not just here.
Other than that, the film is a straight hard-nosed one with Wayne and adversary Richard Boone both fascinating. The dialog between the two was especially fun to hear. Too bad there wasn't more of it. Boone did not have enough lines in this film. Wayne's real-life sons in this film didn't impress me with their acting but they weren't horrible either.
Bruce Cabot was a hoot as an old Indian friend of Wayne's. As with most westerns, there is some nice scenery so if you have the opportunity, watch this on widescreen DVD. It was nice-looking movie.
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- 31. Okt. 2005
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- El Saltito waterfall, Nombre de Dios, Durango, Mexiko(Automatic handgun scene.)
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- 4.800.000 $ (geschätzt)
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