{"id":30403,"date":"2022-08-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30403"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:42:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T12:42:15","slug":"100-rifles-1969-starring-jim-brown-raquel-welch-and-burt-reynolds-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30403","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;100 Rifles&#8221; (1969) Starring Jim Brown, Raquel Welch and Burt Reynolds \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z082622zview_100rifles.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"727\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>100 Rifles <\/strong><\/em>(1969)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Tom Gries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: <strong>Clair Huffaker, Tom Gries <\/strong>based on The Californio by <strong>Robert MacLeod<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <strong>Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds, Fernando Lamas<\/strong><strong>, Dan O&#8217;Herlihy<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong>Hans Gudegast <\/strong>(aka Eric Braeden)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 None<\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joe (Reynolds), robbed a US bank and used the money to purchase 100 rifles which will be used by Yaquis to fight the Mexican army led by General Verdugo (Lamas).\u00a0 Sheriff Lyedecker (Brown) tracks Joe to Mexico and finally catches up to him in a small Mexican town.\u00a0 General Verdugo learns of the rifles and thinks Joe and Lyedecker are partners, so he sentences them to death by firing squad!\u00a0 They escape and join Sarita (Welch) and other Mexican revolutionaries.\u00a0 But the Mexican army is close behind&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Any movie with Jim Brown, Raquel Welch and Burt Reynolds should rate at least three stars.\u00a0 <em>100 Rifles<\/em> is the exception to the rule.\u00a0 The movie lacks real tension.\u00a0 We see a bit of Reynolds&#8217; loveable rogue film persona, but since he&#8217;s the third billed actor there&#8217;s not enough to save the film.\u00a0 Brown and Welch are the stars, but together they lack chemistry.\u00a0 Their love scenes don&#8217;t feel sexy which is surprising since they were two of the hottest sex symbols of that time.\u00a0 Tom Gries is a competent director who did most of his work in television and quite often <em>100 Rifles<\/em> feels like a movie made for tv.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><em>100 Rifles<\/em> earns 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>100 Rifles (1969) Director: Tom Gries Screenplay by: Clair Huffaker, Tom Gries based on The Californio by Robert MacLeod Starring:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30427,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30403\/revisions\/30427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}