Bandolero!

Bandolero! peaks early, with a long, immensely satisfying opening half-hour in which cowpoke James Stewart saves his bank-robber brother (Dean Martin) from the hangman's noose... by strolling into town and masquerading as the hangman. As the brothers depart into Mexico, with a comely hostage (Raquel Welch) in tow, the action becomes more conventional. It's handsomely shot on eye-filling locations by outdoorsy veteran Andrew V. McLaglen (clever Jerry Goldsmith score, too). George Kennedy plays the lovelorn sheriff in pursuit, leading his half-hearted posse through bandito territory. Credibility suffers with Raquel's fabulous hair, which weathers kidnapping and life on the dusty trail with an unlikely sheen. Stewart and Martin, meanwhile, are too casual to allow the already-relaxed story to build up any real heat. For Western fans, the opening should make it worthwhile, even if it eventually becomes apparent why this one isn't considered a classic. --Robert Horton

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Director(s): Andrew V. McLaglen

Stars: James Stewart, Raquel Welch, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Andrew Prine

Production: 20th Century Fox


IMDB:: 6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:: 20%

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: Unrated
Year:: 1968
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Pop Chaney:
You see, there things a man ought never do - spit in church, scratch his self in front of his ma, and pick his nose. Yes that's what my pa learned me and it stood me in good step.

Mace Bishop:
I don't imagine your pa ever mentioned shooting people, and burning their house down, and stealing, and things like that?

Pop Chaney:
Well, I'm talking about mannerly things Mr. Bishop. I ain't talking about making a living.

Mace Bishop:
Why do you ride with men like these?

Dee Bishop:
Oh, I don't know. I just got used to it, I guess, through the years. You begin one way, you keep going that way, and pretty soon there's no other way.

Maria Stoner:
I thought he was your friend?

Dee Bishop:
He is, but that don't make him any less disgusting. You take Pop, for instance. He was due to be shot the day he was born. And that heart of his is nothing more but a festering sore.

Dee Bishop:
To tell you the truth...

Mace Bishop:
Yeah, yeah, liars always start that way.

Dean Martin said to James Stewart;

Get on down mace , it ain’t much, reminds me of a woman I had back in Kentucky, warm & free

Jimmy Stewart telling younger brother Dean Martin "but, your are so dumb"

Mace to Dean:

D, I know you don't believe in talkin' and you've said that talkin' never got you anywhere, but how in the world are you ever gonna find out anything from anybody if you don't talk?

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Les Hughes
Dean Martin to Rachael Welch.....We’d make a perfect pair you and me, I’m broke without a woman and you’re rich without a man
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