hackraytex
A spaghetti western that is definitely outside the box. Sorry I keep using that expression. Hannie Caulder (Raquel Welch) survives a brutal rape by three brothers who take lowlife scoundrels to a new level After her husband is murdered and she is raped, she goes after them and knows little about gun fighting until she meets a bounty hunter played by Robert Culp who shows her the ropes. An aside issue is the the three lowlife brothers are well played by Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam, and Strother Martin who do a good job of channeling The Three Stooges and steal every scene they are in. I remember the critics hated it but what do they know since they usually have their mind made up before watching movies like this. It is too bad that Messrs. Borgnine, Elam, and Martin did not try to do a couple of comedy westerns without being low life scumbags because as these characters they were funny and had great chemistry.
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One of the top ten Westerns of all time. Otherworldly acting by Raquel Welch. Is Racquel Welch Hannie Caulder? Or is Hannie Caulder Raquel Welch? Great supporting cast: Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine, Strother Martin, Jack Elam, Stephen Boyd, and Christopher Lee. One of those rare movies like Casablanca or The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance that you can watch once a year, and every time it is like watching it the first time.
merklekranz
Ernest Borgnine, Strother Martin, and Jack Elam, play outlaw bumbling brothers in "Hannie Caulder". After killing her husband and brutalizing her, Raquel Welch seeks revenge, with the aid of a bounty hunter, Robert Culp. Despite the fact that Raquel Welch looks the part of a frontier woman about as much as Woody Allen looks like Clint Eastwood, the film works. It is refreshing to have three great character actors as the squabbling villains, and the acting by everyone is totally acceptable, even with the uneasy shifts between humor and violence. There also appears to be several nods to Sergio Leone's western trilogy, Raquel wears a poncho, much like Clint Eastwood. In the cemetery two additional graves are being dug, before the occupants are dead, similar to the "A Fistful of Dollars" number of coffins mistake. Lee Van Cleef's slapping around the whore in "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", is duplicated by Ernest Borgnine in the rape scene with Raquel Welch. Finally, the film progresses at the leisurely pace of a "spaghetti western", and admirers of that genre should seek this one out. - MERK
jfgibson73
What a terrible name. Hannie? Why not just Annie? That aside, I did enjoy this movie. It is a very basic rape/revenge story done as a Western. I don't think it was nearly as gritty as it was meant to be. When characters say things like, "You're a hard woman, Hannie Caulder," I felt like they could have done more to show how hard she had become, rather than just point it out with dialog. Also, there was a little bit of forced sentimentality, and some ill-placed comic relief that felt almost slap-sticky.This is just nitpicking however. It was very satisfying and watchable, at least for one viewing. Raquel Welch, who I probably know best from her guest appearance on Seinfeld, was very striking as the damaged frontier woman. A lot of people seem to really like the character that helps train her as a gunfighter. I found him more functional to the story than interesting. Christopher Lee had a cameo that had me asking if it was really him. And there was one unresolved plot point in that as far as I could tell, they never explained who the mystery man in black was. If you are in the mood for a lighter, easy-to-watch western, this should go down nice. Just don't expect the depth of, say, "Once Upon A Time..."
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