Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier
Acting
Dean Martin visibly hungover, somehow still charming
Practical Effects
Actual Gatling gun mayhem in 1971 Spain standing in for the Old West
Costume
Honor Blackman's wardrobe fighting the desert heat and the script
Director
Andrew V. McLaglen
Dean Martin
Joe Baker
Brian Keith
Col. Morgan
Carol White
Dover McBride
Honor Blackman
Mary Anna Morgan
Ben Johnson
Jesse Bookbinder
Albert Salmi
Jonny Cobb
Don Knight
Tommy McBride
Joyce Van Patten
Polly Standall
Denver Pyle
Junior Frisbee
Merlin Olsen
Sgt. Fitzsimmons
Robert Donner
Angel Moon
Harry Carey, Jr.
Joe Pickins
Paul Fix
Chief Yellow Sun
David Huddleston
Malachi Morton
Bob Steele
Teamster #3
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Andrew V. McLaglen made five films with John Wayne but somehow convinced Dean Martin to do this instead of sleep through another Rat Pack show.
This flopped so hard it helped kill the Western-comedy trend until 'Blazing Saddles' arrived to actually satirize the genre three years later.
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