Tagline: "This picture has a message: 'Watch Out!'"
Plot: Burt Reynolds plays an American criminal hired by Mexican rebels to buy rifles (yes, 100 of them) to stop a railroad company from invading their turf. Jim Brown plays a bounty hunter charged with bringing him back; if successful, he'll become a sheriff. (He's several years ahead of Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles.) Raquel Welch plays a fiery Mexican rebel with deep cleavage and an even deeper sense of commitment to her exploited Indian people. Could they somehow wind up working as a team to bring down the evil capitalists?
Key scenes: In a scene that isn't sure whether it wants to shatter stereotypes or reinforce them, Brown begins to force himself on Welch. She screams in protest. They pause to re-evaluate the situation, then make sweet, sweet love. Later, Welch distracts a train filled with gunmen by drenching herself in water beneath a watering station. Then she shoots them.
Can easily be distinguished by: It's probably the only movie in which Welch yells, "Vamos! Vamos!" at the top of her lungs
Sign that it was made in 1969: Though set in the 19th century, it's pretty unmistakably the product of 1969. The bad guys are so bad that no one questions the justness of armed rebellion, even in a final scene that leaves a whole town drenched in blood. Also, it mistakes open expressions of prejudice for a discussion on prejudice. "I don't much like Indians anyway," Brown tells his partners. Shortly thereafter, Reynolds calls him "just plain 'ol black-ass dumb!"
Timeless message: When life gives you lemons, trade them for firearms and start shooting.
Memorable quotes: A corrupt lawman interrogating Burt Reynolds, who spends the film speaking with an overpronounced Southern drawl: "You look Mexican… But you don't talk Mexican."
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