Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

JohnHowardReid Magnificently photographed with a brilliance hitherto unmatched in the usually patchy DeLuxe color medium, "One Hundred Rifles" comes to us with superb action sequences, but unfortunately we are let down by the ill-advised casting of Jim Brown in the central role. Although the rest of the cast give him strong support, this is a part that was plainly meant for someone like Gary Cooper or Burt Lancaster. Pleasing through it is to find Jim heading the cast, it's difficult to identify with him in the hero's role here. Why not? It's hard to tell. Perhaps because we're not used to making such an identification? Or is it that we don't feel with him simply because he lacks a photographic charisma? Now that's a hard ask. I could easily give you a list of fifty great stage actors who never made the grade in movies. They just simply didn't come across on film. That's why we have film tests. On the other hand, I could give you a list of at least thirty great film stars I knew personally that just simply didn't come across in real life. But put them in front of a camera, and something magical happened. The camera loved them so much, it not openly smoothed out all their bad vibes, but gave them a charisma that they actually lacked in real life.

garyldibert 100 Rifles was release in Australia at the beginning of March and wasn't release in New York City until March 26, 1969. 100 Rifles is a 1969 western directed by Tom Gries. The film stars Jim Brown, Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, and Fernando Lamas. Jerry Goldsmith composed the original music.Summary: In the early 1900's, Yaqui Joe, a half-breed Indian, robs an Arizona bank and flees across the border into the Mexican town of Nogales where the governor, General Verdugo, aided by a German military adviser, Von Klemme, is waging a war of annihilation against the Yaqui Indians. Verdugo captures Joe and orders him shot, whereupon Lyedecker, a black American deputy assigned to bring the half-breed back to the States, intervenes, and is himself arrested. The two men escape to the hills where Sarita, a beautiful Indian revolutionary, joins them. After Joe has revealed that he used the bank loot to purchase 100 rifles for the Indians, General Verdugo once more captures the two men and orders them shot. Determined to see that the rifles reach her people, Sarita leads an attack on the General's hacienda and frees the two men as well as the rifles. Enraged, Lyedecker, finally on over to both Sarita and the Indian cause, rescues the children, and vows to destroy Verdugo.Question: What did Verdugo storm Yaqui village. Who finally won over both Sarita and the Indians? Who took over the leadership of the Yaquis? Why did Lyedecker ambushes Verdugo's train? Who distracted the attention of the soldiers? Why was the railroad manager, Grimes, captured by the Indians? Who outwitted the General? Now a few thoughts about this picture. I thought Jim brown was excellent in his role as Lyle Decker. Not only were Brown and excellent football player he was a good actor. What can you say about Burt Reynolds that hasn't already been said. He was usually his funny self with ways of getting out of trouble like any actor I know. Finally Raquel Welch! Her role as Sarita was fantastic the way she handle herself in the entire picture. The part where she's changing he clothes in the tent and the shower part under the watering tank was the best part of the movie. I give this picture 10 star for two reasons. The first and the most important was Raquel Welch as the leading woman with her beautiful body and her fantastic mine. The second reason because if you like action this movie had it and plenty of it.Some Trivia about this movie: Though this movie has often been called a "spaghetti western," it actually isn't. That term is applied to westerns that were filmed by European companies (usually Italian), with a European (usually Italian) cast and crew and shot in Spain, because its terrain closely resembles the northeast Mexico/southwest US area. Although this film was shot in Spain, an American studio (20th Century-Fox) filmed it with an American director, producer, writers, and mostly American crew. Star Burt Reynolds' previous film, Navajo Joe, would be properly regarded as a "spaghetti western," but not this one.

inkybrown In 1966, future cult starlet Soledad Miranda traded her artistic life for family life and took a two-year break from performing. She decided to return to cinema when offered a role in 100 Rifles. Soledad appears at the beginning of the movie in a scene with Burt Reynolds. They are in a hotel and are lovers; Soledad demands money from him, but he refuses and it gets a little rough. Their fracas on the hotel balcony (where Soledad is topless) is witnessed by all the townspeople. A Spanish journalist who saw the film in London wrote that Soledad's "charms" had nothing to envy of Raquel Welch's, and begged the Spanish censors to let her countrymen see and admire all that God had given her!

JKwiat5787 After a quick perusal of some of the other comments I wonder if 'plot' or 'acting ability' were even intended. The attractions were Raquel Welch (for the guys to drool over) and Burt Reynolds (for the gals to drool over) with Hall-of-Fame fullback Jim Brown thrown in for good measure and a story which makes for an entertaining shoot 'em up if you're into that sort of thing. Setting the whole thing in politically unstable Mexico in the turn of the century gives the story an air of plausibility, especially with Eric Braeden being added as a German adviser. (Also more eye candy for the ladies.) Come to think of it, it's not balanced; the ladies have Reynolds, Brown, Braeden, and Fernado Lamas to look at; the guys only have Welch. I can't comment on the historical backdrop the way I do with a lot of my other comments because I know close to nothing about what was going on there at the time. I've heard of Pancho Villa, but that's about it. Most of these actors probably never got to really show if they could act since their sex appeal sort of became the secret of their success. Did anybody ever coach Welch as an actress? I wouldn't bet on it. They'd just dress her up in an outfit that made the most of her natural attributes, tell her to look sexy, and roll the camera. At least, that's my prejudiced notion. However, I know Welch was at least partly Hispanic, so a Mexican girl like in this movie and in Bandolero! may have come a bit more naturally.