Bad bank robber falls in love with granddaughter of miner he and his men planned to rob of gold, has change of heart.Bad bank robber falls in love with granddaughter of miner he and his men planned to rob of gold, has change of heart.Bad bank robber falls in love with granddaughter of miner he and his men planned to rob of gold, has change of heart.
Sann de Lange
- Bank Customer
- (uncredited)
Frank Douglas
- Bank Manager
- (uncredited)
Pieter Hauptfleisch
- Dirk
- (uncredited)
Hal Orlandini
- Bartender
- (uncredited)
Gert van den Bergh
- Drunk
- (uncredited)
James White
- Bank Teller
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaOpening narration - During the latter half of the last century, in the rugged hills and ridges of South Africa's Transvaal, gold was discovered. The result was a rushing, roaring tide of wealth seekers from all corners of the globe. First came the prospectors, high of hope, simple of purpose; and in their wake swept the next group: the speculators, the adventurers. Then, as inevitable as nature itself, there came the final ones: the scavengers, the jackals.
- GoofsWillie intermittently wears eye makeup.
- Quotes
Roger 'Stretch' Hawkins: I just wanted to show you how safe you'd be if I really wanted to get rough.
Wilhemina Adelaide 'Willie' Decker: You smell! Even animals are cleaner than you.
- ConnectionsRemake of Yellow Sky (1948)
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Has some bright spots, but did little for me
My main reason for seeing The Jackals was Vincent Price. And while he has given better performances before, he still gives amusement and sometimes creepiness to the role of the grizzled grandfather figure. Other redeeming qualities are the final gunfight, the most exciting and original of the fight scenes in the film, Diana Ivarson's beauty and the striking photography and scenery. There are however major debits with The Jackals, which I think outweigh the good things. The rest of the cast(particularly from tall and ruggedly handsome Robert Gunnar), and actually Ivarson is the same, are very stiff and do nothing with their cardboard characters, who are to me little more than Western cliché bookends. The violence is more at home in a network television programme from the mid-1960s, while the story is overall dull and bland as well as playing it far too safe. The dialogue, of which is very faithful to Yellow Sky, word-for-word often actually, because of the blandness of the pacing and story seemed very wordy and stilted here. While the score is really out-of-place, it is difficult to take seriously a jazzy xylophone-like score that adds nothing to the mood in a Western. Overall, has some bright spots like Price and the scenery but because of the story, the rest of the acting and the music especially The Jackals did little for me. 4/10 Bethany Cox
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- TheLittleSongbird
- Jan 13, 2013
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- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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