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Director:

Hy Averback

Writers:

Frank O'Rourke (novel)
William Peter Blatty (writer)

Contact:

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Release Date:

25 November 1969 (West Germany) more

Genre:

Comedy | Western more

Plot:

Three separate plans to rob a top-security bank in the western town of Friendly, Texas, circa 1880. full summary | add synopsis

User Comments:

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Zero Mostel ... Rev. Pious Blue

Kim Novak ... Sister Lyda Kebanov (forger)
Clint Walker ... Ranger Ben Quick
Claude Akins ... Slade
Akim Tamiroff ... Papa (Juan's father)

Larry Storch ... Juan
John Anderson ... Mayor Kincaid
Sam Jaffe ... Brother Lilac Bailey (art forger)

Mako ... Secret Agent Fong
Elisha Cook Jr. ... Jeb (as Elisha Cook)
Ruth Warrick ... Mrs. Applebee
John Fiedler ... Brother Dismas Ostracorn (explosives)
John Larch ... Sheriff of Friendly
Peter Whitney ... Brother Jordan Cass (tunneling)
Norman Alden ... The Great Gregory (balloonist)
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Additional Details

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

4-Track Stereo

Certification:

Finland:K-12 | Sweden:11 | USA:M (original rating) | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

California, USA


Fun Stuff

Goofs:

Continuity: In earlier scenes of Lila riding the horse, there are three flowers on her left leg. The last scene she has five flowers on her left leg. more

Movie Connections:

Spoofs The Great Escape (1963) more

Soundtrack:

The Rainbow Rider more


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It's a matter of taste, 11 April 2003
9/10
Author: katos from Elsmere DE U.S

This is one of those movies that makes some of us laugh out loud no matter how many times we watch it, while it leaves other people cold, and to my mind that's one kind of classic. Calling it a "comedy" may be a little misleading, because it's more of a live-action cartoon -- it's not so much funny as it is silly, but it's silly in ways that have as much to do with the dialog as with the physical comedy. To me it has much in common with the Marx Brothers classics. So it's rather beside the point to discuss how good the acting wasn't, when to some of us just watching Kim Novak and Clint Walker trying to do comedy is itself highly entertaining. And although it does illustrate its moral ("Crime doesn't pay"? "Cheaters never win"?) in a form suitable for children (and also teaches the valuable lesson that bad people can be acting as clergymen, but that doesn't undercut religion itself), I think adults generally enjoy this film more than kids do. But not all adults.

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