Luke Billings and his four reprobate sons ride into a small South African settlement in search of revenge on Police Sergeant Sam Hargis. Hargis knows he cannot outgun the five outlaws and ...
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| Richard Todd | ... | Sam Hargis | |
| Anne Aubrey | ... | Priss Dobbs | |
| Jamie Uys | ... | Ernie Dobbs | |
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Marty Wilde | ... | John Billings |
| Lionel Jeffries | ... | Luke Billings | |
| James Booth | ... | Jubal Billings | |
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Al Mulock | ... | Mark Billings (as Al Murdock/Al Mulock) |
| Colin Blakely | ... | Matthew Billings | |
| Ronald Fraser | ... | Frank (as Ronald Fraser/Ronnie Fraser) | |
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Zena Walker | ... | Julie Hargis |
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George Moore | ... | Malachi |
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Bill Brewer | ... | Mike The Barman |
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Jan Bruyns | ... | Jan Pretorius |
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Lorna Cowell | ... | Martha Pretorius |
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Ricky Arden | ... | Bert |
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Luke Billings and his four reprobate sons ride into a small South African settlement in search of revenge on Police Sergeant Sam Hargis. Hargis knows he cannot outgun the five outlaws and turns to the townspeople for help. But he gets no help except from a most unexpected source. Ultimately Hargis must face Billings on his own. Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
14 March 1962 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
5 katazitoumena katharmata See more »Filming Locations:
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Music Composed by Larry Adler
Lyrics Written by Herbert Kretzmer and Larry Adler
Sung by Marty Wilde
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South Africa's first Western genre film. Also, the first co-production between South Africa, the USA and Great Britain. See more »Soundtracks
The HellionsMusic Composed by Larry Adler
Lyrics Written by Herbert Kretzmer and Larry Adler
Sung by Marty Wilde
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The Hellions is a great film and Richard Todd is very convincing. I have seen this film only once and that was about 30 years ago on British television. I too, have searched for a video but have been unable to find any although Posters do appear on ebay from time to time. Most people say it is a High Noon and in some respects it is similar as a lone lawman, in this case a South African Constable has to face the bad guys alone out of his personal sense of duty. It is dissimilar to High Noon in that the action is more spread out as a sequence of events. It is most similar to Firecreek which was made 7 years later and stars James Stewart and Henry Fonda and I think this was a copy of the Hellions script adapted as a Western. In Firecreek James Stewart plays a honorary sheriff of a small town of losers which becomes a place for the bad guys led by Henry Fonda to hold up in. Fonda leads a gang of gunmen who take part in Range Wars. So if you can't watch the Hellions get a copy of Firecreek.
Jeff Herbert