I had this friend in grade school who loved this one scene in Westworld. Richard Benjamin, wearing only a towel, bursts though a door and shoots Yul Brenner menacing his friend, James Brolin, in their hotel room. I didn't especially like that scene because I had always found walking around in a towel to be a constant struggle to keep it from falling off. Jean-Pierre Leaud modestly clutching his towel in The 400 Blows was far more realistic. But, seeing it again, that was a pretty good scene.
The movie was about an amusement park where you could shoot or have sex with robots.
The movie western was a dying genre in 1973 and I didn't understand why people would go to a theme park made to look like a cowboy movie. Medieval World and Roman World in the same theme park made even less sense to me at the time.
Yul Brenner dressed as he was in The Magnificent Seven. Nice to see Richard Benjamin as an action star, but they should have treated Dick Van Patten better.
It might make a good double feature with The Stepford Wives (1975).
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