An American western filmed in Spain. With a small but all-American cast. It was no spaghetti western. Directed by Rickard Fleischer. With Ron Howard and Charles Martin Smith, both from American Graffiti, and Gary Grimes from Summer of '42 as naive country boys who become enamored with aging outlaw Lee Marvin who they find wounded and dying and nurse back to health.
The young fellows run away from home to become criminals, I guess. It might have been better had they been naturally bloodthirsty with a depraved indifference to human life. Someone noted somewhere that peasant revolts tend to be especially bloody. You'd think farm boys would be more brutal, shocking even hardened middle-age criminals.
But, of course, they were nice boys out playing outlaw even though they were each about twenty-years-old. Ron Howard agreed to star in Happy Days to stay out of Vietnam. They wouldn't draft you if you were on TV. Others in their age group killed millions, but they played innocent naifs in this thing.
Available on Amazon Prime.
A much better movie was Bad Company about some young fellows who set out to become criminals, one of them only wanting to dodge the draft during the Civil War.
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