You're Invited to a Party... We'll Play the Deadliest Game of All... Hunting 26 Men and 1 Woman!
A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his wife.
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Grave, classical in form, unpretentious and earnest.
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- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Wuchakon TMDB · Aug 20196/10
***Grim early 70’s Western with Oliver Reed, Gene Hackman and Candice Bergen*** In the Southwest, an outlaw gang led by Frank Calder (Oliver Reed) kidnaps a school teacher (Candice Bergen) so he can learn how to read. Unfortunately for them, she’s the wife of a sadistic wealthy rancher (Gene Hackman) and he’s coming with his personal posse to hunt ’em down with high-powered rifles. Mitchell Ryan, Simon Oakland and L.Q. Jones are also on hand. “The Hunting Party” (1971) treads similar terrain of two earlier Westerns: "Bandolero!" (1968) and "Macho Callahan" (1970). There are also elements of the later “The Train Robbers” (1973). But “The Hunting Party” is the least of these, although it’s not far off. It’s worth catching just to see Reed star in a Western (he’s essentially the British version of Brando), not to mention the potent sequence between Frank (Reed), Doc (Ryan) and Melissa (Bergen) in the last act. The grim climax is memorable as well. There’s a lot of Peckinpah-styled violence. One effective scene involves someone getting shot in the face with a shotgun. There are also a couple of rough adult-oriented sequences. The problem is, the characters are too shallow to care much
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Cast
- Oliver ReedFrank Calder
- Candice BergenMelissa Ruger
- Gene HackmanBrandt Ruger
- Simon OaklandMatthew Gunn
- Mitchell RyanDoc Harrison
- L.Q. JonesHog Warren
- William WatsonJim Loring
- G.D. SpradlinSam Bayard
- Rayford BarnesCrimp
- Ronald HowardWatt Nelson
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- Don MedfordDirector
- Gilbert RalstonScreenplay
- William W. NortonScreenplay
- Lou MorheimScreenplay
- Cecilio PaniaguaDirector of Photography
- Tom RolfEditor
- Lou MorheimProducer
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