In the Old West, impressionable teenagers Will, Les, and Tod find an injured bank robber who asks for their help. At first, the boys are scared and reluctant to help, afraid of getting into trouble with the law and their parents. Moved by the wounded man's pleas, they finally agree to hide him in Will's barn and clean his wounds. Over the next few days, they bring food, drink, and clean clothes to the outlaw, whose name is Harry Spikes. When the sheriff and his posse come by ... (Full plot summary below)
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In the Old West, impressionable teenagers Will, Les, and Tod find an injured bank robber who asks for their help. At first, the boys are scared and reluctant to help, afraid of getting into trouble with the law and their parents. Moved by the wounded man's pleas, they finally agree to hide him in Will's barn and clean his wounds. Over the next few days, they bring food, drink, and clean clothes to the outlaw, whose name is Harry Spikes. When the sheriff and his posse come by and ask questions, Will hides the fact the robber is concealed in his family's barn. After he sufficiently recovers, Harry Spikes thanks the boys for their help and vows to help them in return if they ever need his aid. He takes Will's horse and leaves the county, heading for the Mexican border. Later, Will's parents discover their son's little mischievous secret and administer Will a severe beating to teach him to never lie. Fed up with his father's frequent physical punishments, Will runs away from home. He goes by Les and Tod's homes to bid them farewell. In a powerful thirst for adventure, Les and Tod also decide to leave home. The three teenagers ride on and vow to have fun without any parental restriction. However, after a few days without food or money, the boys decide to rob a bank. The bank robbery goes wrong and the boys are on the run toward the Mexican border. In Mexico they do menial jobs to sustain themselves, but trouble is never far away and they end up in a Mexican jail for breaking into a pawnshop. Languishing in jail, the boys lose hope, but Harry Spikes happens to be passing through town and he finds them and bails them out of jail. In the end, he offers them the chance to work with him. The boys agree to form a bank-robbing gang with Spikes as their leader.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzMarvin excels as the world-weary gunman, who realizes his time is almost up. |
| User ReviewBen SSeasoned bank robber Harry Spikes (Lee Marvin), takes three naive runaway teens under his wing and teaches them the tricks of the trade. But it dosen't take long before the boy's glamorized views of outlawry is altered forever. This sadly overlooked western contains one of Lee Marvin's finest performances. |
| User ReviewDavid WLee Marvin did a great job. I think this was actually one of the better westerns I've seen. |
| User ReviewDC FEasy to follow, solid storyline and superbly well acted (especially by Lee Marvin). It is better than a lot of Westerns and I have no idea what the hold-up is for the dvd release! |
| User ReviewPaul DEasy to follow, solid storyline and superbly well acted (especially by Lee Marvin). It is better than a lot of Westerns and I have no idea what the hold-up is for the dvd release! |
| User ReviewDarrin CEasy to follow, solid storyline and superbly well acted (especially by Lee Marvin). It is better than a lot of Westerns and I have no idea what the hold-up is for the dvd release! |
| User ReviewTom HDecent Western with Lee Marvin as a shot up bank robber getting aid from some teenage boys (played by Ron Howard, Charles Martin Smith, and some other dude). A little slow moving but it gets the job done. |
| User ReviewTerry MFinally saw this on MGM print-on-demand DVD. Wish that the Irving Ravitch and Harriet Frank, Jr. script had been directed by Martin Ritt instead of Richard "it's just an assignment" Fleischer. |
| User ReviewGreg Wgood caper/heist film mixed with modern western |
| User ReviewBrody MThere's a reason this rarely seen western is rarely seen: its not very good. Lee Marvin plays an outlaw who trains a group of young men (Gary Grimes, Ron Howard, Charles Martin Smith) to rob banks and follow in his footsteps. While Marvin is always fun to watch, Grimes gets the lion's share of the footage and does nothing interesting with it. After this he did "Gus" and was soon out of the business entirely. Interesting to see Howard and Smith together a year after "American Graffiti". This could only be described as a big step down. Did enjoy Arthur Hunnicutt's brief scene as the old time outlaw, but the father issues and nickel psychology involving Grimes character are boring and fake. |
