100 Rifles (1969)

When an Arizona lawman (Jim Brown) crosses the border to Mexico in search of a bank robber (Burt Reynolds), he reluctantly finds himself in a local war between the Mexican military and the repressed Yaqui Indians. Based on the novel THE CALIFORNIO by Robert MacLeod and directed by Tom Gries (WILL PENNY). I enjoyed this western more than I probably should have. The acting is pretty weak (Brown is stone faced, Raquel Welch has a dreadful Spanish accent and Reynolds is about an Indian as Max Von Sydow) but it's crammed with action and moves nicely along though the ending is pretty much a fizzle. It does what it set out to do which is more than many movies can say and though its aims are low, it accomplishes them. Spain does a nice job standing in for Mexico and there's a rousing score by Jerry Goldsmith. With Fernando Lamas, Dan O'Herlihy, Eric Braeden and Soldedad Miranda.