BANDOLERO (DVD/1967/FR&SP-DUB/ENG&SP-SUB) DVD

Bandolero!
James Stewart and Dean Martin are atypically cast as outlaws in Bandolero! The film begins as Dee Bishop (Martin) and his gang are about to be hanged. The Scripture-spouting executioner turns out to be Dee's brother Mace (Stewart), who helps the desperadoes escape. They are pursued by a sheriff (George Kennedy), whose lady friend (Raquel Welch) has the hots for Dee. The brothers try to go straight, but before they can make up their mind they find themselves surrounded by Mexican bandidos and are forced to team up with the sheriff to fight them off. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast James Stewart as Mace Bishop Dean Martin as Dee Bishop Raquel Welch as Maria George Kennedy as Sheriff Johnson Andrew Prine as Roscoe Will Geer as Pop Chaney Clint Ritchie as Babe Denver Pyle as Carter Rudy Diaz as Angel Sean McClory as Robbie Harry Carey Jr. as Cort Hayjack Don "Red" Barry as Hawkins

Crew Alfred Sweeney - Art Director Jack Martin Smith - Art Director Terry Morse, Jr. - First Assistant Director Andrew V. McLaglen - Director Folmar Blangsted - Editor Jerry Goldsmith - Composer (Music Score) William H. Clothier - Cinematographer Robert L. Jacks - Producer David Dockendorf - Sound/Sound Designer Herman Lewis - Sound/Sound Designer James Lee Barrett - Screenwriter Stanley L. Hough - Short Story Author

Bandolero!
"I was a whore at 13 and my family of 12 never went hungry," Raquel Welch's newly widowed Maria Stoner tells George Kennedy's lovesick sheriff early on in this average American-made spaghetti Western. It is hard to know today whether such lines were actually meant to be delivered tongue in cheek or whether screenwriter James Lee Barrett merely attempted to shock. Certain sequences in Bandolero! -- chiefly involving James Stewart impersonating a devoted hangman -- are definitely written and performed for comedy and the graphic violence in the climactic battle is choreographed much like the era's Italian Westerns, a genre never meant to be taken at all serious. And neither, it seems, should Bandolero! ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
 

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General Specifications: Language Options: English, French, Spanish Subtitle Options: English, Spanish Sound Processing: DD2: Dolby Digital Stereo DD1: Dolby Digital Mono Additional Features: cc Trailer Spanish Trailer "Raquel Welch Theater" (15 Minutes) DVD Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1: Cinemascope MPAA Rating: PG13 DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 106 min   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- 1. Violence in Val Verde 2. Main Titles 3. San Antonio 4. The Hangman 5. The New Hangman 6. A Rich Woman 7. The Widow & the Hangman 8. Maria's Friend 9. Hanging Day 10. Escape 11. The Hangman's Withdrawal 12. Ambush 13. Brothers 14. Bandit Country 15. A Lady Among Outlaws 16. Bandoleros 17. To Tell the Truth 18. A Perfect Pair 19. Ghost Town 20. Sons of a Farmer 21. Just a Feeling 22. It's Over 23. July's Proposal 24. Where's the Money? 25. Bandolero Battle 26. Maria's Hero 27. It Almost Worked 28. End Titles