Bandolero!
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Movie Reviews of Bandolero!
Movie Review: Campy but Fun Western
Summary: 4 Stars
How can a movie that has Jimmy Stewart, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, and Raquel Welch be all bad? Well this one is actually very entertaining. Welch manages to look immaculate despite a harrowing ride through the desert. Stewart and Martin are fine as brothers who are bad guys but really not "bad" guys. George Kennedy does a fine turn as a sheriff who is pursuing them and is in love with Raquel's character.
The opening bank robbery scene is really gripping and the scenery and cinematography is excellent.
Not a classic but still a highly enjoyable western from the 60's.
Movie Review: THESE ARE THE BAD GUYS?
Summary: 4 Stars
Sure, James Stewart and Dean Martin have been in better westerns, THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE and RIO BRAVO, to name a few. Both of the aforementioned classics had John Wayne. The Duke isn't needed here in this great little romp and stomp and Jimmy and Dino had to have a blast playing the bad guys for a change. BANDOLERO! has some great scenes outside of Raquel Welch baking in the Mexican sun. It's well paced, anti-cliched, yet true to the formula Andrew V. McLaglen honed his craft on. Jerry Goldsmith delivers a haunting soundtrack.Movie Review: half a good movie
Summary: 4 Stars
This film starts off like a speeding rocket, but fizzles out about half way
along. Any movie with Ms Welch is worth looking at. So is she. Jimmy Stewart's bank robbery scene is great by itself. So is Stewart's turn as a
hangman. Good fun, somewhat entertaining, well worth a view. TOM
Movie Review: Dour and downbeat but well-staged Western with emphasis on hanging and rape; an unusual mixture but smoothly assembled...
Summary: 3 Stars
In the sixties Stewart has shown no signs of losing interest in the Western, completing three for Andrew V. McLaglen--the emotional but dignified 'Shenandoah,' 'The Rare Breed,' and 'Bandolero!' He also joins his old colleague, Henry Fonda, for 'Firecreek' and made "The Cheyenne Social Club," under the direction of Gene Kelly...
Stewart embraced the Western relatively late in his career, but did so whole-heartedly and has earned special place in the history of the genre... He probably didn't expect McLaglen to inspire him to a character excessively theatrical, McLaglen's forte was action, and this he delivered in a professional, if hardly spectacular style... The entire tone of the picture, which co-stars Dean Martin as his outlaw younger brother and Raquel Welch, singularly out of place in a Western setting, is decided1y superficial...
Raquel Welch seems painfully ill at ease as the grieving widow of a man killed by fugitive outlaw brothers (Martin and Stewart) in a holdup... She comes across more as a camp-follower than as an outraged widow, who gradually falls in love with Martin... Her suit is aided by Stewart, who would like his younger brother to leave his life of crime and settle down to something more respectable
The plot piles on the Western clichés... It is the post-Civil War west; older brother Stewart fought in the Union Army, younger brother Martin in the Confederate ranks... Pretending to be a hangman (he has stolen the guy's getup on the road) Stewart rescues Martin from the scaffold... After they've held up a bank, intrepid sheriff George Kennedy chases Stewart and Martin to Mexico, with hostage Welch in tow... In a peculiar plot twist, the outlaws find themselves temporary allies with the sheriff when they are set upon by Mexican bandits...
McLaglen does keep the action moving, and Welch tries to be sexy in the style audiences had come to expect of her, but is suffocated under her frustrated widow character...
Movie Review: Beautifully photographed western
Summary: 3 Stars
Just out on DVD, 20th Century-Fox's "Bandolero!" was originally released in June of 1968, most likely for the rural theatre and summer drive-in market. It's an unpretentious western, with a story not much better than the average episode of TV's "The Big Valley," but it's stylishly directed and its stars, Jimmy Stewart and Dean Martin, playing brothers, look as though they're having a good time. The disc is being marketed as a Raquel Welch picture, but the movie really belongs to Stewart and Martin. The DVD features a stunning 16X9 transfer of the original Panavision lensing, done by William Clothier. The print is so pristine it often looks as though it were shot yesterday. The movie is also helped by a marvelous score by Jerry Goldsmith, presented here in a fine Dolby Digital 2.0 remastering of the original 4-track stereo. I wish Fox had done the soundtrack one better by remastering it in the proper Dolby Digital 4.0, but the DVD sounds and looks so good as it is I really can't complain. One thing I can complain about is that on the disc's menu screen the picture that's supposed to be Dean Martin is actually Stuart Whitman! Who's the dummy at Fox responsible for that?