100 Rifles is a 1969 western directed by Tom Gries based on Robert MacLeod's 1966 novel The Californio, and stars Jim Brown, Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch and Fernando Lamas. The film was shot in Spain. The original music score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith.
Set in 1912 Sonora, Mexico, an Arizona lawman named Lyedecker (Brown) travels to a remote village looking for Yaqui Joe (Reynolds), a half-Indian, half-white bank robber who has stolen $6,000 (in Arizona) to buy 100 rifles for his Yaqui people who are being repressed by the government.
Lyedecker isn't concerned with Yaqui Joe's cause of helping his tribe, and all he cares about is getting the money returned to a Phoenix bank within his jurisdiction. The two men escape to the hills where they are joined by Sarita (Welch), a beautiful Indian revolutionary. They eventually become allies and fight for the Indians.
Taking over the leadership of the Yaquis, Lyedecker ambushes Verdugo's train while Sarita distracts the attention of the soldiers on board by taking a public shower. The train is later derailed in a town and the culmination of the film is a fierce gun battle which Yaqui Joe and his people finally win.
Cast
Jim Brown as Lyedecker
Raquel Welch as Sarita
Burt Reynolds as Yaqui Joe Herrera
Fernando Lamas as General Verdugo
Dan O'Herlihy as Steven Grimes
Eric Braeden as Lt. Franz Von Klemme (as Hans Gudegast)
Michael Forest as Humara
Aldo Sambrell as Sgt. Paletes
Soledad Miranda as Girl in Hotel
Alberto Dalbés as Padre Francisco
Charly Bravo as Lopez (as Carlos Bravo)
José Manuel Martín as Sarita's Father)
Akim Tamiroff as General Romero (scenes deleted)
Sancho Gracia as Mexican leader
Lorenzo Lamas as Indian boy
Locations
Filmed in Almeria, Spain.
Set in 1912 Sonora, Mexico, an Arizona lawman named Lyedecker (Brown) travels to a remote village looking for Yaqui Joe (Reynolds), a half-Indian, half-white bank robber who has stolen $6,000 (in Arizona) to buy 100 rifles for his Yaqui people who are being repressed by the government.
Lyedecker isn't concerned with Yaqui Joe's cause of helping his tribe, and all he cares about is getting the money returned to a Phoenix bank within his jurisdiction. The two men escape to the hills where they are joined by Sarita (Welch), a beautiful Indian revolutionary. They eventually become allies and fight for the Indians.
Taking over the leadership of the Yaquis, Lyedecker ambushes Verdugo's train while Sarita distracts the attention of the soldiers on board by taking a public shower. The train is later derailed in a town and the culmination of the film is a fierce gun battle which Yaqui Joe and his people finally win.
Cast
Jim Brown as Lyedecker
Raquel Welch as Sarita
Burt Reynolds as Yaqui Joe Herrera
Fernando Lamas as General Verdugo
Dan O'Herlihy as Steven Grimes
Eric Braeden as Lt. Franz Von Klemme (as Hans Gudegast)
Michael Forest as Humara
Aldo Sambrell as Sgt. Paletes
Soledad Miranda as Girl in Hotel
Alberto Dalbés as Padre Francisco
Charly Bravo as Lopez (as Carlos Bravo)
José Manuel Martín as Sarita's Father)
Akim Tamiroff as General Romero (scenes deleted)
Sancho Gracia as Mexican leader
Lorenzo Lamas as Indian boy
Locations
Filmed in Almeria, Spain.
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