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100 Rifles

All they need is… 100 RIFLES

5.9(112)19691h 50m9

When half-breed Indian Yaqui Joe robs an Arizona bank, he is pursued by dogged lawman Lyedecker. Fleeing to Mexico, Joe is imprisoned by General Verdugo, who is waging a war against the Yaqui Indians. When Lyedecker attempts to intervene, he is thrown into prison as well. Working together, the two escape and take refuge in the hills, where Lyedecker meets beautiful Yaqui freedom fighter Sarita and begins to question his allegiances.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Language
English
  • mexico
  • based on novel or book
  • bank robber
  • lawman 
  • wanted man
  • mexican army
  • 1910s
  • phoenix, arizona
  • indigenous mexicans
  • yaqui indan
  • period film
  • african american

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Behind the camera

Director

Tom Gries

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG26 Mar 1969
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical1213 May 1969
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical164 Apr 1969
  • IrelandIE

    • Theatrical1520 Jun 1969

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100 Rifles was released on 26 March 1969.

Audience reviews

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  • J

    John Chard

    3/17/2017

    7/10

    Rifles or Trifles? 100 Rifles is directed by Tom Gries and Gries adapts to screenplay with Clair Huffaker from Robert MacLeod's novel The Californio. It stars Burt Reynolds, Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Fernando Lamas and Dan O'Herlihy. Music is by Jerry Goldsmith and cinematography by Cecilio Paniagua. Arizona lawman Lydecker (Brown) travels into Mexico to arrest bank robber Yaqui Joe Herrera (Reynolds), and lands…

  • W

    Wuchak

    5/23/2021

    7/10

    _**Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch and Jim Brown in an American Western shot in Spain**_ An Arizona sheriff (Jim Brown) travels to Sonora in 1912 to apprehend a half-breed bank robber (Burt Reynolds) who used the money to purchase 100 rifles for his tribe in their fight against a despotic Mexican general (Fernando Lamas). The lawman isn’t interested in his noble intentions and just wants to take him back to Phoenix, b…

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