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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like The Spikes Gang, it strips youthful Western adventure of its romance, following a boy’s hard education amid rough labour, violence and the intimidating codes of an older frontier.
02
Why this pick
Its aging outlaws, uneasy mentor-like bonds and offbeat humour share Fleischer’s interest in a scruffy, morally compromised West rather than a clean heroic myth.
03
Why this pick
This is another unsentimental coming-of-age Western: an adolescent runs from home into outlaw life, discovering that freedom, friendship and bravado carry severe consequences.
04
Why this pick
A wry, lived-in outlaw Western that balances camaraderie and melancholy, watching famous bandits collide with a changing country and the limits of their own mythology.
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Why this pick
For the elegiac side of The Spikes Gang: a bruised, affectionate portrait of men chasing independence and old codes while modern life steadily closes around them.
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01 / THE STORY
Harry Spikes (Lee Marvin) is an aging bank robber of the fading Old West. Injured and near death, he is found and mended back to health by three impressionable youths who are lifelong friends -- Wil (Gary Grimes), Tod (Charles Martin Smith), and Les (Ron Howard). They refuse any payment from Spikes for their efforts, and when he's healed he leaves saying he won't forget their kindness. Later, after enduring a beating from his father, and encouraged by Spikes's reminiscences of the good life, Wil decides to run away from home seeking excitement and easy living, and the other 2 boys decide to follow.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Harry Spikes
Will
Abel Young
Cowboy
Billy
Sheriff
Les
Tod
