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The Spikes Gang
Why this pick
A bruised, morally alert revisionist Western with a strong Burt Lancaster presence, where youthful idealism collides with violence and compromised authority.
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MOVIE1971 1h 30m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Aging town constable Bob Valdez (Burt Lancaster) is tricked into killing an innocent man by powerful rancher Frank Tanner (Jon Cypher), whose hired gun R.L. Davis (Richard Jordan) shot up the hovel where the wrongly accused man and his Indian wife were trapped. Valdez believes it would be a fair gesture to raise $200 for the widow, $100 from Tanner and the rest from others in town.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Susan Clark
Gay Erin
Jon Cypher
Frank Tanner
Burt Lancaster
Valdez
Frank Silvera
Diego
Richard Jordan
R.L. Davis
Barton Heyman
El Segundo
Phil Brown
Malson