Friday Flicks

My two favorite B-Westerns are easily The Professionals and 100 Rifles. The fact that these movies star Raquel Welch (left) and Claudia Cardinale (right) respectively, is, I assure you, a total coincidence.

Really.

The Professionals is the superior movie of the two, boasting a solid cast. In addition to Claudia Cardinale The Professionals also featured Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin*, Jack Palance, Robert Ryan and Woody Strode. A fine ensemble that makes for B-movie gold.

100 Rifles is, by objective standards, not a god movie at all. It is, however, a very fun movie, if your concept of fun includes a scantily clad Raquel Welch alongside the 'acting' of Jim Browwn and Burt Reynolds. Plus, lots of explosions. Really, how could it not be deliciously bad? This film needs to make it to DVD post-haste.

* A brief aside: if Lee Marvin were alive today he would be the ideal person to play the Timlinator in the movie dramatization of the 2004 Red Sox. Both men possess the quiet demeanor and craggy features that suggest not only could they kill you with their pinky, they could survive in the Siberian wilderness as long as they had two sticks and a pocket knife.