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16/04/1971 Action, Adventure, Western 1h 33m
85
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Their gun and guts for hire... and a blank check is their price

Overview

A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train and holds the passengers as hostages unless his brother is released. Now both the Americans and Mexicans are baffled as to what to do. One of the passengers — who wrote the letter for their captor — has a suggestion: call mercenaries Hank Brackett and Johnny Reech. They do, and as expected they do come up with a plan, but the president of the railroad is not sure if it will work.

  1. Douglas Hayes

    Writer, Director

Top billed cast

  1. Rod Taylor

    Hank Brackett

  2. Dennis Cole

    Johnny Reach

  3. Fernando Lamas

    Chucho Morales

  4. John McIntire

    Cyrus Davenport

  5. Michael Ansara

    Paco Morales

  6. Tisha Sterling

    Beth Parkinson

  7. Melodie Johnson

    Miss Baker

  8. Reni Santoni

    Ricardo Sandoval

  9. Luciana Paluzzi

    Juanita Sierra-Perez

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak
Written by Wuchak on 2018-04-05
Unique train-oriented Western with Rod Taylor and several notables of the era

RELEASED IN 1971 and written & directed by Douglas Heyes, "Powderkeg" chronicles events in 1914 when Mexican renegades led by Chucho Morales (Fernando Lamas) hijack a train for leverage to get his brother out of jail in New Mexico (Michael Ansara). Two adventurer-mercenaries (Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole) are enlisted to rescue the 73 passengers and take care of the banditos.

While this was a TV movie, it’s pretty much as good as many theatrical Westerns of the late 60s/early 70s. The two stars, Taylor and Cole...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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