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Thu, Dec 29, 2005
Land Raiders
Land Raiders (1969), a quasi-Euro Western starring Telly Savalas and George Maharis, is pretty typical of the kinds of movies producer Charles H. Schneer made when he wasn't partnered with animator Ray Harryhausen: workmanlike but not bad, undistinguished but competent, resolutely B-movie fodder but slightly above average for its place on the bill.
Savalas and Maharis are improbably cast as Hispanic Cain and Abel-like siblings, Savalas as Vince Carden, an immoral cattle baron with no regard for human life, and Maharis as his long-estranged brother Paul, a man haunted by the death of a lover some years before, a death many in his Arizona Territory hometown believe was murder.
Partly Land Raiders is a racial drama. Vince, born Vincente Cardenas, "becomes a gringo" in the eyes of younger brother Paul/Pablo. Vince has married a fair-skinned American woman (Arlene Dahl) an... Read the entire review
Land Raiders