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Sep 8, 2020 · I sat through The Spikes Gang, an episodic western, and was never bored when he was on screen. That’s not to say the other actors were slacking because everyone turns in heartfelt performances—including cameos by Arthur Hunnicutt and Noah Beery, Jr.
- David Cranmer
Nov 9, 2021 · Review: Take three likeable young actors, add a grizzled Lee Marvin performance and an intelligence script, and this makes for a fine coming of age Western. Plus there’s an unexpected twist at the end and more violence than you would expect.
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The Spikes Gang is a 1974 American Western film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Lee Marvin. Produced by the Mirisch Company and based on the novel The Bank Robber by Giles Tippette, the supporting cast features Gary Grimes, Charles Martin Smith and Ron Howard.
Sep 10, 2012 · An engaging Western, based on Giles Tippette's novel The Bank Robber but designed more or less as a sequel to Robert Benton's Bad Company, with Marvin as a woun.
The gang of men go on a crime spree and are converted to outlaws with a price on their heads. After escaping home, three young friends form a dynamic alliance of untamed youth. They meet an old man named Spikes with the experience only a master gunfighter can offer.
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- Richard Fleischer
Three teenage boys discover a gunshot outlaw and nurse him back to health in “The Spikes Gang,†a 1974 western directed by Richard Fleischer available for the first time on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber. Lee Marvin plays Harry Spikes, an outlaw who inspires Gary Grimes, Ron Howard and Charles Martin Smith to join him as outlaws.
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Review: Three teenage friends, Will ( Gary Grimes ), Les ( Ron Howard) and Tod ( Charles Martin Smith) are out in the countryside near their homes one day when they stumble upon a body lying in the undergrowth.
