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The Spikes Gang. Will (Gary Grimes), Les (Ron Howard) and Tod (Charlie Martin Smith), teenage farm boys living near the Mexican border, stumble upon Harry Spikes (Lee Marvin), a local bandit...
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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.
Apr 11, 1974 · The Spikes Gang: Directed by Richard Fleischer. With Lee Marvin, Gary Grimes, Ron Howard, Charles Martin Smith. Three farm boys in the Old West help a wounded bank robber who teaches them the trade.
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- Drama, Western
- Richard Fleischer
- 1974-04-11
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 wounded gunman helped by three boys,...
The Spikes Gang is a solid Western movie in that late 60s and 70s style and will provide a fine ride to the right kind of audience. Not a masterpiece but one of those Western movies that got you invested in the characters and provides more than just some stylish made bum bum.
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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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. The gang of men go on a crime spree and are converted to outlaws with a price on their heads.