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- Vincent Canby of The New York Times was not impressed: "It's a movie without a center, with no coherent tone, directed by Richard Fleischer, fresh from such triumphs as The Don Is Dead and Soylent Green. The entire enterprise is as convincing as the Spanish landscapes, which are meant to suggest the American Southwest but don't."
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May 2, 1974 · "The Spikes Gang," which opened yesterday at the Trans-Lux West and other theaters, is a Western about an elderly desperado and the three young farm boys he tries, unsuccessfully, to turn...
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.
After helping bring the aging man back to health, the trio decide to escape their humdrum lives by becoming outlaws themselves. Failing at their first attempt to rob a bank, the boys convince the...
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- Richard Fleischer
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- Lee Marvin
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, and...
Nov 9, 2021 · The Spikes Gang (1974) Three teenagers — Will (Gary Grimes), Les (Ron Howard) and Tod (Charles Martin Smith) — rescue a wounded outlaw named Harry Spikes (Lee Marvin) after finding him near their homes. They put him up in a barn, fetch him food and drink and help nurse him back to health.
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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.
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.
