Two incompetent Western outlaws engineer several failed crimes, including a botched stagecoach holdup. Fred Williamson, a tough-guy perennial in blaxploitation movies, does a rare comedy turn as a blundering patsy to Richard Pryor's slick con man.
Acting
Pryor's con-man charisma carrying every frame he's in.
Direction
Williamson directing himself—ambitious, messy, fascinating.
Director
Fred Williamson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Williamson directed this between his iconic Hammer roles, desperate to prove range beyond action stardom.
Part of a brief 1970s wave of Black Westerns including 'The Legend of Nigger Charley'—genre reclamation with complicated legacies.
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