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Synopsis: Rugged trail boss and reformed criminal Pike promises his honest wealthy employer Morgan that he will venture across the desert to deliver $86,000 dollars in payroll money to a ranch in Sonora, Mexico. Pike makes an uneasy alliance with smooth, yet shifty gambler Tyree in order to successfully complete his dangerous mission. During their perilous trek Pike and Tyree encounter desperate prostitute Catherine and her loyal ace martial artist half-breed companion Kashtok. Meanwhile, ruthless bounty hunter Kiefer and numerous greedy others give dogged chase.
Genre: Western
Director(s): Antonio Margheriti
Production: Anchor Bay Entertainment
 
IMDB:
5.9
PG
Year:
1975
103 min
73 Views


I protect your tail.. you watch mine.

-And when we get there?

-Once we cross that big river..

... all bets are off.

-Why should I trust you anymore than them?

-Because they're dead.

And you wanna stay alive.

Dying is way of living for some people, Tyree.

Make sure you won't have that problem.

You know something, Pike?

We are practically...invisible.

I mean everyone is out looking for only one darky.

And now there is two of us.

How are they gonna know you now?

You always carry a sack of snakes with you?

-That's a story that have never been told

-Wll I've seen you throw snakes....

..but can you shoot?

-You'll just have to wait a find out.

Seems like.... somebody has to move

Seems like.

Now friend...

..we can't tell wich side you're moving on

That one or this one?

I haven't made up my mind yet.

You ehh..need any help making up your mind?

Never have.

All right.

He seemed to want something more

from you than just money.

There are they

..lets ride after them!

-Well ehat do you think?

-They have shown the way.

I still do not know if you can shoot.

Hey, look at them spurs!

Yeah.. these two are shot up pretty bad.

I told you that we were coming up behind Pike.

Yep,, and so were they. This one was married.

Too bad his widow aint around.

-Are you a gambling man, Pike?

-I do no gambling.

Do you think its going to be

like that all the way, Pike?

What's wrong?

Is all that money loosing it sweetness?

Ahh. It's getting sweeter all the time.

It's just like with a woman, Pike.

Once you start to like them.,

--always hungry.

-How about a cigare?

-I do no smoking, either.

Tell me something. When I'm not near

are you thinking of keeping all that money?

-You mean..eh... splitting with you?

-Now, that aint a bad idea.

Well, don't get your hopes up.

Think about it,won't you Pike?

It would be unnatural if you didn't.

You're the same as me.

Maybe... before....

..but..it's different now.

I'm just practising.

I hope so.

Oh my darling, Oh my darling.

Oh... my dar..ling... Clementine.

You walken out..... forever.

Dreadful story, Clementine...

You've finished?

-I am now.

-Let's go.

Please.

What the hell are you doing?

Sh*t, Mr! We aint got nothing.

-You rode with Pike?

-Yeah, but weren't the only ones...

..and he was lot better than us.

-But little eyes like you gotta see a lot.

-We didn't see nothing, sir, I swear.

-Are you going afte Pike too?

-I might be the one that's gonna kill him.

Pike he don't die so easy.

The dead is dead, and that's my problem.

You two are gonna ride with me.

Or?

With him.

Hey Pike. You know something?

I've been thinking.

I know why I'm risking my hide.

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Eric Bercovici

Eric Bercovici (February 27, 1933 – February 9, 2014) was an American television/film producer and screenwriter. He was best known for producing and adapting the screenplay for the 1980 television miniseries Shōgun.Born in New York City in 1933 to screenwriter Leonardo Bercovici, he studied theater at Yale University. His career had barely begun when his father was blacklisted from the late 1940s through the late 1950s. Eric Bercovici then went to Europe to work on films, returning to the U.S. in 1965. He then began writing episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., I Spy, and The Danny Thomas Hour. He wrote the screenplays for the 1968 films Hell in the Pacific and Day of the Evil Gun. In the 1970s, he wrote episodes for Hawaii Five-O and created the series Assignment Vienna and its pilot Assignment: Munich. In 1977, he adapted John Ehrlichman's novel, The Company, into a miniseries titled Washington: Behind Closed Doors.In 1980, Bercovici adapted James Clavell's 1975 novel, Shōgun, about an English seaman marooned in 17th century Japan, into a nine-hour miniseries of the same name. He was also a producer of the series. Shōgun won three of its 14 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Miniseries, and all three of its Golden Globe nominations, including Best TV Series – Drama. At the time, it was also one of the highest-rated miniseries in television history, second only to Roots.Bercovici would finish out the 1980s and his writing/producing career for such series as McClain's Law, Chicago Story and Noble House, also based on a Clavell novel. When not writing screenplays, Bercovici wrote crime novels. more…

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