Take a Hard Ride Page #4

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
76 Views


could not give.

I tried, but it was not there.

-Perhaps it is somethin that I have lost.

-Well..maybe you'll find it again.

Where? Back in the crypts of New Orleans?

No.

I am not going to chase rainbows

...as they say in your country.

-This aint my country.

-No?

I was told that you fought a war about that.

What's she say?

She said that we won the war.

Is that so? Why are they still

shooting at us then?

If they ever stopped, I

figured something is wrong.

She tell you a sad story?

What makes you think so?

It kinda figures, Pike.

I have known a lot of ladies,

Been to a lot of places.

Including New Orleans.

Everbody got sad story

in their past.

Some people more that others.

It aint no different.

Don't you ever shut up?

Talking makes me feel... I'm alive.

Lets me know I'm here.

You've always been a loner, Pike?

You kinda have that look in your eye,

tells people to stay away.

Depends on people.

-You don't like me much do you?

-Oh, I like you, Tyree.

But aint you the fella that's

gonna trying to kill me

..when we cross that river into Mexico?

Yep..that's right, Pike.

I told you that we aint gonna

find anything else.

But you're so Goddamn stubborn!

But you'll eat rabbits if you get

hungry enough!

-So high and mighty.

-I will eat no skunk.

All you have to do...

...is to skin it up, wash it, put it on

the fire, call it " prairie dog. "

If we wait for the chicken,

we starve to death.

-I told you.. I don't eat no skunk.

-Hold it!

-Hands up! Where is it?

-I aint got it.

Don't make a move.

There were supposed to be only one of them.

The fact is that we are gonna kill

you both in about 3 seconds from now

-What for?

-The money you got.

What money? We've got 16 cents between us!

But you are welcome to it all...

-Only chicken here!

-Chicken? You son of a b*tch!

Skunk is good enough for me,

You got a whole Goddamn chicken.

Hey, neither one of them is him.

And I'm expecting to see 86,000 dollars.

What?

What? You mean there's a n*gger

riding around with all that money?

That's right.

Too bad you aint him.

Come on, let's go!

You dumb bastard! We got better things to do!

86,000 dollars!

You see, Mr. Kiefer,

Just like we've been telling you.

Old Pike he's been this way.

He didn't take nothing off these fellas.

Wouldn't take us long.

Lot of stuff here.

He left it all for us.

Ladies things.

When are we gonna get him?

Why hurry? They are only carrying it closer

to where we can spend it.

Cangey! Look!

Come on!

Don't let them get away!

Come on! We got them now! If we get

across the bridge, we'll be rich men!

They did it! Move your ass!

Hey!

Come on, give me your foot.

Come on.

Hold on.

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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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