Product Details

• Actors: Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine, Christopher Lee, Jack Elam
• Directors: Burt Kennedy
• Writers: Burt Kennedy, Bob Richards, David Haft, Ian Quicke, Peter Cooper
• Producers: Patrick Curtis, Tony Tenser
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: May 6, 1991
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301996100
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #9,614 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Revenge western with Raquel, June 4, 2004

By	T O'Brien (Chicago, Il United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Hannie Caulder is a surprisingly good western with a very good cast. After a failed bank robbery, three bumbling brothers come upon a lone house in the desert. They kill the man of the house and rape his wife, Hannie. The trio burns the house and leaves her for dead. However, Hannie survives hoping to one day get her revenge on the three gunmen. She runs into a bounty hunter who begins to teach her how to handle and fire a gun with some sort of accuracy so she will be able to exact her revenge on the brothers. In a way, this is the female version of Nevada Smith with Hannie chasing after three gunmen just like Steve McQueen's character, Max, did in Nevada Smith. The gunfights are well choreographed with blood squibs, ala The Wild Bunch. Hannie Caulder is a very good revenge western that is well worth a watch.

Raquel Welch stars as frontier wife turned gunfighter, Hannie Caulder, who teams up with a bounty hunter so she can kill the men who raped her and killed her husband. She does a lot with so little, and it doesn't help that she never looked better than she did in this movie. Much of the first half hour has her in a poncho and nothing else. Robert Culp is also excellent as infamous bounty hunter, Thomas Luther Price, who teaches Hannie how to handle a gun. The bumbling Clemens brothers, Emmett, Frank, and Rufus, are played by Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam, and Strother Martin. For such despicable people, this movie gives them lots of comedic moments. Christopher Lee stars in a small part as a gunmaker, Bailey, who makes a specialized gun for Hannie. The movie also stars Stephen Boyd and Aldo Sambrell in uncredited roles. It is a shame there is no DVD release for Hannie Caulder since it is such a beautifully shot movie. For a better than average revenge western with the gorgeous Raquel Welch, check out Hannie Caulder!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars New age woman in an old fashioned western, October 18, 1999

By A Customer

I think this may be one of my favorites of westerns because of the angle it takes on revenge. Ironically enough, it is the hardened bounty hunter who tries to persuade Hannie Caulder to walk away from the situation. A reversal of roles, very interesting for a movie made back in the late sixties, several years before the Women's Movement. Welch's acting is believable and Robert Culp is wonderful as Thomas Luther Price. Christopher Lee is great as the gunsmith who watches the relationship between Caulder and Price grow and tries to persuade Caulder to "throw her gun in the water bucket and ride out with Thomas and don't look back". The movie does not end on an entirely positive note either - as Caulder kills the last of the Clements brothers, her revenge is complete, but Price's words come back to her "win or lose, you lose Hannie Caulder". I believe that this movie, for all it's violence does have an undercurrent of anti-gun, anti-violence solutions to such problems. And I especially liked the fact that Hannie Caulder was portrayed as a strong woman. She knew what she wanted, and she had the strength to see it through, no matter what the consequences were. An interesting western to watch and think about.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Underrated Western scores with style, May 23, 1999

By A Customer

Raquel Welch is Hannie Caulder: a woman who is raped and left for dead by a trio of ruthless outlaws. Her quest for vengence is guided by a sympathetic bounty hunter (in an unusual, but effective, performance by Robert Culp) and an exiled gunsmith (Christopher Lee). This is sadly an underrated Western that should receive more fanfare than it has. The movie is beautifully photographed; the script adult and sophisticated, edged with a sense of mystery. The music is sweeping and faintly similiar in style to the Elmer Bernstein score for The Magnificent Seven. Welch runs the gauntlet of emotions, with determination and regret underpinning her performance. Surprisingly, the director did a good job of casting the villians and characterizing them like a cut-rate version of the Three Stooges. All in all, Hannie Caulder is a nice, fresh approach to the usual Wild West story of guns and revenge.