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
83 Views


Looks like some kind of work camp.

Yeah.

I think this is about as far as we go.

Kinda thought you'ld remember that.

Like you'ld care for my promise

-I helped you to get here.

-That's right.

And you are planning on

keeping the rest of it, huh?

You would'nt respect a man who

wouldn't keep his word, would you Pike?

After all..you're the man who

gave his word to Morgan?

-Aint you had enough fighting?

-Aint the point.

Do we do it on foot?

That's right.

We do it on foot.

Now that's real sneaky, Pike.

Real sneaky.

I never figured you for a low down

trick like that.

But I figured you'ld.

Fighting you don't pleasue me, Pike.

It's the money I want.

Senor!

Senor! Senor!

Senor! They are coming! They are coming!

-Chico, what's wrong?

-Many of them. An army.

-Where are they?

-Over there. On the hill.

Chico, I want you to ride ahead..

Go to Sonora and ask where

Morgan's ranch is. Do you understand?

Si, senor. Morgan ranch.

I understand.

What about the men?

I'll take care of men.

I'll catch up with you in a little while.

Now, keep on riding no matter what...

...and give no one this money except

Mrs. Morgan.

Chico...

...you tell her that Pike sent you.

I tell her that I said to

give you home.

Si, senor.

Kashtok.

You'll go on with him, understand?

I want you to take care of him.

-You go too.

-I kind of figured doing that any way.

Aint you kinda scared?

I take my chances.

Amigo!

Luck.

Those are the men with the money?

Then why have we stopped?

-Not all that simple.

-No?

To me that's a look in a hat.

..easier than robbing a bank.

Lot of dead men thought the same thing.

Move in when I say.

We aint gonna see none of that

money the way he's giving it away.

Yeah. First there were three of us.

Now there's more than I can count.

Remember what he said. Dead is dead.

You aint got the guts.

Mr. Kiefer?

Mr. Kiefer, sir.

I heard some talking last night

at Calvera's camp.

Something you should... know about.

I don't know who was talking.

I could not see his face.

I heard someone said he was

gonna shoot you.

Yeah, shoot you.

Shoot you in the back.

I remember now.

It was Dumper.

It was his idea.

I didn't have anything to do with it!

I figured you might start worrying.

Oh Hell.. I aint figured you'ld give a damn.

Then I guess we both were wrong.

Amigo....

You shouldn't go shoot in the

wrong direction.

Those we want are there.

Now, senor Kiefer...

..I think my men will do it alone.

Vamonos!

It's too late.

No.

Only for you.

We don't wait anymore.

-How many do you figure out there?

-Couldn't be more than 40

40 against two.

Pretty bad odds.

For them.

It's shame that you never had any

of my fine cigars from New Orleans.

How come you never tried one before, Pike?

Making a round I was doing no smoking.

But I guess I will now.

Haul up there, Tyree!

We've got three seconds!

Hey, how come you didn't tell me

you couldn't swim?

You can't do everything perfect, Pike.

Besides I was just trying to

keep my gun dry.

Well...

Are you ready to take this long hard..... walk?

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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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