![]() ![]() It looks like small explosive charges were put in their mouths to simulate gunshots, because their heads are all blown off. Deep in Texas’s Big Bend National Park, the Rio Grande divides the US from Mexico. The old dead ones are so faded that they have had a new pattern painted on them, so there's no telling what they were. The live rattlesnakes we see appear to be Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnakes. Delon faints and is sick for a couple of days but he recovers quickly because of some herbs she put on the bite wound. This works only in the movies, so don't try it at home. (This movie was made before snarky guys at home had the capability to pause the picture, so you could get away with less realism.) Then follows the usual cowboy cut-and-suck snakebite treatment - Joey Bishop says "Make bleed," Dean Martin cuts the leg with his knife, and the Indian woman sucks out the poison. Close-ups show them to be crispy old dead snakes that have been propped up. (Because all snakes must die.) We see four of them laying around outside the basket. (Because all movie snakes always want to kill all humans.) Martin rides up in a hurry and starts shooting the snakes. Martin says "He either likes girls or he's crazy about snakes." The medicine man rides away and Delon falls off his horse and gets snakebit on the leg. The woman screams and despite Martin's warnings not to, Delon rides down to save her. The medicine man opens a large basket and we see two rattlesnakes crawl out of it. Among the rocks they see a Comanche medicine man performing a Death Ceremony, shaking rattles dancing and chanting while a young Comanche woman sits tied up on a horse. Never mind that there is no river between Louisiana and Texas and that the country they travel through is classic California foothills and that, like all westerns, they eventually find themselves in the rocky Alabama Hills in the Owens Valley. Dean Martin, a cowboy, Alain Delon, a Spanish Nobleman, and Joey Bishop, an American Indian, are travelling from Shreveport Louisiana across the river into Texas through Comanche territory on their way to Mocassin Flats. This is a western farce with a lot of corny and not-so-funny comedy gags. Don Andrea rescues an Indian maiden, Lonetta, tames some longhorns, competes with Sam for Phoebe's affections, eludes a Comanche war party and the cavalry (who have come to Moccasin Flats to celebrate Texas' statehood) and ultimately saves the town and gets his girl.Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film. Don Andrea flees across the river to Texas, where he meets up with Sam Hollis and his Indian sidekick, Kronk, who are carrying rifles to the town of Moccasin Flats. The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la Casala is stopped by the Cavalry over a matter of honor. ![]() Martin teams up with fugitive from justice Alain Delon, a Spanish nobleman. Don Andrea rescues an Indian maiden, Lonetta, tames some longhorns, competes with Sam for Phoebe's affections, eludes a Comanche war party and the cavalry (who have come to Moccasin Flats to celebrate Texas' statehood) and ultimately saves the town and gets his girl. Dean Martin stars as an amiable gunrunner in the tongue-in-cheek western. The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la Casala is stopped by the Cavalry over a matter of honor. The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la Casala is stopped by the Cavalry over. ![]()
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