Land Raiders (film)
1969 film by Nathan H. Juran
Land Raiders is a 1969 American Western film directed by Nathan Juran and starring Telly Savalas, George Maharis, Arlene Dahl, and Janet Landgard. It was produced by Charles H. Schneer, who was best known for producing most of Ray Harryhausen's features, three of which were also directed by Juran.
Plot
In the 1870s Arizona town of Forge River, cattle baron Vince Carden (Telly Savalas) is estranged from his brother, Paul (George Maharis). The men are of Mexican ancestry, but Vince has renounced that part of his heritage. Vince hates Native Americans and pays out bounties on Indian scalps, then benefits financially by being able to buy up the cheap land caused by the strife and bloodshed. Paul is rudderless, haunted by a past romance that ended with the death of his lover, for which some people think he was responsible.
A wagon train joined by Paul is attacked by braves in retaliation for a raid that was fomented by Vince. The only survivor besides Paul is a woman returning home from her education back east. Later, Vince arranges to murder a negotiator sent from Washington, DC, to arrange a land-sharing agreement with the Indians, in a manner for which the Indians will be blamed. Paul witnesses the attack, but when the townspeople gather to decide what to do about it, he does not explicitly tell them what he saw.
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