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| Grim sexual brutalization and violent meanness is promised on this sparse poster for Robert Gordon's The Gatling Gun |
During the Indian Wars of the 19th century, cowboys and Indians combat each other, until the American whites invent the Gatling Gun, a rolling machine gun that they use to mow down the natives.
The Gatling Gun is written by Joseph Van Winkle (Dark Places (1974)) and Mark Hanna (Raymie (1960)) and directed by Robert Gordon (Blind Spot (1947)).
There isn't much story to this war western, which also technically and in other ways lacks fundamental qualities, (the Apache Indians for some reason speak Spanish in it, for instance.) Interminable war scenes only slightly remedy these deficiencies. For anyone not prone to westerns, The Gatling Gun is likely to be intolerable to watch.
Listen to a grand piece of the film's score here
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[The Gatling Gun was released in May (USA) and runs 93 minutes. Shooting took place in New Mexico and California from April - May 1969. Little is known of the film's production and limited release. It was Gordon's last feature; he returned only with The American People in World War II (1973, documentary short). 292 IMDb users have given The Gatling Gun a 5.0/10 average rating.]
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