Charro! (1969) on Netflix
G19691h 38m
Jess Wade rode with Vince Hackett's outlaw gang and now wants to go straight. When a gold cannon is stolen from Mexico, Hackett lays the theft at Wade's door.
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Plot summary
Word reaches Jess Wade that an old flame, Tracy Winters, will meet him in a seedy Mexican saloon. Billy Roy Hackett, Vince's younger brother, calls the gang inside, and Jess clears the other drinkers out before guns are drawn. Gunner stops him at the door, takes his gun and marches him to the mountain hideout. There Vince tells him the outlaws have stolen a gold-plated cannon from Emperor Maximilian's war against Benito Juárez, and that a wanted poster names Jess among the thieves, with a neck wound from a guard's bullet. The gang pins Jess to the ground and burns his neck with a branding iron, then rides off on his horse and leaves him in the desert. The cannon is being used to hold a town to ransom.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Charro! (1969)
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- Warren Beatty wanted Elvis Presley to co-star with him in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and John Wayne wanted him for True Grit, but manager Colonel Tom Parker insisted Presley be top billed, and Presley was paid more money to make Charro! than he would have earned on those films.
- Elvis Presley signed up for Charro! on the strength of a serious, song-free script, but arrived for his first day of shooting on July 22, 1968, to find it rewritten beyond recognition; he did get the main character's name changed from Jesus Wade to Jess Wade.
- Quentin Tarantino used the name of Charro!'s director, Charles Marquis Warren, for Samuel L. Jackson's character in his western The Hateful Eight.
- Charro!'s planned opening scene, built around female nudity, was dropped in favour of the opening gunfight, and a scene of a nude Ina Balin climbing from a bath was removed too, though the complete unedited version restored it.
- Elvis Presley was a long-time gun owner and collector of firearms who used to practice his quick draw with Clint Eastwood, and he made sure he could show off his skills with firearms in Charro!.
- Charro! was the only Elvis Presley film in which he did not sing on screen: apart from the main title theme, played over the opening credits, the film has no songs at all.
