100 Rifles is a 1969 American Western film directed by Tom Gries and starring Jim Brown, Raquel Welch and Burt Reynolds.

[4] In 1912 Sonora, Mexico, Arizona lawman Lyedecker chases Yaqui Joe, a half-Yaqui, half-white bank robber who has stolen $6,000.

Lyedecker learns that Joe used the loot to buy 100 rifles for the Yaqui people, who are being repressed by the government.

The two men escape a Mexican firing squad and flee to the hills, where they are joined by Sarita, a beautiful Indian revolutionary.

The soldiers raid and burn a village that the rebels have just left, taking its children as hostages.

Sarita tells Lydecker that she will allow him to take Yaqui Joe with him back to Phoenix afterwards if he stays with them to help rescue the children.

Leading the Yaqui against Verdugo's forces, they ambush and derail the General's train and overcome his soldiers in an extended firefight.

Lyedecker decides to return home alone and allow Yaqui Joe to take over as the rebel leader.

"[7] Huffaker later requested his name be removed from the credits and replaced with the pseudonym Cecil Hanson because "the finished product... bears absolutely no resemblance to my original script."

[8] The leads were given to Raquel Welch (Gries: "in some situations, this woman is just a piece of candy but I think she will prove in this film that she can act as well"),[7] Jim Brown ("he's a great actor with a lot of appeal", said Gries),[7] and Burt Reynolds.

"It's an image I want to portray of a strong black man in breaking down social taboos.

[10] For his role, Brown was paid a salary of $200,000 in addition to five percent of the film's box office.

"Raquel had a Spanish accent that sounded like a cross between Carmen Miranda and ZaSu Pitts.

[14]"I spent the entire time refereeing fights between Jim Brown and Raquel Welch", said Reynolds.

[19] Quentin Tarantino said the "mediocre final product still seems like a shamefully wasted opportunity (I mean Jesus Christ, how do you fuck up a movie starring Jim Brown, Burt Reynolds and Raquel Welch?).