Hannie Caulder

Hannie Caulder is a 1971 British Western film directed by Burt Kennedy and starring Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, and Ernest Borgnine.

After a disastrous failed bank robbery raid, the inept Clemens gang, three brothers, arrive at the horse station.

The brothers then go on a crime spree, while Caulder recruits bounty hunter Thomas Price to help her get revenge by training her to be a gunfighter.

When bandidos surround the Bailey house, a gun battle erupts, but Hannie is unable to kill a man face-to-face.

His attempt to take down Frank for a reward goes awry, because Emmett throws a knife into Price's belly, mortally wounding him.

Before Hannie Caulder was released, Tigon and Curtwel co-produced The Sorcerers (1967), a horror film starring Boris Karloff.

"[1] The review noted the lack of dialogue from Welch and that the Clemens brothers in the film are allowed some "rather tedious verbal horseplay".

A bouillabaisse of elements that should not work together but do – lyricism, graphic violence, moral contemplation, broad humour, feminist inquiry – it is a masterful hybrid of tried and true Hollywood conventions and the more confrontational style of the Italian Westerns that supplanted American oaters in the mainstream consciousness".

"[12] Dominique Mainon and James Ursini note in The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women On-Screen that "With Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead (1995), producer-star Sharon Stone revisits the domain carved out by Raquel Welch in Hannie Caulder.

[14] It was again released in the U.S. on November 15, 2016, as a digitally restored signature edition Blu-ray with four new bonus features including an audio commentary by Western expert and director Alex Cox, "Exploitation or Redemption?"

a 12-minute featurette on the examination of rape-revenge movies with Ben Sher, a 21-minute interview with cultural historian Sir Christopher Frayling on the making of Hannie Caulder, and the history of Tigon Studios titled "Win or Lose" and a 10-page essay titled "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" by film critic Kim Morgan in digital and booklet form.