The Villain (released as Cactus Jack in the UK and Australia) is a 1979 American metrocolor Western comedy film directed by Hal Needham and starring Kirk Douglas, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ann-Margret, Paul Lynde (in his final film appearance), Foster Brooks, Strother Martin, Ruth Buzzi, Jack Elam, and Mel Tillis.

However, town boss Avery Simpson, who unwillingly handed the money over to Charming, conscripts an aging and inept outlaw, "Cactus Jack" Slade, to rob the duo.

Jack's attempt to enlist the assistance of Nervous Elk, the chief of a local American Indian tribe, also fails.

Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film one star, as did Walter J. Addiego of the San Francisco Examiner; Siskel described the film as "a direct ripoff of Tex Avery's marvelous Road Runner cartoons",[4][a] while Addiego wrote that it contained "the sorriest collection of jokes in recent memory […] put together by a group who probably wouldn't make the grade in the Mel Brooks school of infantile humor.

Robert G. Kane, who worked for several years as a writer for Dean Martin's Celebrity Roast, wrote the slim screenplay, which is full of such innuendoes.

Needless to say, the stunts, coordinated by Gary Combs, are pretty good, but the characters are like cartoons and the broad, burlesque humor is too simple to spoof.