Directed by:
Hal NeedhamCinematography:
Bobby ByrneComposer:
Bill JustisCast:
Kirk Douglas, Ann-Margret, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Paul Lynde, Jack Elam, Strother Martin, Robert Tessier, Ruth Buzzi, Foster Brooks, Mel Tillis, Ott (more)Plots(1)
He's dressed in black from boots to hat and he's twirling double iron. His name is "Cactus Jack" Slater and he's "The Villain." Kirk Douglas stars as the ne'er-do-well highwayman in this screwball gunslinger comedy co-starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Handsome Stranger and Ann-Margret as the lusty Miss Charming Jones.
Charming's father Parody has sent her on a risky overland errand, providing crooked banker Avery Simpson with the perfect chance to double-cross Parody out of a silver fortune. And when Simpson offers to buy Cactus Jack out of the Snakes End Jail if he'll do the dirty work. Cactus Jack schemes to double-cross the double-crosser. But his plans are failed when Arnold Schwarzenegger weighs in as Handsome Stranger. He owes Parody Jones his life, and the payback is pure pistol-popping laughter as the blue-eyed do-gooder does his duty: protecting the loot and the lady with a white-hatted paladin's good luck.
(official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Kirk Douglas
USA
Best movies:
Paths of Glory (1957)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Lust for Life (1956)
Ann-Margret
Sweden
Best movies:
Interstate 60 (2002)
Any Given Sunday (1999)
Who Will Love My Children? (1983) (TV movie)
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austria
Best movies:
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Terminator (1984)
Predator (1987)
Paul Lynde
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Hugo the Hippo (1975)
Charlotte's Web (1973)
Jack Elam
USA
Best movies:
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The Sacketts (1979) (TV movie)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Strother Martin
USA
Best movies:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Robert Tessier
USA
Best movies:
Steel (1979)
The Longest Yard (1974)
Another Man, Another Chance (1977)
Ruth Buzzi
USA
Best movies:
Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw (1988)
The AristoCats (1970)
The Rescuers (1977)
Foster Brooks
USA
Best movies:
The Villain (1979)
Cannonball Run II (1984)
Mel Tillis
USA
Best movies:
Every Which Way But Loose (1978)
The Cannonball Run (1981)
Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
Ott
Best movies:
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
The Villain (1979)
Dick Armstrong
Best movies:
The Winds of War (1983) (series)
They Call Me Renegade (1987)
Posse (1975)