Barquero

Barquero

1970 · 105 min · EN · R · 6.3 (40 votes)
Dir. Gordon Douglas · Starring Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, Forrest Tucker, Kerwin Mathews, Mariette Hartley, Marie Gomez · Music Dominic Frontiere

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Western

Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only by means of a ferry barge. The barge operator, Travis, refuses to be bullied into providing transport for the gang and escapes across river with most of the local populace--leaving Remy and his gang behind, desperately seeking a way across. A river-wide stand-off begins between the gang and the townspeople, both groups of which have left people on the wrong side of the river.

VIBE

A sun-baked, sweat-drenched Western where desperation breeds brutality. The arid landscape mirrors the characters' hardened souls as a tense standoff escalates into a primal fight for survival. It's a grim, unforgiving battle of wills.

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