Watch: The Spikes Gang 1974 123movies, Full Movie Online – In the Old West, impressionable teenagers Will, Les, and Tod find an injured bank robber who asks for their help. At first, the boys are scared and reluctant to help, afraid of getting into trouble with the law and their parents. Moved by the wounded man’s pleas, they finally agree to hide him in Will’s barn and clean his wounds. Over the next few days, they bring food, drink, and clean clothes to the outlaw, whose name is Harry Spikes. When the sheriff and his posse come by and ask questions, Will hides the fact the robber is concealed in his family’s barn. After he sufficiently recovers, Harry Spikes thanks the boys for their help and vows to help them in return if they ever need his aid. He takes Will’s horse and leaves the county, heading for the Mexican border. Later, Will’s parents discover their son’s little mischievous secret and administer Will a severe beating to teach him to never lie. Fed up with his father’s frequent physical punishments, Will runs away from home. He goes by Les and Tod’s homes to bid them farewell. In a powerful thirst for adventure, Les and Tod also decide to leave home. The three teenagers ride on and vow to have fun without any parental restriction. However, after a few days without food or money, the boys decide to rob a bank. The bank robbery goes wrong and the boys are on the run toward the Mexican border. In Mexico they do menial jobs to sustain themselves, but trouble is never far away and they end up in a Mexican jail for breaking into a pawnshop. Languishing in jail, the boys lose hope, but Harry Spikes happens to be passing through town and he finds them and bails them out of jail. In the end, he offers them the chance to work with him. The boys agree to form a bank-robbing gang with Spikes as their leader..
Plot: After escaping home, three young friends form a dynamic alliance of untamed youth. They meet an old man named Spikes with the experience only a master gunfighter can offer. The gang of men go on a crime spree and are converted to outlaws with a price on their heads.
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Unusually grim tragic-comic western
From a time when the western was trying to appeal to a younger audience by making movies that featured boy protagonists rather than men, (“The Culpepper Cattle Company”, “The Cowboys” and here, “The Spikes Gang”). This time the boys are Gary Grimes, who wisely gave up acting, Charlie Martin Smith and someone called Ron Howard who appeared in a popular tv series and I believe went into directing.They’re runaways from home who prove to be pretty useless at everything they turn their hand to until outlaw Lee Marvin takes them under his wing, at which point they become pretty good at killing. It’s a typically amoral tale where even killing is played largely for laughs, at least at the beginning before it turns tragic along the lines of “Bonnie and Clyde”, though this is never in that class and while it may not be the best thing Richard Fleischer, or for that matter Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr, ever did it is still an unusally grim tale which might account for why it’s now almost totally forgotten when others of its ilk are more fondly remembered.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Drama, Western
Director Richard Fleischer
Writer Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr., Giles Tippette
Actors Lee Marvin, Gary Grimes, Ron Howard
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color), Fotofilm S.A., Madrid, Spain (negative processing) (as Fotofilm – Espana)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm