After she is raped and her husband murdered, a woman (Raquel Welch) hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the use of a gun so she can get her revenge on the three outlaws (Ernest Borgnine and two guys) responsible.Quentin Tarantino said the film was one of his inspirations for Kill Bill. "Why I love Hannie Caulder so much is Robert Culp. He is so magnificent in that movie. I actually think there's a bit of similarity between Sonny Chiba and Uma (in Kill Bill) and Raquel Welch and Robert Culp in Hannie Caulder." You can totally see it during the training montage, which smacks of kung fu movies more than westerns.And Christopher Lee is in this? How many westerns has he done? None other that I can think of. But what do I know? It is still great seeing him here.

Ah sue me! I think it's great. Raquel Welch plays Hannie Caulder, a gorgeous cowgirl who is raped and left widowed by three scuzzy brothers played by Ernest Borgnine, Strother Martin and Jack Elam. Hell bent on revenge, Hannie hooks up with smooth bounty hunter Thomas Luther Price (Robert Culp excellent), learns how to fire weapons and pursues her quarry to the day of reckoning.That is it, it is what it is, Welch is stunningly beautiful and sexy and director Burt Kennedy wastes no opportunities to capitalise on this fact. If we are honest she's miscast, but it really doesn't matter, nor does finding Christopher Lee in the picture as a wily old gunsmith!The mix of humour with a rape revenge storyline is a little uncomfortable at times, but not insultingly so, while Kennedy has a good eye for action. Edward Scaife photographs (Panavision) pleasingly out of Almería in Spain, and Ken Thorne's musical score trundles along without intrusion.It's off-beat, even unique, and while it misses the chance to be a feminist Western of some standing, there's a real good time to be had here for those willing to buy into the daftness of it all. 7/10

Did I see a different movie than everybody else? No one has mentioned the head scratching events, like why the gang of Mexicans attacked Christopher Lee and company on the beach. Like who was the guy at the prison and why he helped Hannie? Did he live there? Let's not forget the absurdity of making a gun without any machining tools. No one mentioned how the older brother's leg wound kept changing legs. Someone mentioned less cheesecake? Less than having one of the most beautiful woman on earth wear a poncho for the whole movie. What moron's idea was that? The whole teaching her how to shoot was just awful and painful to watch. The music was terrible and wildly inappropriate. It sounded like some outtakes from Star Trek. There was no chemistry at all between Welch and Culp at all, none! I could go on and on about the three stooges being portrayed as bad asses, but you get the point.

What a terrible name. Hannie? Why not just Annie? That aside, I did enjoy this movie. It is a very basic rape/revenge story done as a Western. I don't think it was nearly as gritty as it was meant to be. When characters say things like, "You're a hard woman, Hannie Caulder," I felt like they could have done more to show how hard she had become, rather than just point it out with dialog. Also, there was a little bit of forced sentimentality, and some ill-placed comic relief that felt almost slap-sticky.This is just nitpicking however. It was very satisfying and watchable, at least for one viewing. Raquel Welch, who I probably know best from her guest appearance on Seinfeld, was very striking as the damaged frontier woman. A lot of people seem to really like the character that helps train her as a gunfighter. I found him more functional to the story than interesting. Christopher Lee had a cameo that had me asking if it was really him. And there was one unresolved plot point in that as far as I could tell, they never explained who the mystery man in black was. If you are in the mood for a lighter, easy-to-watch western, this should go down nice. Just don't expect the depth of, say, "Once Upon A Time..."