Kid Vengeance (1977)

Director:

Joseph Manduke

Writers:

Ken Globus (writer)
Bud Robbins (writer)

Release Date:

August 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

He watched them massacre his father... Shame his mother... Take his sister. They made him...

Plot:

A prospector whose gold was stolen by an outlaw teams up with a kid whose parents were murdered and sister kidnapped by the same outlaw. |

Plot Keywords:

Gold | Kidnapping | Murder | Independent Film

Cast

Lee Van Cleef	...	McClain
Jim Brown	...	Isaac
Leif Garrett	...	Tom Thurston
Glynnis O'Connor	...	Lisa Thurston
John Marley	...	Jesus
David Loden	...	Mathew Thurston
Matt Clark	...	Grover
Dalia Penn	...	Beth Thurston
Timothy Scott	...	Ned
Richard Vanstone	...	Dewey
Joseph Shiloach	...	Lupe
David Menachem	...	Ricardo
Yakar Semach	...	Sheriff
Heinz Bernard	...	George
Margalit Ankory	...	Carmelita

Also Known As:

Take Another Hard Ride (USA) (reissue title)
Uomo di Santa Cruz, L' (Italy)
Vengeance (USA)

Runtime:

Brazil:94 min | USA:94 min

Country:

Italy | Israel | USA

Language:

English | Hebrew

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Israel

Company:

Golan Productions

Lee Van Cleef Versus... Leif Garrett?????

KID VENGEANCE (2 outta 5 stars) Cheaply-made and poorly-directed piece of western fluff starring Lee Van Cleef as one of the most vile villains he's ever played. This was during his later years when he was getting a bit long in the tooth to believably play those nasty, tough guy parts... but he is still the most interesting thing in this movie. He leads a bunch of bandits who rape and kill the mom and dad of young Leif Garrett and then kidnap his sister. Leif goes after them with "vengeance" on his mind. He begins to pick off the bandits one by one, using some pretty unconventional means (bow and arrow, rocks, scorpions, the old snake-in-the-saddlebag trick). He eventually teams up with a gold prospector (Jim Brown) whose life savings have been stolen by these men as well. The film starts off looking like a bad TV-movie... but once the raping and killing starts it becomes obvious that this was no "Movie Of The Week". You might be interested enough to sit through it once but this is no classic by any means.