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The Spikes Gang ()

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Three farm boys in the Old West help a wounded bank robber who teaches them the trade.
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Harry Spikes
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Will
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Les
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Tod (as Charlie Martin Smith)
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Kid White
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Basset (as Noah Beery)
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Abel Young
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Cowboy
Elliott Sullivan ...
Billy
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Sheriff (creditOnly)
Ralph Brown ...
Posse Leader
Bill Curran ...
Gillis
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Doctor
David Thomson ...
Sheriff of Carrizo Springs
Bert Conway ...
Bank Teller
Adolfo Thous ...
Pawnbroker
Allen Russell ...
Morton (as Allen E. Russell)
Frances O'Flynn ...
Mrs. Young
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Rafael Albaicín ...
Shopkeeper (uncredited)
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Mexican Man (uncredited)
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Directed by

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Richard Fleischer

Written by

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Irving Ravetch ... (screenplay) and
Harriet Frank Jr. ... (screenplay)
 
Giles Tippette ... (novel "The Bank Robber")

Produced by

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Richard Fleischer ... producer
Walter Mirisch ... producer
Irving Ravetch ... associate producer

Music by

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Fred Karlin

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Brian West ... director of photography

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Frank J. Urioste
Ralph E. Winters

Art Direction by

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Julio Molina

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Antonio Mateos

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Mariano García Rey ... makeup artist (as Mariano Garcia Rey)

Production Management

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Tom Pevsner ... production supervisor
José María Rodríguez ... production manager (as José María Rodriguez)
Francisco Ruiz ... unit manager

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Antonio Tarruella ... first assistant director (as Tony Tarruella)

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Tom Jung ... poster designer (uncredited)

Sound Department

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George Stephenson ... sound
Frank E. Warner ... sound editor (as Frank Warner)
Jack R. Woltz ... sound re-recordist

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Antonio Parra ... special effects

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Carlos Esteban Adrada ... grip
Ricardo Arenas ... gaffer (as Ricardo Arenas Ariño)
Ginger Gemmel ... camera operator (as Neil Gemmell)

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Agustín Jiménez ... wardrobe (as Agustin Jimenez)

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George Brand ... music editor

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Isabel Mulá ... script supervisor (as Isabel Mula)
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Plot Summary

In the Old West, impressionable teenage farm boys 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 return the favor if they ever need his assistance. He takes Will's horse and leaves the county, heading for the Mexican border. Later, Will's parents discover their son's secret mischievous deed and administer a severe beating to teach him to never lie again. Fed up with his father's frequent physical abuse, Will runs away from home. He goes by Les and Tod's homes to bid them farewell. Yearning for adventure in their own lives, Les and Tod also decide to leave home. The three teenagers ride away and vow to have fun free of parental restrictions and interference. 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 labor 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 forlorn 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 opportunity to work with him. The boys agree to form a bank-robbing gang with Spikes as their leader. Written by nufs68 / edited by Hans Delbruck

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Also Known As
  • Harry Spikes (United Kingdom)
  • Du sang dans la poussière (France)
  • Tres forajidos y un pistolero (Spain)
  • Spikes gäng (Sweden)
  • Rövargänget (Finland, Swedish title)
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Trivia Robert Beatty, despite being credited as The Sheriff, is nowhere to be seen. See more »
Goofs At the beginning, the boys gather to bring Spikes some food under a bright blue NIGHT-time sky. But his scene was obviously filmed during the daytime, using a filter to darken the images. These scenes were only slightly darker than the preceding scenes when the posse came through looking for Spikes. This slightly darker scene, coupled with the sound of crickets, was evidently supposed to give the illusion that it was nighttime, despite the brilliant blue sky!. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin (2000). See more »
Quotes Will Young: We sure didn't mean nothing like this to come of it. We didn't desire to commit murder. It just kinda ran away from us.
Harry Spikes: Well, we all started out as somethin' else, way back.
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