The Spikes Gang

PG

1974

1 hr. 36 min.

Western

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Will (Gary Grimes), Les (Ron Howard) and Tod (Charlie Martin Smith), teenage farm boys living near the Mexican border, stumble upon Harry Spikes (Lee Marvin), a local bandit near death in the middle of nowhere. After helping bring the aging man back to health, the trio decide to escape their humdrum lives by becoming outlaws themselves. Failing at their first attempt to rob a bank, the boys convince the gruff Spikes to teach them the ways of the desperado.

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Leander S

The movie is not that bad at all. The acting of the four main characters is quite convincing to me, maybe a little clumsy sometimes, but all in all ok. The movie also manages to reproduce the fate of the unlucky, naive and desperate kids in me. At least it was much more convincing to me than some of those Billy the Kid movies which completely fail to reproduce the feelings of despair these people must have had.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/22/24

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Audience Member

Good movie here thank you’ll like it James Welch, Henderson, Arkansas September 16, 2023

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

09/17/23

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Martin B

Agree completely with the rating. All the acting is great but the plot is just an incredible bummer. Why??

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/10/22

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Matthew D

Action, humor, tragedy and even social-commentary, this movie has it all.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/04/21

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Audience Member

Not that interesting. Basic, standard storyline with no unexpected twists. Kind of just blah and then they all die tragically, pointlessly in the end. No redeaming quality and simply depressing. Much better westerns out there ans much better Lee Marven movies

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Sandra S

A tale of three boys who went from living at home with a physical and emotional abuser of a father to following a hard core old bank robber. He exposes them to a life very different from their own. I would imagine that this lifestyle was part of many young mens lives back then.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

09/17/19

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Richard Fleischer

Director

Lee Marvin

Harry Spikes

Gary Grimes

Will

Ron Howard

Les

Charles Martin Smith

Tod

Arthur Hunnicutt

Kid White

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Dick Lochte

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If you're a producer who gives [director Richard] Fleischer a turkey of a script, like The Last Run or The Don is Dead or The Spikes Gang, you should expect no miracles.

Dec 13, 2019

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Dennis Schwartz

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Marvin excels as the world-weary gunman, who realizes his time is almost up.

Rated: B-

Jan 10, 2015

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Synopsis

Will (Gary Grimes), Les (Ron Howard) and Tod (Charlie Martin Smith), teenage farm boys living near the Mexican border, stumble upon Harry Spikes (Lee Marvin), a local bandit near death in the middle of nowhere. After helping bring the aging man back to health, the trio decide to escape their humdrum lives by becoming outlaws themselves. Failing at their first attempt to rob a bank, the boys convince the gruff Spikes to teach them the ways of the desperado.

Director: Richard Fleischer
Screenwriter: Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.
Production Co: Mirisch Corporation
Rating: PG
Genre: Western
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 3, 2017

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