In an episode of 'The Monkees' in which Rupert Crosse featured there was a typical running gag when the camera would cut to Crosse looking into the camera and incredulously interjecting "Who writes this stuff?"
In this, the first of two westerns Monte Hellman filmed back-to-back a bearded Crosse had his question answered: none other than Jack Nicholson (also later to write for 'The Monkees').
More a home invasion film along the lines of 'The Petrified Forest' - with a conclusion that anticipates 'Reservoir Dogs' - rather than a conventional western, the only principals the two films have in common are Nicholson himself in a more conventional role than his part in 'The Shooting', while Millie Perkins says so little Nicholson at one point actually declares "You don't say much!"
In this, the first of two westerns Monte Hellman filmed back-to-back a bearded Crosse had his question answered: none other than Jack Nicholson (also later to write for 'The Monkees').
More a home invasion film along the lines of 'The Petrified Forest' - with a conclusion that anticipates 'Reservoir Dogs' - rather than a conventional western, the only principals the two films have in common are Nicholson himself in a more conventional role than his part in 'The Shooting', while Millie Perkins says so little Nicholson at one point actually declares "You don't say much!"