5/10
Macho Macho Man! I wanna be a Macho Man!
17 October 2016
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS**** Somewhat mildly interesting western with a grizzly and bearded looking David Janssen as Diego "Macho" Callahan who's life has been royally screwed up since he joined the Union Army at the urging of enlistment agent Duffy, Lee J. Cobb. It was Duffy who promised Callahan it would pay for his collage education-Macho wants to be a CPA-when he fulfills his obligation to stay in it until the Civil War is finally over. Callahan was instead caught by the rebel forces where he finally ended up breaking out of the confederate POW camp in Texas that he's a prisoner in. While on the lamb Callahan gets involved in a shoot-out with one armed confederate officer Maj. David Mountford, David Carradine, over a cheap bottle of .champagne thus killing him. It's now the late David's wife Alexandra, Jean Seaburg, who's determined to get her husband's killer whacked with a $1,000.00 bonus to anyone who can finish Callahan off. This as were soon to find out isn't as easy as it looks.

Callahan for his part want's nothing of the trouble that he gets himself into in the movie but it follows him wherever he goes and keeps sticking him in his behind. It's finally at a Texas town saloon that Calallhan runs into Alexandera who incites the drunken patrons lead by hot blooded Yancy, Bo Hopkins, to work him over only for Callahan to escape during the carnage and take off into the wild with his Mexican friend Juan, Pedro Armendanz Jr. It's there where Callahan ends up saving Alexander's-who got herself lost- life from a wild and ferocious mama bear who's cub the kind loving and feeling Macho Callahan adopted as his pet. The thanks the Callahan gets for saving Alexabndra from being a meal for the 400 pound she bear is her attempting to murder him where in return Callahan ends up busting her jaw and cracking her skull and then before he's finished raping her.

****SPOILERS**** Alexandra who at first wanted nothing but to kill Callahan, for him killing her husband David, falls madly in love with him which creates a problem for her boyfriend back in town the bar owner Harry Wheeler, James Booth,who has rustled up a 15 man posse or lynch mob to track Callahan down and, after giving him a fair trial, hang him. This despite Alexandra who started the ball rolling by inciting the mob on him now ends up changing her mind about doing Callahan in! Trapped and surrounded Callahan sees the writing on the wall and faces the fate that's waiting for him knowing full well that death can't be any worse then what life or the movie he's staring in has in store for him!
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