Macho Callahan

Macho Callahan is a 1970 Mexican-American Western film directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and starring David Janssen, Jean Seberg, Lee J. Cobb and James Booth.[1] The screenplay concerns a Union soldier who is imprisoned in Andersonville Prison during the American Civil War. He manages to escape, but is pursued by a gang of bounty hunters.

Macho Callahan
Directed byBernard L. Kowalski
(as Bernard Kowalski)
Produced byBernard L. Kowalski
(as Bernard Kowalski)
Martin C. Schute
Screenplay byCliff Gould
(as Clifford Newton Gould)
Story byRichard Carr
StarringDavid Janssen
Jean Seberg
Lee J. Cobb
James Booth
Music byPatrick Williams
CinematographyGerry Fisher
Edited byFrank Mazzola
Jerry Taylor
Fabien D. Tordjmann
(as Fabien Tordiman)
Production
company
Felicidad Productions
Distributed byEmbassy Pictures
Release date
  • August 17, 1970 (1970-08-17)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryMexico
United States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Placed behind bars during the war, Diego Callahan, also known as "Macho," travels to Texas looking for the man responsible for his imprisonment.

He quarrels with a one-armed Confederate Army colonel, David Mountford, over a bottle of champagne and kills him in front of his wife, Alexandra. Vowing vengeance, she immediately puts a $1,000 bounty on Callahan's head. She entices Duffy, to help her seek out Callahan, who wears the yellow boots that Callahan remembers him by.

Traveling with Alexandra through Confederate Texas, Duffy locates Callahan and challenges him to a game of horseshoes for money, but when Alexandra seeks Duffy, she finds that Callahan has hanged him.

Alexandra goes to work at a casino run by Harry Wheeler, writing letters for illiterate cowboys. Wheeler agrees to hire a team of bounty hunters and give chase. Alexandra spots Callahan at the casino, and befriends a young cowboy, Yancy. She convinces him that her honor has been insulted. Yancy goes over to where Callahan is playing poker and a melee breaks out. He escapes in the confusion but she pursues Callahan on her own and meets up with him, and the two travel with Callahan's partner.

Later, in Callahan's cabin, Alexandra tries to kill him, but Callahan overpowers her and savagely beats her before raping her. Despite the savage beating leaving scars on her face, Alexandra decides to stay at the cabin. After nearly being killed by a mother bear protecting her cub, she is saved by Callahan, who shoots the adult bear. He saves the cub because it won't survive on its own. She falls in love with Callahan.

Now in love with the man who has killed her husband, she travels with Callahan and his partner, but Wheeler's posse is in pursuit. Wheeler's men are determined to collect that reward, and Callahan finds that he can't kill them all.

Cast

See also

References
  1. "Macho Callahan (1970)\website=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk". Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
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