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A Time for Killing

"Two violent men... and a violated woman!"

1967-08-01 Western 1hr 28m

During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the war is over. Keeping the message a secret, the captain has his men go on and they soon find themselves in a battle with the Union search party who also is unaware of the war's end.

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Storyline

During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the war is over. Keeping the message a secret, the captain has his men go on and they soon find themselves in a battle with the Union search party who also is unaware of the war's end.

  • Released
    1967-08-01
  • Revenue
    n/a
  • Budget
    $2,000,000
  • Runtime
    1hr 28m
  • Genre
    Western, War
  • Status
    Released
  • Language
    English
  • imdb-logo
    0
  • Production
    Columbia Pictures

Crew

Phil Karlson
Director
Shirley Wolford
Novel
Harry Joe Brown
Producer
Keywords:
rape escape hostage prosecution beating fortress

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Cast

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Tom Wolcott
George Hamilton

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Dorrit Bentley
Inger Stevens

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Emily Biddle
Paul Petersen

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Todd Armstrong

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Max Baer Jr.

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Kenneth Tobey

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Timothy Carey

Timothy Carey
Billy Cat
Harry Dean Stanton

Harry Dean Stanton
Sgt. Dan Way
Richard X. Slattery

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Cpl. Paddy Darling
Harrison Ford

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Lt. Shaffer
Kay E. Kuter

Kay E. Kuter
Owelson
Dick Miller

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Emile Meyer

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Col. Harries
Marshall Reed

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Stedner
Duke Hobbie

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James Davidson

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Charlie Briggs

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Craig Curtis

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A Review by John Chard 4

Written by John Chard on 2019-01-27

Protracted mess that's nearly saved by the high action quota. Confederate POWs escape a Union camp and make for the Mexico border chased ... read more

Protracted mess that's nearly saved by the high action quota. Confederate POWs escape a Union camp and make for the Mexico border chased by Union troops. This in spite of the fact that the war has just been declared over... Directed by Phil Karlson with Roger Corman on hand for uncredited duties, this stands up as an odd, interesting, but messy Western. The production problems involved do show, for we get a pic that more or less consists of similar scenes strung together as a whole. The pursued can be found squabbling and bickering, in fighting and macho posturing, while the pursuers do the same. No opportunity is wasted for some violence on tap, lots of gunplay, bloodletting and noise, while sexual aggression rears its ugly head. Sadly it just comes off as trying to keep the pic interesting, to stop the viewers from falling asleep as the narrative fails to offer anything of substance. Oh it's trying, the futility of war and its corruption of the soul are bubbling away, but it never bears out, buried under the urgency for an action scene and awful over acting (Max Baer Junior is appalling). In its favour is the cast list, which contains Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, Inger Stevens, Timothy Carey, Kenneth Tobey, Harry Stanton, Harrison "Indiana Jones" Ford and Todd "Jason Of The Argonauts" Armstrong - amongst others. It's a strange roll call befitting the strangeness of the piece, compounded by Mundell Lowe's awfully intrusive musical score - on the evidence of this it's not hard to understand why he had such a short and mundane career as a composer. The Utah and Arizona locations however are a treat, so props to Kenneth Peach, his work deserves a better picture. A Time for Killing (AKA: The Long Ride Home), more a curio piece than a genre pic to avidly seek out. 4/10

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A Review by Geronimo1967 5

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2024-01-28

After what can only be described as one of the most ludicrous firing squad scenarios I've ever seen, the irritated confederate prisoners und... read more

After what can only be described as one of the most ludicrous firing squad scenarios I've ever seen, the irritated confederate prisoners under the command of "Bentley" (George Hamilton) decide that they are going to avenge themselves on their blue-shirted counterparts and so they duly kill some guards, trash the fort with the cannon and skedaddle. "Maj. Walcott" (Glenn Ford) is duly dispatched to apprehend them and what ensues now is quite possibly the worst main-stream western I have ever seen. Ford just doesn't look like he cared and no amount of facial hair is going to lend enough gravitas to the perpetually underwhelming Hamilton as the story heads down the same wagon trail as quite literally thousands of it's civil war cinematic forebears. The production is almost as bad as the script, which is back of an envelope stuff - and the contribution from Inger Stevens as the kidnapped, wronged and vengeful "Emily" (the fiancée of "Walcott") is just bizarre. Keep an eye out for a young-ish Harrison Ford if you can be bothered sitting through this, and you may also spot Todd Armstrong - having fallen quite a way since "Jason and the Argonauts" (1963) but it's a long and unfulfilling old slog riddled with banal dialogue to an ending that I could have done with about seventy minutes earlier.

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A Review by John Chard

Protracted mess that's nearly saved by the high action quota. Confederate POWs escape a Union camp and make for the Mexico border chased by Union troops. This in spite of the fact that the war has just been declared over... Directed b...

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A Review by John Chard 4

Written by John Chard on 2019-01-27

Protracted mess that's nearly saved by the high action quota. Confederate POWs escape a Union camp and make for the Mexico border chased by Union troops. This in spite of the fact that the war has ...

read more
reviewer avatar

A Review by Geronimo1967 5

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2024-01-28

After what can only be described as one of the most ludicrous firing squad scenarios I've ever seen, the irritated confederate prisoners under the command of "Bentley" (George Hamilton) decide that th...

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