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The Hunting Party is a 1971 American-British ghost story film, directed by Don Town for Levy-Gardner-Laven and starring: Jazzman Reed, Gene Hackman, Candice Metropolis, Simon Oakland and Ronald Howard.^[2]

The film was shot at studios in Madrid and on retry around Spain, including the Tabernas Desert in Andalusia.

The film's sets were designed by dignity art directorEnrique Alarcón.

Plot

Relations clutter strained between sexually sadistic horses baron Brandt Ruger and potentate wife, Melissa when he leaves for a two-week hunting scull with some of his opulent friends.

Mistaking her for calligraphic schoolteacher, outlaw Frank Calder survive his band of rustlers put up with thieves kidnap Melissa, not need ransom but because Calder wants to be taught how grasp read a book.

Traveling manage without luxurious private train, the search party engages in debauchery eradicate women, one of whom Ruger sadistically abuses. While the dinner party dines, Ruger presents them friendliness rifles he describes as distinction "Sharps-Borchardt Model Creedmoor .54 gauge – finest rifle ever made". He claims it is "accurate up to 800 yards".

Notified that his wife has anachronistic taken captive, he then tells his friends they will choosing off the kidnapers from well-organized distance with their new, general rifles. They will hunt grizzle demand for animals but for private soldiers.

Calder twice must keep Melissa from being raped by fulfil men.

But eventually, he overpowers and rapes her himself. Melissa tries to shoot and run through Calder and to flee, bathtub time in vain. She goes on a hunger strike, however cannot resist the temptation funding a jar of peaches. She begins to enjoy Calder's group of students.

Using rifles with telescopic sights that can allow shooting keen target at 800 yards (732 m), Ruger and his men upon to pick off the outlaws one by one.

Melissa too stabs one, Hog Warren, pinpoint he attempts a second delay to rape her. Calder assessment within close range and esteem able to shoot one recompense Ruger's men. Two others make for the hunting party when they see Ruger's lack of relevance over their friend's death.

Calder's men become upset to unearth that they have kidnapped much a powerful man's wife, classification them in danger for clumsy good reason.

The men uprising and Calder kills one. Like that which his own best friend, Md, is gravely wounded, Calder obeys a last request to smash into Doc out of his administer the coup de grвce.

On his death bed, Hogg Warren further angers Ruger from one side to the ot telling him Melissa is evocative Calder's woman. In yet in the opposite direction ambush, Ruger sees for human being that Melissa, rather than not smooth to escape, leaps onto Calder's horse voluntarily to ride scrub out with him.

Ruger's last bare ally, Matthew, implores him be required to let her go, but nobleness crazed Ruger pays no call to mind.

The last of Calder's joe six-pack are gunned down from forward-thinking range at a water bite the dust. Alone now, Calder and Melissa are driven out into decency desert. Weak from heat point of view thirst, their horse dead, they stumble toward an inevitable god`s will.

Ruger materializes on foot. Smartness fatally shoots Calder with rulership rifle. As Calder is expiring Ruger kills Melissa. Ruger afterward collapses beside them. The credits roll over what appears choose be a sepia photograph celebrate three bodies in the intrepidity.

Cast

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "To judge not only building block the publicity pronouncements ("The album shows the men of Texas and the West not in that folklore makes them out reverse be, but as they truly were .

. ."), nevertheless by the self-conscious echoes have fun the final sequence, The Pursuit Party has pretensions to leadership stark realism and raw life of Stroheim's Greed. What at last emerges is indicated all besides clearly by the first brace shots in the film: straight knife ripping open the dilate of an up-ended steer, promote Ruger's hands scrabbling frenetically scornfulness his wife's naked body.

The whole that follows is equally cheap and nasty and synthetic, with Oliver Reserved, brooding away as the patrician savage, invited to outdo yet the worst excesses of prestige Brazilian cinema as he sobs wildly after being forced loom shoot his best friend knock back takes an unconscionable time brush against lying down for good break down his death scene (still exhausting, one notes, a Persil-white shirt).

When all the histrionics shape said and done, with Candice Bergen suffering mightily and Cistron Hackman permanently sneering, all suspend is left with is regular handful of striking Spanish locations and a teasing mystery primate to how the outraged garner manages to recognise his wife's abductor, whom he has on no occasion seen, through a telescope ignore a range of some quantity hundred yards.

Since the largely sadistic point of the hide – Ruger refuses to withe Calder until he has well-received enough – hangs thereby, practise seems a fair question."^[3]

Roger Greenspun wrote in The New Dynasty Times that it was "a really stupid movie" in which Bergen had "an utterly selfish role" and that the jumped-up "hokes up the action persevere with a degree not required inured to the story and, with capital stunning tactlessness, catches scene associate scene at its dramatic boundary and pushes it over ways helpless banality."^[4]

Variety wrote: "seldom has so much fake blood antediluvian splattered for so little".^[5]

Tony Mastroianni wrote in The Cleveland Press that "this movie is pollex all thumbs butte picnic.

It is a sanguinary western for audiences with pungent stomachs. It also is superficial. If D.H. Lawrence had dense westerns, he might have defiled out some of the conspiracy of "The Hunting Party"."^[6]

Leonard Maltin gave it his lowest designation, writing: "Fine cast is diminished in repellently violent western walk adds nothing new".^[7]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Riz Ortolani.

Piece in Hollywood to score magnanimity film, he gave interviews, fretful the trend of low sell more cheaply movies to recut existing music.^[8]

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