Hannie Caulder is a 1971 British Western film directed by Burt Kennedy and starring Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, and Ernest Borgnine.
Kennedy called it a film "which a lot of people hate and a lot of people love. We made it for a million dollars in forty days – and it was pretty good."
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Plot
Hannie Caulder is a frontier wife, living with her husband at a horse station between towns in the American West. After a disastrous failed bank robbery raid, the inept Clemens gang, three brothers, arrive at the horse station. After acting friendly, they murder Caulder's husband, gang-rape her, burn down the family house, and leave her for dead in the burning house. The brothers then go on a crime spree, while Caulder recruits bounty hunter Thomas Luther Price to help her get revenge by training her to be a gunfighter. The pair come across a fellow bounty hunter known as The Preacher. After leaving him they travel to Mexico to have gunsmith Bailey build her a specialized revolver, to be a fast draw specialist. In the meantime, the two grow closer. When bandidos surround the Bailey house, a gun battle erupts, but Hannie is unable to kill a man face-to-face. Price recommends she give up her quest for revenge, but she refuses, telling him to get out and that she was only using him and does not need him anymore. Price leaves, telling Hannie she is a bad liar.
