Powderkeg

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Play Time: 93 mins
Action, Adventure, Western
Powderkeg

Overview:
A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train and holds the passengers as hostages unless his brother is released. Now both the Americans and Mexicans are baffled as to what to do. One of the passengers — who wrote the letter for their captor — has a suggestion: call mercenaries Hank Brackett and Johnny Reech. They do, and as expected they do come up with a plan, but the president of the railroad is not sure if it will work.

Status: Released (1971-04-16)
Screen:Douglas Heyes
Productions: Filmways Television
Production Countries: United States of America
Spoken Languages: English
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Wuchak

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Unique train-oriented Western with Rod Taylor and several notables of the era RELEASED IN 1971 and written & directed by Douglas Heyes, "Powderkeg" chronicles events in 1914 when Mexican renegades led by Chucho Morales (Fernando Lamas) hijack a train for leverage to get his brothe ....

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