An Eye for an Eye (1966)

★ 7.4 1h 32m IMDb

A former bounty hunter teams up with a younger one, to track down and kill the wanted gang leader who murdered his wife and little boy.

An Eye for an Eye

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Robert Lansing
Robert Lansing as Bill Talion Died 1994 · San Diego, California, USA Robert Lansing (June 5, 1928 - October 23, 1994) was an American stage, film and television actor. Born in San Diego, California as Robert Howell Brown, he reportedly took his acting surname from the...
Patrick Wayne
Patrick Wayne as Benny Wallace Age 86 · Los Angeles, California, USA ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Patrick John Morrison, better known by his stage name Patrick Wayne (born July 15, 1939), is an American actor, the second son of movie star John Wayne and h...
Slim Pickens
Slim Pickens as Ike Slant Died 1983 · Kingsburg, California, USA Louis Burton Lindley Jr. (June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983), known professionally as Slim Pickens, was an American actor and rodeo performer. Starting off in the rodeo, Pickens transitioned to acting...
Gloria Talbott
Gloria Talbott as Bri Quince Died 2000 · Glendale, California, USA Gloria Talbott (February 7, 1931 – September 19, 2000) was an American film and television actress..
Strother Martin
Strother Martin as Trumbull Died 1980 · Kokomo, Indiana, USA Strother Martin (March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980) was an American actor in numerous films and television programs. Martin is perhaps best known as the prison "captain" in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke,...
Paul Fix
Paul Fix as Brian Quince Died 1983 · Dobbs Ferry, New York, USA Paul Fix (March 13, 1901, Dobbs Ferry, New York – October 14, 1983, Los Angeles, California) was an American film and television character actor, best known for his work in westerns. Fix appeared in m...

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Wuchak 5/10 Mar 21, 2026
**_Vengeance Western in the shadow of the awesome Sierra Nevadas_**

Robert Lansing and Patrick Wayne star as bounty hunters seeking their wicked prey (Slim Pickens). If there’s any doubt as to how evil the latter is, the opening scene removes it.

Steely-eyed Lansing is surprisingly good as the laconic protagonist. You might remember him as Gary Seven in the Star Trek episode “Assignment: Earth,” which he did shortly after this movie. He went on to costar in “Empire of the Ants” ten years later wherein his character’s range was limited to grim and grimmer. Meanwhile Patrick Wayne is fine in the role of the sidekick; I don’t get where critics say he was miscast or that his acting was lousy.

The first half is pretty much as good as any 60s’ Western you could name, featuring brutal action, quality drama and spectacular locations, but the flick drops the ball in the second half with a contrived dilemma and the unlikely (not to mention tedious) way it plays out. Then Lansing’s character does something at the end that is inorganic to the proceedings and so the movie leaves you with a bad taste.

Despite my criticisms, if you like mid/late 60s’ Westerns like “Nevada Smith” and “Will Penny,” as well as traditional ones like “Shane,” this is cut from the same cloth. It’s just the weakest of ’em for the reasons cited. But at least it tried something different, I suppose. Plus it’s nice to see Gloria Talbott, whom some might remember from “I Married a Monster from Outer Space” eight years prior. She called it a day in acting after this.

It runs 1h 32m and was shot in Jan-Feb 1966 at Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, which is a 3½ drive north of Los Angeles in the Sierras, as well as Olancha Dunes, which is a 35-minute drive south of there.

GRADE: C+

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