The Raiders (1963)

Directed by

Herschel Daugherty

Genre

Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 15m

Rated

NR

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A pilot episode for a TV series that did not sell was expanded into a movie. It follows a group of settlers or soldiers in the Old West who face conflict with outlaws or Native Americans.

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What happens

The Raiders is a 1963 American Western film directed by Herschel Daugherty and written by Gene L. Coon. The film stars Brian Keith, Robert Culp, Judi Meredith, Jim McMullan, Alfred Ryder and Simon Oakland. The film's working title was "The Plainsman," and it was apparently intended as a spin-off of that 1936 classic. The film was produced as a one-hour pilot by Universal's television arm, Revue Studios. When it failed to sell, an additional 25 minutes were shot and it was given a modest second-feature release in December 1963 by Universal Pictures. Although it was filmed in the TV aspect ratio of 1.37:1, theatres ran it in the then-standard flat ratio of 1.85:1, causing some cropping of the image, including the opening credits. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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