By now the rape-revenge pulp movie is a staple, but in 1971, when Burt Kennedy’s Hannie Caulder leapt upon the anti-western bandwagon, they were brand-new. It was still five years before Lipstick (1976) and six until I Spit on Your Grave (1977) –incidentally two of the most reviled movies of that decade (and bombs to boot) — and Charles Bronson’s Death Wish (1974) was still a few years away, which in any case gave the gun to Bronson, not the woman in question. Did it all start with Burt Kennedy’s modest, Spain-shot paella western?
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New On DVD: Is Hannie Caulder the Original Rape-Revenge Pulp Flick?
