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Most of the comedy stays at this slapdash level. Raquel Welch, looking as ever like a performer hired to entertain visiting conventioneers, plays a policewoman assigned to bag a rapist who is prowling the parks. There is a dizzying number of other subplots, most of which revolve clumsily around the 87th's efforts to bring to justice a sinister saboteur (Yul Brynner) who threatens to extinguish the mayor...
Before too long-say around the fourth or fifth minute of running time -Raquel Welch is gang-raped by three desperadoes and left to die in her flaming hacienda. Things got pretty rough back there in the Old West...
...Consequently, her thrashings and grimacings while being assaulted assume an air of piquant comedy. Nothing will do after being so shamed but for Miss Welch to ride out for revenge. This presents a problem since the scoundrels have swiped the horses as well as murdered her husband. The resourceful Raquel, of course, gets both a new mount and a new man in the person of a bounty hunter named Thomas Luther Price (Robert Gulp). Price takes her to Mexico and teaches her how to shoot. Admirably, he seldom seems distracted by her wardrobe, a pair of skintight leather pants...
Miss Welch seems obsessed with becoming Mae West. Perhaps it's just that she never recovered from Myra Breckinridge, but Raquel tosses out lines like "There aren't any hard women, only soft men" that are the sort that Miss West used to dispense. She, however, had a shrewd sense of self-parody. Raquel doesn't get the joke...
...Karl Maiden, Shelly Manne, Fredric March, Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Vera Miles, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Tom Poston, Janice Rule, Barbara Rush, Robert Ryan, Eva Marie Saint, Artie Shaw, Tom Smothers, Sonny & Cher, Rod Steiger, Mario Thomas, Lily Tomlin, Robert Vaughn, Jon Voight, Eli Wallach, Ruth Warrick, Dennis Weaver, Raquel Welch, Gene Wilder...