The Jackals

{{Short description|1967 film by Robert D. Webb}}

{{Other uses|The Jackal (disambiguation){{!}}Jackal (disambiguation)}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Jackals

| image = Jackalsdvdcover.jpg

| caption =

| director = Robert D. Webb

| producer = Robert D. Webb

| writer = W.R. Burnett
Harold Medford

| starring = Vincent Price
Diana Ivarson
Robert Gunner

| music = Bob Adams

| cinematography = David Millin

| editing = Peter Grossett

| studio = Killarney Film Studios

| distributor = 20th Century-Fox

| released = {{Film date|1967|11|10}}

| runtime = 96 minutes

| country = South Africa

| language = English

| budget =

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The Jackals is a 1967 DeLuxe Color Western film released by 20th Century-Fox and filmed at Killarney Film Studios in South Africa. A remake of 1948's Yellow Sky, it stars Vincent Price as a South African prospector named Oupa (grandpa) Decker and contract Fox star Robert Gunner.{{cite web |first= Charles |last=Tatum |date=October 19, 2007 |title=Jackals, The |work=efilmcritic.com |url=http://www.efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=16798&reviewer=325 |accessdate=2014-11-20}} The film was the last directed by Robert D. Webb.

Plot

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Gold miner and his granddaughter living in South Africa are besieged by a group of bank robbers, led by 'Stretch' Hawkins for the prospectors' gold.

Cast

  • Vincent Price as Oupa Decker, the Prospector
  • Diana Ivarson as Wilhemina Adelaide 'Willie' Decker
  • Robert Gunner as Roger 'Stretch' Hawkins
  • Bob Courtney as Dandy
  • Patrick Mynhardt as Gotz
  • Bill Brewer as Stoffel
  • John Whiteley as Marico

See also

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