Gone With The West (1974)
A gang of outlaws attacks the remote ranch of a young couple, killing their child, raping and killing the wife, and beating up the rancher. The rancher winds up in prison, and resolves to find and kill all the outlaws once he's released from prison.
It R Funny
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
(Was filmed in 1969 Major cast members were housed at Del Webb's Mint)
Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park - 10700 W. Escondido Canyon Rd., Agua Dulce, California, USA
(title sequence)
Two versions of this film exist. One is titled "Gone with the West", and appears to have been filmed in the mid-'70s, while the second is titled "Little Moon and Jud McGraw", which appears to be a re-edited version of "Gone with the West", with some additional scenes, and a name change for the main character from "Jebediah Kelsey" to "Jud McGraw". The second version may have been released in the late 1970s.
Filmed in 1969 but not released until 1974.
Little Moon's name is not mentioned by anyone during the film.
Clips of this can be seen in Messiah of Evil (1974) during the cinema scene at 0.57.10. Both movies were distributed by International Cine Film Corporation as well as produced by V/M Productions.
Many promo shots/movie posters for this movie use James Caan in costume as "Mississippi" from El Dorado, complete with his distinctive hat and sawn-off double barrel shotgun.
Continuity
Jud leaves gaol with just trousers and shirt. In his next scene he is wearing a vest and hat as well.
When Little Moon kills the hare/ rabbit with the sling, the shots of the hare/ rabbit show it to be in a completely different environment - more grass, less rocks. Environment (or terrain) is not a constant. "Over there" and "over here" can be distinctly different, and, in this case, not very different.
In the early scene in the bar, where all the men and women come charging out of the hall and down the stairs, the railing above the stairs falls over. In the next shot it is standing again. A couple of shots later it is down again. That railing was up and down so often, it may have been on hinges. Until Jeb and Moon start catapulting boulders on the saloon, then it stayed up.
Kid Dandy intimidates Artie by holding a burning match in front of his face. The match burns about halfway down, but when Kid Dandy starts moving the match down Artie's chest only the head has burned.
Revealing mistakes
When Kid Dandy is demonstrating his gun prowess to Artie and the others, he is standing on the stairs and his last shot is fired high across the room. However it smashes the bottle held by a man down at floor level.
Anachronisms
When Mimmo assaults Billlie and strips her, she is wearing modern underpants.
Probably impossible to resist doing, but ~00:39:00, Jebediah's Tarzan Yell originated with Johnny Weissmuller in 1932.
Kelsey proceeds to shoot the cameraman, even though the film takes place in 19th century, while color cinematography would be introduced almost half century later. Doesn't have to be color cinematography if it can later be colorized.
