𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙤𝙣, 𝙂𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝘽𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙮
A young cowboy hooks up with a legendary outlaw, and before long both are on the run from the law. Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger from his father-in-law Don Braulio, a wealthy Mexican rancher. Don Braulio wants Barbarosa dead for marrying his daughter against the father's will. Barbarosa reluctantly takes the clumsy Karl on as a partner, as both of them look to survive the forces lining up against them.
Stars Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, Isela Vega & many other fine actors.
Movie Trivia
During production two technicians and a woman were killed in an after-hours vehicle accident.
The production camp was in a little known western Texan backwater township of Latijas which had a population of around only twelve people. The Texas town was a former desert trading post stop and was General "Black Jack" Pershing's headquarters during military campaign fighting against the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. The production shoot in Latijas went for four weeks. That's Lajitas, TX.
This independently financed movie was picked up by Universal Pictures when they acquired Lord Lew Grade's ITC/Associated Film Distributors (AFD) which got sold when they went bust after the box-office failure of Raise the Titanic (1980). Reportedly, the pictured got pulled from theaters in some territories when AFD was sold. The film was one of two westerns that Universal inherited from ITC/AFD, the other was The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981). Both flopped at the box-office.
Willie Nelson had read only two pages of the film's screenplay when he decided he wanted to do the movie. Nelson exclaimed: "I want to be this guy" [Barbarosa].
Actor Gary Busey was not only a co-lead but also acted as an uncredited producer.
This was country-and-western singer Willie Nelson's first ever Western movie.
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