Easy to dismiss as a cut-rate version of DELIVERENCE, this movie is not without merit. A group of seemingly straight-laced weekend hunters are inexplicably fired upon by another group of hunters, resulting in tragedy. The men find paranoia and anger begin to take over and decide to confront the mysterious band. This is a fairly intriguing look at what happens to "normal" people when faced with unbelievable savagery. The cast, led by Cliff Robertson, is first-rate. Robertson, an upstanding business man, is revealed to be a power-mad war monger just aching to shoot somebody. Ernest Borgnine is his best friend, a pacifist trying to talk Robertson off a no-win ledge. There's a truly outré cameo by Kate Reid as a very kinky widow and Henry Silva is part of Robertston's trigger-happy posse. It's directed by Harvey Hart and has a good, suspenseful music score by Doug Riley.
Review of Shoot
