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* SpareAMessenger: Valdez finds a henchman and politely asks him to deliver the message that he's coming for the BigBad. The henchmen pretends to ride off, then when he thinks he's out of range of Valdez's shotgun he turns and tries to shoot, gets wounded, and is put back on his horse by Valdez to [[AlmostDeadGuy deliver the message anyway]].
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''Valdez is Coming'' is a 1971 American Western film directed by Edwin Sherin and starring Creator/BurtLancaster, Susan Clark, Richard Jordan and Jon Cypher. The film is based on the Creator/ElmoreLeonard novel of the same name.
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''Valdez is Coming'' is a 1971 American Western film directed by Edwin Sherin and starring Creator/BurtLancaster, Susan Clark, Richard Jordan and Jon Cypher. The film is [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on on]] the Creator/ElmoreLeonard novel of the same name.
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* OneManArmy: Tanner picked on the wrong man when he had his men beat the aging town constable and drive him into the desert to die a slow and painful. Valdez returns and starts using every trick he learned fighting the Apache under General Crook. By the time Tanner catches up with Valdez, Valdez has killed eleven of his hired guns without taking a scratch himself.
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* OneManArmy: Tanner picked on the wrong man when he had his men beat the aging town constable and drive him into the desert to die a slow and painful.painful death. Valdez returns and starts using every trick he learned fighting the Apache under General Crook. By the time Tanner catches up with Valdez, Valdez has killed eleven of his hired guns without taking a scratch himself.
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''Valdez Is is Coming'' is a 1971 American Western film directed by Edwin Sherin and starring Creator/BurtLancaster, Susan Clark, Richard Jordan and Jon Cypher. The film is based on the Creator/ElmoreLeonard novel of the same name.
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* DangerousDeserter: This is how the Tanner paints the man he has killed at the start of the film: claiming he killed his commanding officer before deserting. After he is killed, Valdez finds the man's discharge papers on him; proving that Tanner was--at the very least--mistaken.
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* GunTwirling: Tanner performs a 'road agent spin' on one of his customers when he extends a pistol to him for his examination: seemingly for no other reason than he is a dick who enjoys showing off and pointing guns at people.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Tanner and his crew casually throw around terms like 'nigger', 'coon' and 'greaser'.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Tanner and his crew casually throw around terms like 'nigger', 'coon' and 'greaser'. Tanner also uses a church for target practice, showing him to be sacrilegious as well.
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Tanner thinks that because Valdez is old and Mexican, he must be a pushover. He punishes Valdez for having the audacity to suggest that he give $100 to the widow of the man he had killed in a case of mistaken identity by having his men tie a heavy cross to Valdez's back and drive him into the desert to die. Unfortunately for him, Valdez is TheDeterminator and a OneManArmy, and he returns to cut a swathe through Tanner's men until he gets the $100.
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* NWordPrivileges: Valdez does not the various racial epithets that Tanner and his men casually hurl around, but he and his friend Diego have no problems in referring to themselves as 'greasers'.
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* NWordPrivileges: Valdez does not like the various racial epithets that Tanner and his men casually hurl around, around ('nigger', 'coon', 'greaser', etc.), but he and his friend Diego have no problems in referring to themselves as 'greasers'.'greasers' when there are no Anglos about.
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* NWordPrivliges: NWordPrivileges: Valdez does not the various racial epithets that Tanner and his men casually hurl around, but he and his friend Diego have no problems in referring to themselves as 'greasers'.
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* IHaveYourWife: Valdez abducts Tanner's woman and plans to send her back to him in exchange for the $100. After the lengthy chase, Gay Erin is hoping that Tanner will make the exchange: not because she wants to to return to Tanner, but beacuse she is convinced Valdez is in the right.
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* ArmsDealer: One of Tanner's sidelines is selling weapons to revolutionaries in Mexico. He is supposed to be delivering a shipment of guns to Nogales, but instead chooses to stay and fight Valdez. As El Segundo points out to him at the end of the movie, [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot if he had gone to Nogales, he would have avoided all of the bloodshed]].
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* ArmsDealer: One of Tanner's sidelines is selling weapons to revolutionaries in Mexico. He is supposed to be delivering a shipment of guns to Nogales, but instead chooses to stay and fight Valdez. As El Segundo points out to him at the end of the movie, [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot if he had gone to Nogales, Nogales like he was supposed to, he would have avoided all of the bloodshed]].
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* NobleTopEnforcer: El Segundo lives and breathes this trope, and openly regards Valdez as a WorthyOpponent.
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* WorthyOpponent: Valdez and El Segundo come to regard each other as this as they play cat-and-mouse through the mountains. So much so, that when Tanner commands El Segundo to gun down the helpless Valdez, he refuses and orders his men not to fire as well. If Tanner wants Valdez dead, he will have to do his own dirty work.
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* ArmsDealer: One of Tanner's sidelines is selling weapons to revolutionaries in Mexico. He is supposed to be delivering a shipment of guns to Nogales, but instead chooses to stay and fight Valdez. As El Segundo points out to him at the end of the movie, [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot if he had gone to Nogales, he would have avoided all of the bloodshed]].
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* {{BFG}}: Valdez uses a Sharps buffalo rifle--the largest calibre longarm available in the WildWest--to wreak havoc on Tanner's hired guns as they are riding across the valley floor; killing five men. Lampshaded in the dialogue when El Segundo catches up with him:
-->'''El Segundo:''' ''[referring to Valdez's earlier marksmanship against his men]'' You know something, Bob Valdez, you hit one, I think, 700-800 yards.\\
'''Bob Valdez:''' ''[with certitude]'' Closer to a thousand.\\
'''El Segundo:''' What was it? Sharps?\\
'''Bob Valdez:''' ''[nods]'' My own load.\\
'''El Segundo:''' You ever hunt buffalo?\\
'''Bob Valdez:''' Apache.
-->'''El Segundo:''' ''[referring to Valdez's earlier marksmanship against his men]'' You know something, Bob Valdez, you hit one, I think, 700-800 yards.\\
'''Bob Valdez:''' ''[with certitude]'' Closer to a thousand.\\
'''El Segundo:''' What was it? Sharps?\\
'''Bob Valdez:''' ''[nods]'' My own load.\\
'''El Segundo:''' You ever hunt buffalo?\\
'''Bob Valdez:''' Apache.
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* SawedOffShotgun: Valdez favours a short-barrelled shotgun, the kind stagecoach guards use, as his primary weapon.
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* OneManArmy: Tanner picked on the wrong man when he had his men beat the aging town constable and drive him into the desert to die a slow and painful. Valdez returns and starts using every trick he learned fighting the Apache under General Crook. By the time Tanner catches up with Valdez, Valdez has killed eleven of his hired guns without taking a scratch himself.
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* BadassBandoleer: Valdez wears a bandoleer of shotgun shells over his old uniform.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Summed up the final lines of the film:
-->''' Frank Tanner:''' I shoulda killed you three days ago.\\
'''El Segundo:''' Or gone to Nogales.\\
'''Bob Valdez:''' Or paid the hundred dollars.
-->''' Frank Tanner:''' I shoulda killed you three days ago.\\
'''El Segundo:''' Or gone to Nogales.\\
'''Bob Valdez:''' Or paid the hundred dollars.
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* BadassBadoleer: Valdez wears a bandoleer of shotgun shells over his old uniform.
* TheDeterminator: Valdez is determined to get Tanner to pay $100 to the dead man's widow, and nothing--not even being beaten and left for dead in the desert--will prevent him from achieving this.
* TheGunfighterWannabe: R.L. Davis fancies himself as a big-time hired gun, and seems fairly accurate when shooting at a distance, but goes to pieces when he gets in a real gunfight with Valdez, and loses his nerve completely after he is wounded.
* TheGunfighterWannabe: R.L. Davis fancies himself as a big-time hired gun, and seems fairly accurate when shooting at a distance, but goes to pieces when he gets in a real gunfight with Valdez, and loses his nerve completely after he is wounded.
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* TitleDrop: "Valdez is coming" is the message Valdez gives to Tanner's wounded henchman to deliver to Tanner.
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* HumanShield: After breaking into Tanner's compound, Valdez grabs Gay Erin and uses her as a human shield to make his escape: knowing that Tanner's hired guns won't dare shoot at them for fear of hitting Tanner's woman.
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''Valdez Is Coming'' is a 1971 American Western film directed by Edwin Sherin and starring Creator/BurtLancaster, Susan Clark, Richard Jordan and Jon Cypher. The film is based on the Creator/ElmoreLeonard novel of the same name.
Aging town constable Bob Valdez (Lancaster) is tricked into killing an innocent man by powerful rancher Frank Tanner (Cypher), whose hired gun R.L. Davis (Jordan) shot up the hovel where the wrongly accused man and his Indian wife were trapped. Valdez believes it would be a fair gesture to raise $200 for the widow, $100 from Tanner and the rest from others in town. Tanner is livid at the old man's suggestion. He orders ranch hand El Segundo and his men to tie Valdez to a heavy wooden cross and drive him into the desert. Valdez survives and recovers and summons up his days in the U.S. Cavalry in order to fight them. Valdez wounds one of the henchmen and sends him back to Tanner with the message, "Valdez is coming."
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* BedouinRescueService: After his ordeal on the cross in the desert, Valdez awakes his friend Diego's ranch. Diego tells him that he heard the dogs barking and found him crawling in the desert and brought him home. Valdez later learns that it was Davis who cut his ropes.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: El Segundo and his men tie Valdez to a heavy wooden cross and drive him into the desert.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Tanner and his crew casually throw around terms like 'nigger', 'coon' and 'greaser'.
* StillWearingTheOldColors: When Valdez recovers from his ordeal in the desert and begins his one man war against Tanner, he dons his old 7th Cavalry uniform.
Aging town constable Bob Valdez (Lancaster) is tricked into killing an innocent man by powerful rancher Frank Tanner (Cypher), whose hired gun R.L. Davis (Jordan) shot up the hovel where the wrongly accused man and his Indian wife were trapped. Valdez believes it would be a fair gesture to raise $200 for the widow, $100 from Tanner and the rest from others in town. Tanner is livid at the old man's suggestion. He orders ranch hand El Segundo and his men to tie Valdez to a heavy wooden cross and drive him into the desert. Valdez survives and recovers and summons up his days in the U.S. Cavalry in order to fight them. Valdez wounds one of the henchmen and sends him back to Tanner with the message, "Valdez is coming."
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* BedouinRescueService: After his ordeal on the cross in the desert, Valdez awakes his friend Diego's ranch. Diego tells him that he heard the dogs barking and found him crawling in the desert and brought him home. Valdez later learns that it was Davis who cut his ropes.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: El Segundo and his men tie Valdez to a heavy wooden cross and drive him into the desert.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Tanner and his crew casually throw around terms like 'nigger', 'coon' and 'greaser'.
* StillWearingTheOldColors: When Valdez recovers from his ordeal in the desert and begins his one man war against Tanner, he dons his old 7th Cavalry uniform.
