Cheyenne (1996)

Bobbie Phillips plays Cheyenne, a lovely young woman who runs away from her abusive older husband (Bo Svenson as Capt. Starrett) after she’s caught having an affair.

The well-off rancher can’t stand to let her go, so he separately hires a bounty hunter named Jeremiah (Gary Hudson) and a tracker named Haddox (M.C. Hammer) to bring her back, meaning they’ll be competing for the reward money.

Complicating matters, Cheyenne didn’t just run away from home. She snatched $21,000 her husband earned selling stolen army guns to bandits. Since the money was obtained illegally, she sees no problem with that.

Jeremiah catches up with Cheyenne first, and quickly falls prey to her seduction. But he’s been warned not to trust anything she says, so he’s wary as he finds himself falling for the dark-haired beauty.

Gary Hudson as Jeremiah in Cheyenne (1996)

Bobbie Phillips as Cheyenne in Cheyenne (1996)

Review:

This is not a good Western. The action scenes are poorly done and filled with slow-motion blood-letting that merely drives home that fact. The outlaws in the opening scene are wearing Western duds that have never seen a speck of dirt. The acting isn’t top notch either.

But Phillips and Hudson are sorta cute together. And Phillips shows off her alluring curves in a couple of nude scenes. Add the presence of M.C. Hammer, once a music megastar, and the film has a certain curiosity value.

The key to watching this movie: Don’t take it seriously. It’s clearly designed as a tongue-in-cheek sort of film. At least I hope so.

Bo Svenson as Capt. Starrett in Cheyenne (1996)

M.C. Hammer as Haddox in Cheyenne (1996)

Directed by:
Dimitri Logothetis

Cast:
Gary Hudson … Jeremiah
Bobbie Phillips … Cheyenne
Bo Svenson … Capt. Starrett
M.C. Hammer … Haddox
Bobby Bell … Razor
Tobin Bell … Marshal
Ritchie Montgomery … Foley (Starrett’s man)
Cole S. McKay … Axel (outlaw)

Runtime: 90 min.

Bobby Bell as Razor in Cheyenne (1996)

Tobin Bell as the marshal in Cheyenne (1996)

Memorable lines:

Jeremiah: “I’ll give you my standard speech. I’m a bounty hunter. I gotcha. Now, the fact that my job requires that I take the occasional human life makes me cry like a baby. I do not like bringing a man in dead. But I’ll take it over nothing. Every time.”

Starrett to Jeremiah, as he faces a hangman’s noose: “Don’t think of it as the end of your life. Think of it as the beginning of your death.”

Cheyenne, as Jeremiah nurses a head wound: “You oughta have somebody clean that.”
Jeremiah: “Yeah, someone without claws.”

Jeremiah to Starrett: “You know, my reasons for killing you and stealing your wife are piling up pretty tall.”

Jeremiah to Cheyenne, who’s holding a gun on him after he fetched a bedroll of money from a well filled with dead bodies: “I always did want to die stupid.

Capt. Starrett to Jeremiah: “Mister, I’m gonna start shooting up your feet. Then I’m gonna work my way up from there. And at some point, I guarantee you, you’re gonna want to tell me where my money is.”

Capt. Starrett to Cheyenne: “Woman, you put a hole in my leg. You steal everything I own. And then when I get you dragged back here, you make it seem as if I had wronged you. Isn’t there a limit to your mendacity?”

Bobbie Phillips as Cheyenne shows her feisty side in Cheyenne (1996)

Gary Hudson as Jeremiah in Cheyenne (1996)