Lisa Barnes is Belle MacLure, a female bounty hunter known for her red boots. She rides into a town out West and quickly learns of new potential prey.
Seems two scoundrels, brothers Felix and Roscoe Wolf, gunned down a man in the local saloon in a dispute over a card game. That earned them a $1,000 price on their heads.
Belle winds up capturing Roscoe and parades him to the sheriff’s office, only to learn she’ll have to share the reward will fellow bounty man William Cole.
A handsome lad, Cole also just arrived in town and already has Felix locked up in the sheriff’s jail.
Turns out both brothers were henchmen for a town boss named Clayton (John Marrs), and he’s alarmed by William Cole’s arrival in town.
So alarmed that he summons Belle MacLure to his ranch and offers her $8,000 if she’ll deliver William Cole to him. She demands $10,00 for the job.
But rather than becoming adversaries, William Cole and Belle MacLure will become partners in an attempt to catch a man known as The Easterner (Sky C. Donovan).
He’s the latest gunman in Clayton’s employ, and he’s the most blood-thirsty of them all.
Belle wants him for the bounty on his head. Cole wants him for a treacherous deed committed during the Civil War.
Lisa Barnes as Belle MacLure, a female bounty hunter known for her red boots in For the Reward (2022)
Beau Yotty as William Cole, looking for information on a wanted man in For the Reward (2022)
Review:
A low-budget film where nothing works very well, and that’s especially true of the action scenes.
Director Beau Yotty fits the bill as the handsome stranger with a fast gun, but he gets shot in the chest and goes right on bounty hunting as though the wound is merely a scratch.
Lisa Barnes looks quite nice in cowgirl duds and has a pretty smile, but flashes that smile way too often to be taken seriously as the efficient bounty hunter she’s supposed to be portraying.
In fact, of the cast members, only Sky C. Donovan as the quite menacing looking Easterner does a very good job of selling his role.
The marked the first full-length Western directed by Yotty, who’s nickname is American Mustang and who is a blood relative of Buffalo Bill Cody, according to his IMDb profile.
John Marrs as Clayton, the crooked town boss in For the Reward (2022)
Sky C. Donovan as The Easterner, a hired gun working for Clayton in For the Reward (2022)
Directed by:
Beau Yotty
Cast:
Beau Yotty … William Cole
Lisa Barnes … Belle MacLure
John Marrs … Clayton
Sky C. Donovan … The Easterner
Katrina F. Kelly … Mae
Mark Speno … Sheriff Boyle
Mike Doherty … Graham
Matt Broome … Bull
Frank Haraksin … Mr. Curtis
William Chandler … Felix Wolf
Larry Judkins … Jed
Keith Lopez …. Roscoe Wolf
Sophia Okonsky … Mrs. Clayton
Jim Perry …. Warren
Kim A. Williams … Abigail
Madline Giancola … Betsy
Runtime: 70 min.
Mark Speno as Sheriff Boyle, trying to shield female bounty hunter Belle MacLure in For the Reward (2022)
Katrina F. Kelly as Mae, the saloon girl Belle MacLure befriends in For the Reward (2022)
Memorable lines:
Bartender, when two drunks shoot down a card player right in front of the town sheriff: “Why didn’t you do something?”
Sheriff Boyle: “They caught me by surprise.”
Felix Wolf: “The bounty hunter bushwhacked me at the creek. He caught me while I was washing up.”
Roscoe, his brother: “Washin’ up? There’s no need to wash up. We could have been in Mexico.”
Clayton to Belle MacLure: “Your reputation and those red boots proceed you.”
William Cole: “Not that you’d pay my warning no mind, but The Easterner is a violent man.”
Belle MacLure, laughing: “So are all the men I catch and turn over to the law.”
Clayton: “What am I paying you for?”
The Eastener: “You damn well aren’t paying me enough to die.”
Lisa Barnes as Belle MacLure, teasing William Cole (Beau Yotty) after snagging a bounty he was after in For the Reward (2022)
Matt Broome as Bull, one of Clayton’s henchmen in For the Reward (2022)
Sophia Okonsky as Mrs. Clayton, ready to defend the Clayton ranch in For the Reward (2022)
Beau Yotty as William Cole and Lisa Barnes as Belle MacLure, defending themselves in an unusual position in For the Reward (2022)
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