Racist stereotyping par excellence

Kind of of hard to believe that such blatant stereotypes would appear in a '67 flick, but it's a Western, a genre where stereotypes die hard.

"Gone With the Wind" type of ordering black servants around like they were robots is disconcerting as it is, but perhaps worse are the Indian renegades played by white actors and the Injuns' sole goal is to drink some whiskey. They then get drunk as skunks and start dancing around howling at the moon, with the cowboy white guys counting on if they can't out-shoot the Injuns they sure can out-drink 'em!

There's actually a good story in this movie - anticipating in some ways 1973's Fonda/Hill's "My Name Is Nobody" about an aging gunfighter bonding with a younger gunfighter who wants to kill him - but the sophistication of that story suffers mightily with the beyond-suspension-of-belief stereotypes.

Tend to forgive past stereotyping indiscretions as a product of the times, but in '67, when racial equal rights awareness was at full bloom, these stick out like a sore thumb that prevents getting into the movie today, as it was on the Western channel.

Royal Dano, an Italian(?) from NYC, who is a great character actor, does one of the most ridiculous Injun dances while drunk out of his mind...

The Mexican stereotypes are actually kind compared to the African & Native American ones...

And there's actually white stereotyping too - Angie Dickinson as the Madame of Ill Repute who just wants a decent life and Glenn Ford as the killer who just wants a quiet life - but they're the leads, so all the other stereotypes subordinate to them to make this flick a fine mess indeed...