Bite the Bullet

Fast-paced and episodic, this exciting western adventure chronicles a 600 mile cross-country horse race. The stories of the individual racers unfold as they gallop their sturdy steeds across the rugged, unforgiving terrain. The cinematography is exceptional and the stories move right along., A contrasting group of riders enter a 700-mile horse marathon across Southwest America. Mutual feelings of distrust and a difficult race through the desert puts each rider up to the ultimate test. Filmed in Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico., Epic story of a legend of the old West, the Endurance Horse Race, covering 700 miles of mountains and desert. Nine entrants set off from Denver, Colorado, each hoping to win the $2,000 prize. They include Candice Bergen as a hard-boiled ex-prostitute, Gene Hackman as a former cavalryman and Ian Bannen as an aristocratic Englishman looking for kicks. Not everyone lives to survive the course and as their numbers dwindle, the competitors develop a grudging respect for each other., Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen and James Coburn star in this Western about a group of colourful characters who enter a gruelling cross-country horse race in the desert., A group of ex-rough riders, an ex-prostitute and a gunfighter enter a horse race in the desert., Gene Hackman stars in this Oscar nominated western as one of 9 adventurers competing in a high stakes, 700 mile horse race., Richard Brooks wrote and directed this action yarn about a 700-mile horse race across the turn-of-the-20th-century Southwest.