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I rode formerly with deranged Douglas and his boys back in '53 when we rode across Wyoming, plundering and killing other lives wreaking death and destruction. I've killed seventeen men and robbed countless banks and stages. My calling card is this belt I wear, which I made from the skin of a six-foot rattler, whose head I bit off on a bet!
~ Bad Jack Cutter about his outlaw career.
I'm ready, I'm loose, I'm walking death and destruction!
~ Bad Jack Cutter.

Bad Jack Cutter is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Naman Tucker) of Joe Camp's 1976 slapstick film Hawmps?. He is a brutal and cantankerous outlaw who wants to get revenge on a U.S. Army lieutenant named Howard Clemmons for thwarting his attempts to hang Naman Tucker.

He was portrayed by the late Jack Elam, who would go on to play Big Mac from Disney's 1979 film The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again.

Biography[]

While Clemmons and Tibbs are racing against Tucker from Fort Van Verde to Dos Rios, they learn from one of their soldiers, LeRoy that Tucker and his men got captured by outlaws at Dagger's Point and are sentenced to be hanged tomorrow for following the law. Clemmons and Tibbs disguise themselves as outlaws and sneak into the town, where they meet Cutter. After discussing the history of their careers as outlaws, Cutter agrees to have Clemmons and Tibbs join his gang. Cutter then directs the two soldiers to the jail cell where Tucker is being held. The soldiers supply Tucker and his men with guns and try to break the bars free by using a horse, but the horse is too weak to pull, so they head off to use a camel instead. When Cutter heads over to inspect the two men, they pretend to beat up Tucker to prevent Cutter from learning about their whereabouts. Cutter requests the two soldiers to join him, but they decline the offer and he leaves. After the camel successfully demolishes the jail, a gunfight ensues between the soldiers and outlaws. Tucker returns with reinforcements to distract the outlaws, but leaves the scene, leaving Clemmons and Tibbs to be cornered by Cutter and his men. However, the camel cavalry arrives in the nick of time and manages to rescue the two soldiers before Cutter and his men could capture them.

Later, while the camel cavalry is searching for water in the inhospitable desert, Cutter finds Clemmons all alone with his two camels and ambushes him, while the two camels flee to the rest of the cavalry. Over time, Cutter proceeds to sadistically taunt Clemmons, while the lieutenant tries to flee once he realizes that he's out of ammunition. The next day, Cutter begins to approach Clemmons, threatening to mutilate and murder him. When Clemmons comes out of hiding and offers Cutter to surrender, he shoots Clemmons, apparently killing him. The camel cavalry arrives at the scene in time and apprehend Cutter, whilst he gloats about his apparent victory. When the cavalry finds out that Clemmons survived the gunshot and that he used the book Jennifer Hawkins gave him to shield him from Cutter's bullet, Cutter throws a tantrum and whines about how the soldiers always win.

When the camel cavalry resumes their race against Tucker and his horse cavalry, Cutter joins their team and helps them win the race after redeeming himself. The camel cavalry finally arrives at Dos Rios, where Cutter can be seen waving at the crowd.

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Trivia[]

  • At one point in the film, Clemmons had a nightmare about getting attacked by Cutter before rolling down a hill into a dead skeleton.
  • It is unknown how Cutter managed to track down Clemmons at the waterhole or how he recognized him from a distance, especially since Clemmons was wearing his military uniform instead of his disguised outlaw outfit. It is also ironic that he claimed that his act of apparently killing Clemmons made it the happiest day of his life, even though he didn't kill Tibbs as well, considering that he too foiled his plan to hang Tucker.

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