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Five Bloody Graves (1970)
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1 February 1970 (USA)
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Lust-Mad Men and Lawless Women in a Vicious and Sensuous Orgy of Slaughter!
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A lone gunman hunts the fearsome Apache Satago across the plains of the Wild West. When Satago's marauders ambush a stagecoach...
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"Death" has the best lines of dialog in the movie.
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(Credited cast)| Robert Dix | ... | Ben Thompson | |
| Scott Brady | ... | Jim Wade | |
| Jim Davis | ... | Clay Bates | |
| John Carradine | ... | Boone Hawkins | |
| Paula Raymond | ... | Kansas Kelly | |
| John 'Bud' Cardos | ... | Joe Lightfoot / Setago (as John Cardos) | |
| Darlene Lucht | ... | Althea Richards (as Tara Ashton) | |
| Ken Osborne | ... | Dave Miller (as Kent Osborne) | |
| Vicki Volante | ... | Nora Miller | |
| Victor Adamson | ... | Rawhide (as Denver Dixon) | |
| Ray Young | ... | Horace Wiggins | |
| Julie Edwards | ... | Lavinia Wade | |
| Fred Meyers | ... | Driver | |
| Maria Polo | ... | Little Fawn | |
| Gene Raymond | ... | Death (voice) |
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88 min
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Factual errors: One character tells another that Yaqui Indians and Apache Indians are the same tribe, the only difference being that Mexicans call them "Yaquis" and Americans call them "Apaches". That is not true. Yaquis and Apaches are two entirely different tribes and have little in common. The Apaches were fierce, brutal and warlike, regularly attacking American whites, Mexicans and other Indian tribes (including the Yaquis), often simultaneously, and regularly stole horses, rustled herds and kidnapped women and children from other tribes, Mexican villages and US settlements. The Yaquis were a much less aggressive and warlike tribe, existing mainly by subsistence farming and keeping to themselves in the mountains.
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Al Adamson may not have been a very polished film-maker, but he was certainly a determined and prolific one. He tried his hand at several genres, and this is one of his Westerns. It involves two characters - Ben Thompson (Robert Dix) and Setago (John "Bud" Cardos) out to get one another; it's personal for Ben since Setago was the person who murdered his wife.
"Five Bloody Graves", also known as "Gun Riders", hearkens back to the days of the politically incorrect Western. Basically, it's your old-fashioned cowboys vs. Indians tale. While it's never terribly interesting, the story is at least simple enough to follow. The movie's divided into various episodes of battles between the two sides. These include a log cabin being burned up, in one of the movies' better scenes. Adamson at least moves this movie forward at a decent enough clip, preventing it from ever becoming too boring.
One thing that certainly doesn't work is the library music which is often inappropriate for a Western. It just takes a viewer right out of the action.
Star Dix also is credited with story and screenplay. In addition to him and Cardos (who also plays the role of Joe Lightfoot), other veterans of Adamson movies include John Carradine, Jim Davis, and Vicki Volante. Other cast members include Scott Brady, Ray Young, Paula Raymond, and Darlene Lucht. The best touch is having Gene Raymond provide the voice of "Death", and he has some actually pretty good dialog.
"Five Bloody Graves" is a fairly entertaining movie of its type.
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