Five Bloody Graves (1970)

User Rating:

1.5/10   

Director:

Al Adamson

Writers:

Robert Dix (screenplay)
Robert Dix (story)

Release Date:

1 February 1970 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

Lust-Mad Men and Lawless Women in a Vicious and Sensuous Orgy of Slaughter!

Plot:

A lone gunman hunts the fearsome Apache Satago across the plains of the Wild West. When Satago's marauders ambush a stagecoach...

Plot Keywords:

Apaches | Knife Fight | Revenge | Scalping | B Western

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)

Also Known As:

Five Bloody Days to Tombstone
Gun Riders
The Lonely Man

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Frutah, Utah, USA

Company:

Dix International Pictures Inc.

Goofs:

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.

One of the very worst films ever made.

I've seen nearly two thousand films and this ranks amongst the worst ten I've ever seen. Its violence is crude and unnecessary; its plot sounds totally straight-forward, yet is somehow confused; its music is plundered from other sources thoughtlessly (almost unrelated to the on-screen action at some points, especially when the music which British viewer's will recognise as the music from ITV's evening news roars into life during one particularly naff action sequence); and the acting is amateurish to the point of school-pantomime level. What do you expect from a picture that's from the Al Adamson school of lousy film directing? Believe me, it takes a real big effort to sit through this junk - I managed it, but I can't say that I'm proud of the achievement.