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Five Bloody Graves

  • 19691969
  • GPGP
  • 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
3.2/10
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Five Bloody Graves (1969)
  • Adventure
  • Drama
  • Romance
A former Civil War soldier returns to take revenge from a Yaqui chief who killed his wife in the marriage night. Death plays with both men, plus gun-runners and gold-runners, as her emissari... Read allA former Civil War soldier returns to take revenge from a Yaqui chief who killed his wife in the marriage night. Death plays with both men, plus gun-runners and gold-runners, as her emissaries on Earth, to do a large harvest of souls.A former Civil War soldier returns to take revenge from a Yaqui chief who killed his wife in the marriage night. Death plays with both men, plus gun-runners and gold-runners, as her emissaries on Earth, to do a large harvest of souls.
IMDb RATING
3.2/10
572
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  • Director
    • Al Adamson
  • Writer
    • Robert Dix(story)
  • Stars
    • Robert Dix
    • Scott Brady
    • Jim Davis
Top credits
  • Director
    • Al Adamson
  • Writer
    • Robert Dix(story)
  • Stars
    • Robert Dix
    • Scott Brady
    • Jim Davis
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 13User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    Five Bloody Graves (1969)
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    Robert Dix and Jill Woelfel in Five Bloody Graves (1969)
    Robert Dix and Jill Woelfel in Five Bloody Graves (1969)
    Robert Dix in Five Bloody Graves (1969)
    John 'Bud' Cardos in Five Bloody Graves (1969)
    John 'Bud' Cardos and Maria Polo in Five Bloody Graves (1969)
    Robert Dix in Five Bloody Graves (1969)
    Vicki Volante in Five Bloody Graves (1969)
    Al Adamson and Vicki Volante in Five Bloody Graves (1969)

    Top cast

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    Robert Dix
    Robert Dix
    • Ben Thompsonas Ben Thompson
    Scott Brady
    Scott Brady
    • Jim Wadeas Jim Wade
    Jim Davis
    Jim Davis
    • Clay Batesas Clay Bates
    John Carradine
    John Carradine
    • Boone Hawkinsas Boone Hawkins
    Paula Raymond
    Paula Raymond
    • Kansas Kellyas Kansas Kelly
    John 'Bud' Cardos
    John 'Bud' Cardos
    • Yaqui Chief Santagoas Yaqui Chief Santago
    • (as John Cardos)
    • …
    Darlene Lucht
    Darlene Lucht
    • Althea Richardsas Althea Richards
    • (as Tara Ashton)
    Gene Raymond
    Gene Raymond
    • The Voice of Deathas The Voice of Death
    • (voice)
    Julie Edwards
    • Lavinia Wadeas Lavinia Wade
    Ken Osborne
    • Dave Milleras Dave Miller
    • (as Kent Osborne)
    Vicki Volante
    Vicki Volante
    • Nora Milleras Nora Miller
    Ray Young
    Ray Young
    • Horace Wigginsas Horace Wiggins
    Victor Adamson
    Victor Adamson
    • Rawhideas Rawhide
    • (as Denver Dixon)
    Fred Meyers
    • Driveras Driver
    Keith Durphy
    Maria Polo
    • Little Fawnas Little Fawn
    Jill Woelfel
    • Valas Val
    Al Adamson
    • Yaqui Attacking Nora by the Roe-deeras Yaqui Attacking Nora by the Roe-deer
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Al Adamson
    • Writer
      • Robert Dix(story) (screenplay)
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    Storyline

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    Wandering across the desert landscape of Goblin Valley, Utah. Ben Thompson, a former lawman has been hunting down Yaqui Indians, after his wife was killed by the savage Yaqui Indian chieftain Santago. After saving a woman from two Yaqui Indians, Robert reunites with former girlfriend Nora Miller and saves her from a attack by Santago and his band of Yaqui Indians. But Nora's husband Dave Miller asks Ben to leave thinking Ben and Nora were having a affair while he was been away. After both Nora and Dave are slaughtered by Santago, Ben is joined by group of people from a wagon train who are stranded in the middle of nowhere and a group of gunrunners who sold their weapons to Santago and his band, Ben and his companions tries to get along with each other, if they are to survive Santago and his band's murderous rampage and Ben intends to get his vengeance on Santago. —Daniel Williamson
    • graves
    • arizona territory
    • arizona
    • sonora mexico
    • former soldier
    • 20 more
    • Plot summary
    • Plot synopsis
    • Taglines
      • Lust-Mad Men and Lawless Women in a Vicious and Sensuous Orgy of Slaughter!
    • Genres
      • Adventure
      • Drama
      • Romance
      • Western
    • Certificate
      • GP
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      A segment of the theme music "The Awakening" by John Pearson was later used as the theme for ITV's "News at Ten" in the UK.
    • Goofs
      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.
    • Quotes

      Clay Bates: [after negotiating with the Yaqui chief] He just gave us two days to get out of the territory.

      Horace Wiggins: Two days? Then what?

      Clay Bates: Supper. Supper for ants.

      Horace Wiggins: Ants for supper? Oh, no!

      Clay Bates: Oh, shut your yap.

      Horace Wiggins: [finally catching on] You mean WE'RE the supper?

    • Alternate versions
      The film was cut for TV (in 1970), eliminating some nudity and violence, and that was used for a wider theatrical release (namely in New York City, in 1971) and a VHS release in the USA and abroad (1982). The DVD version is based on the cut VHS version, which did not respect the widescreen original format.
    • Connections
      Referenced in A Stranger in My Home: Death's Final Cut (2014)

    User reviews13

    Review
    Top review
    1/10
    Ed Wood put to shame
    Al Adamson! Truly one of the Princes of schlock filming and a true heir to Edward D. Wood Jr.s Throne of cheese! Adamsons films have everything that makes the true crap movie so frightening: Illucid scripts, continuity errors of epic proportions, acting somewhere between barely OK to truly awful, former movie greats fallen into rough times, no budget whatsoever, cameos by the director himself (not in the Hitchcock manner, more in the Ed "Glenn or Glennda" Wood way)... you name it.

    Said that, this is one of his less crappy movies (we are talking about Adamson standards here though), mainly because of a really good director of photography (newly immigrated Vilmos Zsigmound, who later would shoot movies like Maverick and Assassins) and a gorgeous background scenery.

    But be not fooled! There is still plenty of badness provided, starting with the mind numbing narration by Death himself, reaction shots that don't match either the scene before or after (most often then not not even the time of day!), gratuitous violence of the disturbing kind etc. etc. etc.

    Watch out for appearances of B-movie legend John Carradine, the movies own screenwriter Robert Dix, 50s Western staple Victor Adamson and ubiquitous Scott Brady.

    To see Adamson at the peak (or rather bottom ) of his art, be sure not to miss the unbelievable "Dracula vs. Frankenstein", a movie that puts Plan 9 to shame! Highly recommended for fans of Adamson is also David Konow's great biography: Schlock-O-Rama: The Films of Al Adamson
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    • count_uebles
    • Feb 2, 2005

    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 18, 1970 (West Germany)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Five Bloody Days to Tombstone
    • Filming locations
      • Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, USA
    • Production companies
      • Independent-International Pictures
      • Dix International Pictures Inc.
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 28 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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