Five Bloody Graves (1970)

User Rating:

1.6/10   

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:

Capital Reef National Monument, Torrey, 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.

Not as bad as people say it is.

Five Bloody Graves is one of the few real drive-in westerns. It's directed by the much maligned Al Adamson, who made many colorful schlockers in his day. With it's nonstop violence and gory excess, this is no exception.

In this the west is depicted as a vast wasteland of hate and savagery, populated by half mad characters including death himself. There isn't much plot except for numerous people wandering around the rugged Utah landscape trying to massacre one another. Being that this is narrated by the grim reaper, there's not much mystery as to where most of the characters wind up.

Incidentally, John Carradine, Scott Brady, and Robert Dix were back together a year later in a better drive-in western, Cain's Cuttroats.

As far as the detractors go, many of them were tricked by the deceiving advertising on the video box into thinking that this is a horror picture. Fans of B-westerns will most likely be more forgiving than the average viewer.