Directed by Al Adamson and written by Robert Dix, who plays Ben Thompson, Five Bloody Graves is about Ben battling Satago (John "Bud" Cardos), the man who scalped his ex-girlfriend Nora (Vicki Volante) and her husband (Ken Osborne). Cardos is also Joe Lightfoot, Satago's brother, who is half-white and half-Native American.
Ben was a former lawman and now, he wanders the Wild West - including an amazingly named town Goblin Valley, Utah, which is a real place - before he helps holy man Boone Hawkins (John Carradine) and a stagecoach full of showgirls like Kansas Kelly (Paula Raymond) and Althea Richards (Darlene Lucht) through Native American territory while death itself (Gene Raymond) narrating explaining how Ben and Satago are his messangers on Earth. It's all very metal.
This also looks pretty great thanks to cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, who went on to win an Oscar for Best Cinematography for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as well as filming McCabe & Mrs. Millers, The Deer Hunter, Deliverance, The Black Dahlia and many more.
The tagline "Lust-Mad Men and Lawless Women in a Vicious and Sensuous Orgy of Slaughter!" is enough to get me in the drive-in for this.
Ben was a former lawman and now, he wanders the Wild West - including an amazingly named town Goblin Valley, Utah, which is a real place - before he helps holy man Boone Hawkins (John Carradine) and a stagecoach full of showgirls like Kansas Kelly (Paula Raymond) and Althea Richards (Darlene Lucht) through Native American territory while death itself (Gene Raymond) narrating explaining how Ben and Satago are his messangers on Earth. It's all very metal.
This also looks pretty great thanks to cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, who went on to win an Oscar for Best Cinematography for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as well as filming McCabe & Mrs. Millers, The Deer Hunter, Deliverance, The Black Dahlia and many more.
The tagline "Lust-Mad Men and Lawless Women in a Vicious and Sensuous Orgy of Slaughter!" is enough to get me in the drive-in for this.