Five bloody graves
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Five bloody graves |
| Original title | Five Bloody Graves |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Al Adamson |
| script | Robert Dix |
| production | Al Adamson |
| music | Ed. Norton |
| camera | Vilmos Zsigmond |
| cut |
William J. Faris , Peter Perry |
| occupation | |
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Five Bloody Graves (original title: Five Bloody Graves ) is an American western by the low-budget film director Al Adamson from 1969. The main actor Robert Dix wrote the script and also worked as a co-producer.
action
Ben Thompson is a former law enforcement officer who is on a vengeance against the Yaqui Indians , whose chief Santago killed his wife. He saves a couple from the Indians who are chasing them. They introduce themselves as Joe Lightfoot and his wife Little Fawn. It turns out that Joe is Santago's half-brother . Ben continues his journey alone and passes a farm where he finds Nora Miller attacked by an Indian. In a knife fight, Ben kills the Indian. Nora had been left home alone by her husband Dave. Ben wakes up on her porch until the next day , when Dave returns from town. This is angry about the presence of Ben and chases him away. Before Ben rides off, he tells Nora to retreat to the city for safety; However, the couple does not follow the good advice and is later murdered and scalped by the Indians .
Ben meets Joe Lightfoot again. This is seriously injured, he was attacked by Yaqui and hit by her arrows . Ben tends his wounds, and when Joe is better they make their way to his wife Little Fawn. This has meanwhile been taken up by Clay and Horace, who supplied the Indians with weapons. They rape and kill the woman and steal her silver necklace. Ben and Joe are late and all they have to do is bury Little Fawn.
Ben and Joe join forces in their campaign of vengeance and grab a little later in the attack of the Yaqui on a covered wagon - stretching one that already several settlers had cost the life. The rescued settlers include the preacher Boone Hawkins , the pimp Jim Wade and his prostitute. The survivors continue their journey to Tombstone with Ben and Joe, where they encounter Clay and Horace who join them. During a break, Clay offers the prostitute Lavinia the stolen necklace for sex, but before that happens, he is knocked down by her pimp Jim. Meanwhile, Lavinia dies from an arrow from an Indian who has sneaked up on the trek. While Jim kills the Indian, Joe discovers his dead wife's necklace in Clay's hand.
Horace takes Althea, another prostitute, hostage and demands that Joe drop his gun. He is shot dead by preacher Hawkins who had a gun hidden in his Bible. Clay manages to escape, but is caught by Joe after a short pursuit. Clay is fixed on the prairie floor by Joe, he is said to be the victim of ants . At the moment of his triumph over his wife's murderer, Joe is hit by a bullet from one of the weapons Clay and Horace supplied to the Yaqui. With his last breath, Joe kills Clay with his knife.
The trek is attacked again by Indians, with numerous casualties; among other things, the preacher is killed by an Indian arrow. The fight culminates in a duel between Ben and the Indian chief Santago. After a lengthy knife fight, Ben succeeds in revenge and kills Santago. Ben then buries his fallen friends and rides away.
criticism
“A western full of corpses, in which Indians lose their hunting grounds and whites avenge their dead. The unusually distant depiction of violence prevents the viewer from appreciating the hero's shooting skills. All in all a somewhat laborious film, without tension, with beautiful landscapes. "
The New York Times saw “a plain, rushed, and utterly terrible little western without a single bloody grave. Its only virtue is that everyone takes a bite out of it, with the inexcusable exception of one who wrote it. It's Robert Dix, son of the late Richard, and he plays a sheriff. "
Web links
- Five bloody graves in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Five bloody graves. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Screen: Tales of Horror. Reviewed by Howard Thompson, New York Times, March 5, 1971