This super-cheap, ineptly produced movie (directed by Jack Starrett!) is one of the worst westerns I've ever seen. It would make a great "bad western" double feature with Al Adamson's FIVE BLOODY GRAVES. It is available in Mill Creek's Western Classics 100 Movie Pack.
"Special Guest Star" Joel McCrae doesn't have much to do. At the beginning, he rides his horse up to an abandoned campsite, then has a flashback (in which Jody McCrae plays him as a younger man) which takes up the rest of the movie. At the end, the movie flashes forward to Joel McCrae again and he rides away.
Here's the plot: A group of outlaws slaughters some Indians and kidnaps a squaw. They force her to lead them to a gold mine. Meanwhile, the squaw's brother (an actor who appears to be covered in either brown shoe polish or that spray-on artificial suntan stuff) tracks them down.
There are some poorly choreographed fight scenes (where the punches miss their targets by about 4 inches), bad dialogue, bad costumes, and bad acting. However, some of you will be happy to see character actor Robert Tessier as "Two Card Charlie" and director Jack Starrett as "The Deacon" (who spends most of the movie quoting the Bible and making religious statements).
The best scene is when the squaw's brother catches one of the outlaws and hangs him by his feet over the basin at the end of a stream with his head just touching the water. Eventually, the water level rises, covers his head, and he drowns.
For bad western completists only!
QuoteFor bad western completists only!
are there any? (I'm from Massachusetts)
I own that Mill Creek set and was planning on watching that movie eventually. I hate to say it but now you've picqued my interest.