Cry Blood Apache (1970)
A party of five men discover gold in a small Apache camp. They murder everyone there except for one young woman, who they keep alive hoping she'll lead them to more gold. Only Pitcalin among the five men shows kindness to the prisoner. An Apache brave who was away from the camp discovers the massacre and buries the dead. Then he tracks the murderers and brings slow but steady vengeance upon them.
Revenge... Slow and fatal!
The Deacon: Now, we made a bargain. I'm gonna build you a church and you're gonna lead me to some gold. Remember? But, Lord, you're not helping at all!
Eagletail Mountains, Arizona, USA
Cabeza Prieta Mountains, Arizona, USA
Coyote Mountains Wilderness, Arizona, USA
Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona, USA
Sequoia National Forest, California, USA
The film features Rik Nervik, Carolyn Stellar and Dawn Lyn, the parents and sister of future singer and teen idol Leif Garrett.
Filmed in 1967 but not released until 1970.
Father and son Joel McCrae and Jody McCrea worked together, portraying the same character at different ages.
Factual errors
The snake that crawled out of the bag after Two Cards' death looked like a garter snake instead of a rattlesnake.
Incorrectly regarded as goofs
When Vittorio is crossing the river, two claps of thunder can be heard, but the bright sunlight indicates that there are no clouds in the sky. EDIT: During Summer Monsoon in the Desert Southwest, it is common to hear thunder from storms that are miles away while the sky is clear and sunny at your location.
Revealing mistakes
In the first scene, some of the slain Indians show signs of movement (breathing, etc.).
When Billy attempts suicide with his pistol, he pulls back the cock and closes the frizzen. He then puts the pistol to his head and is only stopped when the Apache warrior snatches the pistol out of his hand. BUT, he never primed the pistol by putting powder in the flash pan. This means that had he pulled the trigger, the pistol would have only sparked. With nothing in the pan, the sparks would have had nothing to ignite, and nothing would have flashed. If nothing flashed, then there would have been no flash to travel through the touch hole and ignite the main charge (and send the ball down the barrel and into his head). Someone of this era would have known better, and would have primed his pistol if he intended to use it (whether for self-defense or self-destruction).
When Benji has a change of heart about leaving his brother behind, the men return to Billy. Benji finds Billy's pistol, picks it up and exclaims that it is still primed. BUT he never pushes the frizzen forward to see if it is primed (if there is powder in the pan). He would only have seen the frizzen was back and covering the pan. Without pushing the frizzen forward to expose the powder, he could not have known if it was or was not primed.
With the final fight between Pitcalin and the Apache warrior, the woman primes the rifle without pulling back the cock. The cock in the forward position would have impeded the priming of the rifle as the cock would been blocked the flash pan. To prime the rifle, the cock is pulled back first. Then the pan is primed. Finally, the frizzen is pulled back to cover the pan, thereby readying the rifle for firing.