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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Apache Blood (1975)

An American western directed by Vern Piehl, starring Ray Danton.
A man is wounded in a fight with an Indian and left for dead. Some soldiers find him, but do nothing to help. After they leave him to die, he recovers enough to fight Indians again. He is being actively hunted by a Native American in a yellow shirt who has a reputation for murder.
The plot was murky as hell, the characters were undeveloped and the camera-work was horrifying. Large parts of the film were shot with such bad lighting that nothing could be seen and what could be seen didn't make much sense because the plot was not clearly presented. On the plus side, there was a hallucination scene in which the man was dying of dehydration and saw characters who weren't really there. Unfortunately, that's not enough to save a crappy film. I'm just rating it plain old bad.