A traveling gravedigger during an (unspecified) war adopts a orphan he finds alone in the desert. After the war with the orphan grown and business slow, the orphan begins to generate business himself by shooting people. The orphan wants to make one big score by robbing a bank but the gravedigger resists. Their dream is to open a fancy funeral parlor and cemetery. The orphan becomes obsessed with a prostitute he saw who was later abandoned by her outlaw partner after a robbery attempt on a gold wagon goes bad. He eventually leaves the gravedigger to find her
Cinematography
Bleached Mexican desert that swallows characters whole.
Acting
Glen Lee's dead-eyed orphan—unsettlingly calm violence.
Director
José Bolaños
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
José Bolaños was primarily a TV director; this remains his most exported theatrical feature, likely because it was shot in English with American actors in Mexico.
Made during the dying gasp of the classic Hollywood western, it anticipates the 1970s 'revisionist' wave but got buried—fitting for a film about gravediggers.
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