And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave (1972)

Craig Hill plays Jeff Sullivan, one of many gunman hired by Wells Fargo to track down the bandit Glenn Kovacs.

The one who accomplishes the mission will be showered in gold, the company promises.

Sullivan accepts the badge. After all, he has an old score to settle with Kovacs. And while he doesn’t know where Kovacs is hiding out, he knows his half-brother Dan Baker (Angel Aranda) is rotting away in prison. Free Baker, and he just might lead the way to the bandit he’s really searching for, Sullivan figures.

But a fellow Wells Fargo gunman named Corrales wants Baker for the $3,000 price on his head. And, once freed, Baker has ideas that don’t include getting turned in for bounty money.

There’s an old score to settle with a former lover named Myrna and a partner named Donovan. And the possibility of a new life with a lovely young lady named Susan.

Craig HIll as Jeff Sullivan, briding a prison guard to release Dan Baker into his custody in And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave (1972)

Angel Aranda as Dan Barker, trying to avoid an unnecessary gun battle in And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave (1972)

Review:

Certainly not the worst of Hill’s many Spaghettis, this is a prolonged three-sided game of cat and mouse. all leading up to a three-sided shootout.

Poor Dan Barker is the film’s punching bag. Over the course of the film, he’s whipped, beaten by prison guards, shot and tied up with barb wire!

Hey, but he does land Maria Pia Conte, who’s ravishing as Susan.

Fernando Sancho, on the other hand, is rather annoying in an over-the-top performance that doesn’t quite fit the mood of the rest of the film.

Fernando Sancho as Pancho Corrales, a man who wears a badge but is more interested in money than justice in And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave (1972)

Maria Pia Conte as Susan, a young woman who finds herself falling for Dan Barker in spite of his past in And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave (1972)

Directed by:
Juan Bosch

Cast:
Craig Hill … Jeff Sullivan
Angel Aranda … Dan Barker
Maria Pia Conte … Susan
Fernando Sancho … Pancho Corrales
Dominique Boschero … Myrna
Frank Brana … Glenn Kovacs
Raf Baldassarre … Sheriff
Ivan Staccioli … Donovan
Joaquin Diaz … Ted Salomon
José Antonio Amor … Deputy Jerry

Also with: Carlos Ronda, Antonio Molino Rojo, Juan Torres, Gaspar ‘Indio’ González, Fernando de Miragaya, Lorena Montiel, Isidro Novellas, Ricardo Moyan, Raúl Aparici, Sergio Aparici, Miquel Bordoy

aka:
Los buitres cavaran tu fosa

Score: Bruno Nicoli

Runtime: 91 min,.

Frank Brana as Glenn Kovacs, the outlaw with a premium price on his head in And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave (1972)

Raf Baldassare as the Silver Town Sheriff eager to help Jeff Sullivan bring Glenn Kovacs to justice in And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave (1972)z

Memorable lines:

Sullivan: “Barker, you leave me here alive and you’ll regret it.”
Barker: “That’ll just have to be one more thing I regret. Happy walking.”

Deputy: “I got four notches carved on my .45, Mr. Barker. How bout yours? Got a lot, too?”
Barker: “Just let me be.”:
Deputy: “I’d measure up to you easy enough, I believe.”
Barker: “So your notches haven’t made you as famous as you want to be, huh?”
Deputy: “They weren’t high-class notches like you’d be.”

Corrales, to the sheriff, pointing to his own badge: “Look here. Wells Fargo. This piece of tin gives me carta blancha. So now Corrales is legal.”
Sheriff: “You bastard.”
Corrales: “I know. A legal one.”

Corrales: “No jokes, Sullivan. Or I’ll double your belly button.”

Ivan Staccioli as Donovan, accused of cheating an ex-partner and stealing his money in And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave (1972)

Dominique Broschero as Myrna, confronted with the unexpected return of an ex-lover in And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave (1972)

Trivia:

About that title? Seems in Silvertown, the Wells Fargo’s detectives are nicknamed crows. At one point, the sheriff refers to the wounded Jeff Sullivan as a one-armed crow. And the crows certainly fill a few graves over the course of the film.

Two years before this film, Craig Hill starred in the bizarre “Assignment Terror.” Aliens from a dying planet come to Earth, bring two dead scientists back to life and use them to re-animate man’s most feared adversaries, like Frankenstein, the Mummy and the Werewolf. It’s all part of their plot to conquer the planet. HIll’s job: To uncover the dastardly plot.

Jose Antonio Amor as Jerry, a deputy out to make a name for himself as a quick gun in And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave (1972)

Joaquin Diaz as Ted Salomon, the prison guard who turns Dan Barker over to Jeff Sullivan in And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave (1972)

Craig Hill as Jeff Sullivan with Pancho Corrales (Fernando Sancho) as his prisoner in And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave (1972)

Maria Pia Conte as Susan, mourning her father after he was shot down by Corrales’ men in And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave (1972)

Angel Aranda as Dan Barker, being punished by the prison guards in And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave (1972)

Craig Hill as Jeff Sullivan, catching up with escaped prisoner Dan Barker again in And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave (1972)