White Justice (1972)

Hagen Smith is Brad Stewart, a Virginian who wound up fighting for the North during the Civil War.

Now he’s headed West, hoping to find work in Texas, and the trip starts out well enough.

He beds a mountain man’s much younger, adventure-seeking wife (Eve York as Lindy); then hops aboard a train bound for somewhere in the West.

But he winds up sharing a train car with two Rebels intent on stringing him up.

And, when he escapes them, there’s a band of escaped African cannibals with which to deal and a slave woman (Ricki Richardson) in need of help.

Review:

The film features a surprise ending, but it doesn’t answer the real question: Why was this mess ever put on film?

The mood alternates between backwoods humor and thriller-suspense and neither is handled with any skill.

The only scene you’ll likely remember is that mating of Stewart and the mountain man’s wife while chickens watch from their roost on the bottom of the bed.

Somehow, John Mitchum — Robert’s younger brother — got involved in this mess. He plays one of the Rebel soldiers in the train car.

Director:
Richard Robinson

Cast:
Hagen Smith … Brad Stewart
Paul Harper … Jim
Rance Howard … Jake
John Mitchum … Hoss
Ricki Richardson … Miriam
Eve York … Lindy

aka: Bloody Trail

Runtime: 91 min.

Memorable lines:

Brad: “I’m looking for some work.”
Jim: “We do our own work around here, stranger.”

Lindy, Jim wife: “You can take your shirt off, if you want to.”

Lindy, Jim’s wife: “Sometimes I feel like the world is going round and round and I’m just standing still. Just like I’m livin’ every day until I die and, maybe, maybe there’s something right over the next hill that I’ll never even see.”

Jim, taking a swig of moonshine: “Oh, boy, that’ll chase the flies off you.”
Sam, his drinking partner: “Makes my pecker tingle.”