
$10,000 for a Massacre
1967

Representation Score
Minimal
1968
Director
Umberto Lenzi
Runtime
81 minutes
Average Rating
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A Gun for One Hundred Graves is a quintessential Spaghetti Western that prioritizes traditional masculine roles and genre-standard social hierarchies. The narrative focuses on a cycle of revenge and frontier lawlessness, offering little room for diverse perspectives. The film adheres to the era's conventional gender and racial norms, centering on white male protagonists. While it introduces moral ambiguity through a preacher with a personal agenda, it remains rooted in established genre clichés.
Category Breakdown
The film does not include any characters with LGBTQ+ identities or same-sex intimacy. It focuses on masculine archetypes of violence and retribution within a rigid frontier framework.
Female characters play secondary, stereotypical roles such as saloon girls or victims. The plot is driven by male-dominated power dynamics and the central conflict between the protagonist and outlaws.
The casting reflects typical Spaghetti Western clichés, featuring predominantly white protagonists and antagonists. The narrative emphasizes a homogeneous racial landscape centered on specific white factions.
The film explores frontier justice through a morally ambiguous preacher. However, the story remains centered on individualistic revenge and property ownership rather than broader systemic critiques.
There is no evidence of characters with visible or invisible disabilities. Disability is not used as a central theme or character-driven element in this narrative.
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Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
At the end of the Civil War, Jim Slade, a young confederate soldier and conscientious objector, returns to his ranch to find his parents murdered and the ranch practically destroyed. He finds and kills three of the murderers and learns the name of the fourth, a certain Corbett. Finally he discovers Corbett as the leader of a gang that has plans to rob a local bank and is invited to help defend the town from the bandits. Teaming with a preacher, who has an agenda of his own, the two take a stand against Corbett.

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