Bury Me an Angel

1971

Action / Drama

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 27% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 27% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.1/10 10 398 398

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Plot summary

After a stranger murders her brother, Dag sets out on the road to avenge his murder, toting a shotgun and leaving any restraint behind.

Director

Barbara Peeters Photo
Barbara Peeters

Top cast

Joan Gerber Photo
Joan Gerber as Op
Richard Compton Photo
Richard Compton as Pool Player
Dan Haggerty Photo
Dan Haggerty as Ken
Alan DeWitt Photo
Alan DeWitt as Principal Armstrong
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1 hr 25 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mdstudio-75425 5 / 10

Bury Me A Brief Career

It is interesting to note that the three main actors in this movie - Dixie Peabody, Terry Mace and Clyde Ventura - all seemed to have vanished from sight proximal to starring in this film, with each of them only making a handful of movies combined in a short time frame. While they weren't the best actors ever to grace the screen, they did approach their roles with a certain verve and raw energy that helped offset some of the occasionally overall amateurish production values. The recent success of " Easy Rider " had a profound influence on much of the visual context of this film, as the three bikers similarly wend their way through western landscapes backed by a rock soundtrack. However, the attempt to capture and recreate the magic of that classic film falls short in comparison, lacking both the brilliant cinematography of Laszlo Kovacs, as well as the backing score provided by some of the best contemporary music created in that era. Instead, we get a fairly mediocre and generic sonic collection that could have been supplied by any halfway decent bar band, while the cinematography here remains relatively strong, with its vivid color and solid compositional components as envisioned by Sven Walnum. The movie as directed by Barbara Peeters is a valiant effort to enter the male dominated biker genre by positing a powerful female lead, bent on vindication, and unintimidated by the traditionally masculine world of biker gangs, even if the overall directorial effort can be considered dilletantish at best. Dixie Peabody is a first rate choice for her role, considering her imposing stature and modelesque beauty. Why she faded from view is anybody's guess, considering her potential as a strong female protagonist that seemed poised for some amount of fame, even if only limited to modest success as a character actress. " Bury Me An Angel " probably deserves to be unearthed for a viewing, notwithstanding its shortcomings.
Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 6 / 10

Really good

Barbara Peeters, who would go on to direct Summer School Teachers, Starhops and Humanoids from the Deep, came up with the idea for this movie while working as a script supervisor on Angels Die Hard. Once actress Rita Murray told her she was looking to produce, Peeters pitched and wrote this film in days. This would make Peeters the first female biker film director.The six foot tall Dixie Peabody had been in Angels Die Hard in a small part and wouldn't make many movies past this starring role (she's also in Night Call Nurses and was a production assistant on Peeters' Summer School Teachers). She plays Dag, who isn't just a girl riding the back of the bike, but instead someone who rides for revenge on her own cycle.As the film begins, we see her brother Dennis (Dixie's real-life-brother Dan) get shot in the fact with a shotgun blast by a stranger (Stephen Whittaker), an event we see replayed in Dag's head throughout the film. She grabs Jonsie (Terry Mace), Bernie (Clyde Ventura) and a gun of her own and they all head out north to kill that man, a fact lamented by her mother who realizes there's no way she can stop her daughter. Maybe no one can.Yet this isn't the expected revenge film. The trio meet a witch in the desert who reveals to Dag that the revenge isn't going to take away her grief and pain. An encounter with a hippie art teacher (Dan Haggerty) that turns into a red lit lovemaking scene which causes Dag to run rather than face up to the emotions she's running from shows that our heroine maybe has some demons of her own. This is confirmed by the drug trip flashback she has and the ending, which drops some gasoline on the fire of this film and confirms the real reason why Dag's brother's death destroyed her.Top it all off with some great songs by East-West Pipeline - their "Let It Be" isn't The Beatles' song but it's super hot - and this film stands out from the rest of the biker pack. I wonder why Dixie Peabody didn't do more, because she had the charisma to be somebody big and by that, I mean she'd be the villain torturing Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith or Claudia Jennings in some dank prison somewhere in the jungle, which I see as making it big.
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