"In 1957 The People of North Carolina Feared Two Things...The Mountain Chain Gang And A Man Named Seabo."
If that doesn't work for you, how about "First there was Cool Hand Luke then Billy Jack, but there has never been anyone like Seabo."
Earl Owensby had already made four movies - Challenge, The Brass Rings, Dark Sunday and Death Driver - before making this, a movie he'd pretty much remake six years later with Chain Gang.
Starring in this and producing it, Owensby knew the kind of movies that people in Southern drive-ins wanted to see because he was one of them. His E. O. Studios was run smartly: he'd star in these movies, they'd hire local semi-pro actors and shoot most of the movies off the soundstages.
Seabo (Owensby) - get used to that name - is a half-Native American, half-white bounty hunter who is set up for a murder he didn't commit and faces off with prison guard Jimbo (Ed Parker). He eventually gets freed if he hunts down some escaped prisoners and joins forces with another bounty hunter named Red (David Allan Coe, who also recorded some of the songs on the soundtrack including one song, "Bounty Hunter," that sounds a lot like "A Boy Named Sue").
This movie feels made to order for what people were looking for at a drive-in with Owensby as a star that doesn't look all that much different from the people sitting in the cars drinking beer and flashing their headlights at the screen.
If that doesn't work for you, how about "First there was Cool Hand Luke then Billy Jack, but there has never been anyone like Seabo."
Earl Owensby had already made four movies - Challenge, The Brass Rings, Dark Sunday and Death Driver - before making this, a movie he'd pretty much remake six years later with Chain Gang.
Starring in this and producing it, Owensby knew the kind of movies that people in Southern drive-ins wanted to see because he was one of them. His E. O. Studios was run smartly: he'd star in these movies, they'd hire local semi-pro actors and shoot most of the movies off the soundstages.
Seabo (Owensby) - get used to that name - is a half-Native American, half-white bounty hunter who is set up for a murder he didn't commit and faces off with prison guard Jimbo (Ed Parker). He eventually gets freed if he hunts down some escaped prisoners and joins forces with another bounty hunter named Red (David Allan Coe, who also recorded some of the songs on the soundtrack including one song, "Bounty Hunter," that sounds a lot like "A Boy Named Sue").
This movie feels made to order for what people were looking for at a drive-in with Owensby as a star that doesn't look all that much different from the people sitting in the cars drinking beer and flashing their headlights at the screen.