John

John "Bud" Cardos

Born: December 20, 1929
Died: March 4, 2021
in St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Movies for John "Bud" Cardos...

Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
Title: Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
Released: August 23, 2019
Type: Movie
Brought to life through archival material and the reflections of over 40 colleagues, friends and fans, BLOOD & FLESH is much more than the story of a moviemaking life most unusual. It beautifully captures the worlds of outsider filmmaker communities that existed in California in the ’70s, and the weird ways they intersected with Hollywood mainstream and union indies. On Adamson shoots, regular Orson Welles crew and cinematographers like Gary Graver, Vilmos Szigmond and Lazlo Kovaks worked alongside Bud Cardos — and at one point, Charles Manson! Director David Gregory (founder of Severin Films, director of LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY’S ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU) spent years making this film, speaking to everyone down to the cops who investigated Adamson’s murder, vividly encapsulating both a bold life and tragic demise, with alien conspiracies, go-go dancers and Colonel Sanders coming in along the way. If you’ve got even a passing interest in cinema, you want to see this
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Love and Other Stunts
Title: Love and Other Stunts
Released: April 6, 2018
Type: Movie
Gary Kent was the king of B movies in the Sixties and Seventies, working for indie directors from Richard Rush to Ray Dennis Stickler to Al Adamson, but he's tackled even larger real-life challenges.
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Death Dimension
Title: Death Dimension
Character: Driver Henchman (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1978
Type: Movie
The Pig has a plan to eradicate some people with a freeze bomb that instantly freezes people to death. It is up to Detective Ash to stop him and protect the woman with the secret to the ice bomb embedded in a microdot under the skin of her forehead.
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Breaking Point
Title: Breaking Point
Character: Fleming
Released: June 2, 1976
Type: Movie
The Mafia tries to take revenge against a man who testified against them in court.
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The Female Bunch
Title: The Female Bunch
Character: Mexican Farmer (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1971
Type: Movie
An all-female gang living on a ranch gets involved with a pair of bikers.
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Hell's Bloody Devils
Title: Hell's Bloody Devils
Character: Bloody Devil
Released: May 28, 1970
Type: Movie
Bikers, Nazis, Mafiosi, and the FBI all clash in this wild and wooly exploitation picture from director Al Adamson. Mark Adams (John Gabriel) is an FBI agent who has been assigned to infiltrate an organized crime ring that has obtained a set of printing plates that will allow them to produce nearly perfect counterfeit 20-dollar bills. The plates were made in Germany during World War II, and were discovered by a radical right-wing group hoping to restore the Nazi Party to power. The American gangsters are in cahoots with a group of wealthy American neo-Nazis sympathetic to the new German cause, led by fugitive war criminal Count von Delberg (Kent Taylor); the count has in turn recruited a vicious motorcycle gang, the Bloody Devils, to do his dirty work.
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Rebel Rousers
Title: Rebel Rousers
Character: Townspeople
Released: April 1, 1970
Type: Movie
In a small, US costal town with many Spanish speakers, a motorcycle gang arrives on holiday. Also in town to try to reconnect with his pregnant girlfriend, Karen, is businessman Paul Collier. Paul and a leader of the cyclists, J.J., knew each other years before, so when the gang comes upon the couple and, led by the menacing Bunny, beats up Paul and begins a sexual assault of Karen, J.J. tries to intervene: he suggests they hold cycle-riding contests, with the winner claiming Karen (he promises, sotto voce, to set her free if he wins). After the contests commence, Paul crawls away to look for help. He meets with a shrug from a cowardly sheriff's deputy; where can he turn?
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Horror of the Blood Monsters
Title: Horror of the Blood Monsters
Character: Vampire Caveman (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Astronauts land on a planet with prehistoric creatures and a war between a human-like tribe and a race of vampires.
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Five Bloody Graves
Title: Five Bloody Graves
Character: Joe Lightfoot / Setago
Released: October 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A lone gunman hunts the fearsome Apache Satago across the plains of the Wild West. When Satago's marauders ambush a stagecoach, the gunman rides to the rescue of the trapped passengers and helps them in their last stand against the deadly Indians.
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Blood of Dracula's Castle
Title: Blood of Dracula's Castle
Character: Prison Guard
Released: October 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Count Dracula and his wife capture beautiful young women and chain them in their dungeon, to be used when they need to satisfy their thirst for blood.
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Satan's Sadists
Title: Satan's Sadists
Character: Firewater
Released: June 1, 1969
Type: Movie
The "Satans" are a very cruel biker gang led by Anchor. The gang goes to a diner in the middle of nowhere in the California desert where they begin to terrorize Lew and his patrons and his waitress, Tracy. After a little killing, one of the patrons named Johnny manages to escape from the bikers into the desert. They need to reach a town before the Satans catch up to them and kill them.
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Nightmare in Wax
Title: Nightmare in Wax
Character: Det. Sgt. Bud Carver
Released: May 14, 1969
Type: Movie
The disfigured curator of a wax museum murders his enemies and then uses their bodies as exhibits in his museum.
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The Las Vegas Strangler
Title: The Las Vegas Strangler
Character: Joe
Released: March 15, 1968
Type: Movie
Previously lost proto-slasher that chronicles the life of murderous psychotic, Jeff Murray, whose perverted mother obsession leads him on a blood-soaked rampage across the glitter of Sin City.
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The Road Hustlers
Title: The Road Hustlers
Character: Chandler
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A family of bootleggers fight against the sheriff and local gangsters.
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Hells Angels on Wheels
Title: Hells Angels on Wheels
Released: June 1, 1967
Type: Movie
At first gas station attendant Poet is happy when the rockers gang “Hell’s Angels” finally accepts him. But he’s shocked when he learns how brutal they are – not even murder is a taboo to them. He gets himself in trouble when the leader’s girlfriend falls in love with him – and he welcomes her approaches.
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Deadwood '76
Title: Deadwood '76
Character: Hawk Russell
Released: June 30, 1965
Type: Movie
A young drifter is mistaken for Billy the Kid. The concequences prove deadly.
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Celluloid Wizards in the Video Wasteland: The Saga of Empire Pictures
Title: Celluloid Wizards in the Video Wasteland: The Saga of Empire Pictures
Character: Himself
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The official feature-length documentary about the rise and fall of Charles Band's legendary Empire Pictures studio.