Verdict
Summary
This isn’t an action adventure western, but one (known not so affectionately as a “rape western”) in which its intended audience must’ve been absolutely blood crazed and misogynistic to get their kicks with something such as this.
Plot:
A gang kidnaps women who have no hope of being rescued.
Review:
A Confederate platoon gone rogue is led by a cutthroat ruffian called Quantrill, and his main order of business is to have his gang slaughter any men on the trail and to take their women to inter them in a whorehouse that offers women gratis to his gang. But most of the women his gang snatch never quite make it to the brothel because his men are overeager scumbags who take their pleasure with the girls and kill them after the dirty deed. One such woman does eventually make it all the way to the rowdy house of disrepute – a gambling den and place of iniquity – and she prays that someone will rescue her. A cowboy (names aren’t really important in this movie) infiltrates Quantrill’s gang and eventually does free some enslaved women, but not before dozens of other unfortunate gals are raped, degraded, and murdered.
From prolific bottom-rung filmmaker Oliver Drake, whose film credits stretched all the way back into the late 1920’s for “oater” westerns and exploitation movies and came to a crest in the late 1960s with borderline-porn (called “roughies”) flicks with very minimal plots and tons of sex, rape, and nudity. Ride a Wild Stud is almost wall-to-wall simulated rape, sexual assault, and nonconsensual sex, and even when the stripped naked women try to fool their rapists into being docile, they get strangled or shot to death afterwards. It was around this era when the literary market began producing what is known as “adult westerns,” which were fairly hardcore pornographic action-western novels, serialized from dozens to hundreds of volumes with titles such as Longarm, Lone Star, Bolt, Easy Company, Buckskin, White Squaw, Headhunter, and dozens of other series, all of which were marketed to truck drivers and hyper masculine male readers who didn’t mind page after page of sex and bloodshed, but the adult western in celluloid was less common, and Ride a Wild Stud is about “adult” as you’ll ever find, but it has absolutely no redeeming qualities because there’s virtually no plot, no protagonist that you care about, and the nameless female characters who are featured in the film are all systematically raped and murdered, with no purpose other than to simply “show” it. This isn’t an action adventure western, but one (known not so affectionately as a “rape western”) in which its intended audience must’ve been absolutely blood crazed and misogynistic to get their kicks with something such as this.
Dark Force Entertainment presents Ride a Wild Stud in high definition on Blu-ray, and it looks about as fine and acceptable as it has likely ever looked on home video, presented in a full-frame image, from the only existing 35mm print. There are no special features included.
