Director Lee Frost, who did the equally crummy Black Gestapo (although that, featuring the actor who played Mac on Night Court, is somewhat more entertaining than this.) Featuring a weak, insulting story line, with lackluster direction and cinematography, the only 'actor' in the entire cast I've ever head of was Uschi Digard who, as with all her roles, gets naked. Most of this lame film is filled with racial comments (It is about a group of renegade confederates who don't know the war is over), rape, abuse of women and blacks and a less than action packed finale with some of the dumbest fights ever put on cinema. This is a failed American attempt at a spaghetti western. Just a weak, useless film with a budget so low, one has to lift the rug to find it. Just a poor excuse for a movie.

For 1969, I am sure this movie was as progressive as the era could put out then and yet now, it's surely as offensive as any other triggering word that is lambasted among the platforms. This is definitely an exploitation film that probably achieved what it meant to. The war machine still lives on beyond color, creed, and status, so the movie had a couple good points about the desire for war, rapine, and loot, that transcends eras without a hitch. This probably has a cult following and may even be used in academia as a gospel of the Civil War and slavery, but in 2024, truth isn't as entertaining as drama.

When I sat down to watch the 1969 movie "The Scavengers" here in 2024, it was actually my first time to ever watch it. Yeah, I had never even heard about the movie, so I wasn't sure what I was in for here. And in a sense, then writer Bob Cresse and director Lee Frost had every opportunity to entertain and impress me.

The storyline is a slow starter, and about the first one-third of the movie felt like little more than an opportunity for writer Bob Cresse and director Lee Frost to show off a lot of nudity and lewd scenes. Yup, there was't a whole lot of intellectual entertainment going on here. Then the movie picks up a bit and becomes watchable, but not outstanding or particularly memorable.

Of course I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. But I will say that the acting performances in the movie were fair.

The blood in the movie was very fake and insanely unnaturally red, and that just didn't really work in favor of the overall impression of the movie.

"The Scavengers" was not a good movie in any way. And it is definitely not a movie that I will be returning to watch a second time. Just checking it off the watched-movies-list and moving on.

My rating of "The Scavengers" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.