EDITOR’S NOTE: Over the next several days, I’ll be covering movies either directed by Menahem Golan or produced by Golan and Globus before they bought Cannon.

Golan and Globus also produced a Western, God’s Gun, starring Leif Garrett and Lee Van Cleef in which Garrett was mentored by Cleef. The producers paid Garrett to stay in Israel for two months until filming began on that movie, which was released before this.

Kid Vengeance stars both of them but in totally different roles, as Garrett is Tom, who watched Van Cleef’s McClain murder most of his immediate family, getting gang member Jesus (John Marley) to shoot dad (David Loden), before he rapes and murders mom (Dalia Penn) and kidnaps sister Lisa (Glynnis O’Connor). Once he comes out of hiding, Tom makes his way across the plains and like some tween slasher antagonist, he kills them all off, one by one, by arrow, by scorpion, by snake, bye bye.

Instead of Gianfranco Parolini, this was directed by Joseph Manduke, who made the TV movie Beatlemania and Omega Syndrome. It was written by Ken Globus, who also wrote the Golan/Globus movies Operation Thunderbolt and Lupo! and was on second unit for their films The Highway Queen, The Passover Plot and Kazablan. He was joined by writers Bud Robbins and James Telfer.

Isaac (Jim Brown) helps Tom learn how to be a man, but if you’re hoping for a Jim Brown heroic role, this isn’t it. This is not a sequel to Take a Hard Ride, despite what you may have heard. Maybe watch that instead.

You can watch this on Tubi.