WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Hell’s Bloody Devils (1970)

It just makes sense that the Third Reich would regroup in Las Vegas, I guess. FBI agent Mark Adams (John Gabriel) poses as a member of a Sin City organized crime gang to get into the world of war criminal Count von Delberg (Kent Taylor) and stop him from his plan to counterfeit U.S. dollars. He’s helped by Israeli agent Carol Bechtal (Vicki Volante), whose parents were killed by von Delberg during the war. But the Count hasn’t slowed down or gotten with the times. He’s working with the Bloody Devils, a motorcycle gang, to carry out his plans.

This started as a spy movie called Operation M, then became The Fakers, and a few years later, bikers — real bikers, the kind that get busted for weapons charges during filming — joined the cast.

You know who else is in there? Colonel Sanders. He’s in one of his KFC restaurants. The Colonel had sold the restaurants in 1964 but retained ownership of the Canadian stores and served as a brand ambassador, even as he began to despise the way the new owners made his chicken cheaper and less to his taste. In 1975, he said, “My God, that gravy is horrible. They buy tap water for 15 to 20 cents a thousand gallons, then mix it with flour and starch to make pure wallpaper paste. And I know wallpaper paste, by God, because I’ve seen my mother make it. There’s no nutrition in it, and they ought not to be allowed to sell it. Their fried chicken recipe is nothing in the world but a damn fried doughball stuck on some chicken.” KFC has paid for product placement in this movie, which may seem strange, but the Colonel also shows up — as does his chicken — in some Herschell Gordon Lewis movies. The Godfather of Gore used to serve up the original recipe as his craft service. The Colonel is also in Blast-Off GirlsThe Big Mouth and The Phynx.

John Carradine plays a pet shop owner. That’s enough to make me watch.

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