Character Relationship Map: Five Bloody Graves

Characters

• Ben Thompson (played by Robert Dix) — protagonist
• Jim Wade (played by Scott Brady) — supporting
• Clay Bates (played by Jim Davis) — supporting
• Boone Hawkins (played by John Carradine) — supporting
• Joe Lightfoot / Setago (played by John "Bud" Cardos) — supporting
• Horace Wiggins (played by Ray Young) — supporting
• Nora Miller (played by Vicki Volante) — supporting
• Althea Richards (played by Darlene Lucht) — supporting
• Dave Miller (played by Ken Osborne) — supporting
• The Voice of Death (played by Gene Raymond) — minor
• Lavinia Wade (played by Julie Edwards) — minor

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Nora Miller → Dave Miller (Family Spouses)

  The plot places Nora and Dave together at their isolated home and explicitly refers to them as a couple.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Boone Hawkins → The Voice of Death (Narrative Moral Counterpoint)

  The Voice concludes that each man reaches his appointed moment of dying, while Boone's supposed religious identity is exposed as connected to a darker...

• The Voice of Death → Ben Thompson (Narrative Observer)

  The Voice of Death describes Ben as a peace officer who survives through deadly skill and rides with hatred in his heart.

• Clay Bates → Horace Wiggins (Conflict Attacker)

  The plot states that Clay attacks Horace Wiggins during the group's night of crisis.

• Joe Lightfoot / Setago → Horace Wiggins (Conflict Personal Enemy)

  Joe intervenes when Wiggins threatens the group and reveals that Wiggins is the man who killed his wife.

• Boone Hawkins → Horace Wiggins (Conflict Shooter)

  During the confrontation, Boone shoots Wiggins after Wiggins threatens the women and attempts to take the group's rifles.

• Ben Thompson → Althea Richards (Alliance Traveling Protector)

  Althea is among the travelers whose horses were taken or killed, and Ben helps the group continue toward Tombstone.

• Ben Thompson → Lavinia Wade (Alliance Traveling Protector)

  Ben helps the group containing Lavinia continue toward Tombstone by using an old mining trail to evade pursuit.

• Ben Thompson → Dave Miller (Conflict Warning Adversary)

  Ben warns Dave and Nora that the countryside is being ravaged, but Dave refuses to leave his traps and dismisses the danger.

• Ben Thompson → Nora Miller (Alliance Protector)

  After hearing about Nora's survival of an attack, Ben warns the Millers about the danger and urges Nora to travel toward town.

• Ben Thompson → Jim Wade (Alliance Combat Partner)

  Ben helps Jim's traveling group reach Tombstone, and the plot states that Jim and Ben fight side by side.

• Ben Thompson → Joe Lightfoot / Setago (Alliance Uneasy Ally)

  Ben is tracking Joe, but encounters him on the trail and joins him uneasily as both men move toward a violent reckoning.

Story Analysis

A haunted peace officer crosses a violent frontier where pursuit, survival, vengeance, and fatalism converge.

Plot Progression

1. A Peace Officer Returns
2. Warnings At Miller Home
3. Flight Toward Tombstone
4. Violence Within The Group
5. The Appointed Moment