I have been trying to find the name of this movie for a long time. I saw it as a kid back in the early 80s. I think the movie might be from the 70s. It is a western based movie with a group of men (robber type) who are crossing a mountain forest in search of gold. They meet a skinny blonde girl who rarely speaks and joins them in the climb. Soon one by one people start dying. They are all shot by an arrow. Since no one has any bow and arrow it creates a mystery and distrust in the group. The bow and arrow is actually dropped off by the girl’s pet eagle when she signals it. Finally only the boss and the girl is left and during a rape attempt she manages to stick a knife into him. She finally empties all the gold and dumps them into a cavern. It seems she was a protector of the treasure of the mountain. If anyone has seen this movie please let me know the title as I badly want to see it again. Thanks.
“Treasure of Matecumbe”(1976) Disney movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075347/
You can watch a clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knfsxBLPP40
“Shadow of Chikara”(1977)?
Did it have a horror/western vibe to it? You can watch the entire movie on Youtube, but here is the IMDB link.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078240/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
That must be it. That can’t be a Disney from that description! I was trying to find that.
When the OP said they ‘watched it as a kid’ I just assumed that it probably wasn’t a horror movie!
I actually solved another post looking for this one, it’s very obscure and hard to find. It is also known under 7(!) other titles!
YouTube won’t let you watch the entire movie anymore as Shadow of Chikara. They just have download links. But the movie is there in a so-so print under the title, Curse of Demon Mountain. I went to the ending and that is it. When I went to Livinghead’s IMDb link and saw Sondra Locke’s name, I was thinking skinny blonde, that fits. Looks like an interesting movie, but now I know how it ends so it is all spoiled for me.
Sorry about that will, people should also know that there is animal cruelty in a scene which involves live horses apparently going over a cliff.