Lewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast is unusually good including Lee Van Cleef, Brett Halsey (Cop Game), Romano Puppo (Robowar), Mike Monty (Raiders of Atlantis), Bobby Rhodes (The Great Alligator), etc. Anyway, Van Cleef has Collins go on some random mission to locate a disc with all sorts of valuable crazy intelligence data on it. It just happens that Donald Pleasence, a random government official, hires another mercenary-for-hire Manfred Lehman to tag along and make sure the data ends up in the right hands. Van Cleef isn't taking any chances, and since he is crooked and murders Collins's other bosses quickly, he places Romano Puppo in the group as well to make sure the operation runs smoothly. Collins may not be too expressive but at least he seems to figure out quickly who's out to get him, so the mission continues with lots of double-crosses, twists and turns, and of course lots of explosions!
Practical Effects
Absurd volume of real explosions for the budget.
Acting
Pleasence and Van Cleef treating nonsense like Shakespeare.
Direction
Margheriti's efficient chaos-machine craftsmanship.
Director
Antonio Margheriti
Lewis Collins
Major Colby
Lee Van Cleef
Col. Mazzarini
Donald Pleasence
Henry Carlson
Brett Halsey
McPherson
Manfred Lehmann
Mason / Hiccock
Bobby Rhodes
Kongo Klaus
John Steiner
Duclaud
Romano Puppo
Angelo
Thomas Danneberg
Gustafson
Christian Brückner
Frank Williams
Frank Glaubrecht
Lennox
Anita Lochner
Mrs. Mason
Paul Müller
Carbalo
Antonio Cantafora
Nick De Carlo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Antonio Margheriti shot this back-to-back with 'Codename: Wildgeese' using the same jungle sets and several cast members.
This epitomizes the 'Eurocine' boom—Italian genre directors recycling American action tropes with fading Hollywood stars for the global VHS market.
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