Ever wonder what a Soviet made action film was like?
This is “Solo Voyage” also known as “The Detached Mission”. And it is the Russian response to jingoistic cinema like “Rambo” or “Red Dawn”? This is that film
This movie is about an American treasure hunter named Jack Harrison who joins forces with a team of Soviet Marines ( or Naval Infantry) in order to thwart a plot by the CIA and military industrialists who plan to launch a nuclear missile to frame the Soviets and disrupt a disarmament summit… and maybe even start World War III! But Harrison, Major Shatokin, and a brave team Soviet troops are determined to stop this conspiracy of the elite and save the world from nuclear war!
Sound familiar? Its just, you are more used to having the Russian and American roles reversed.
“Wolf and Calf”
A stop-motion animated film from the Soviet Union. Directed by M. Kamenetsky.
A wolf raises a calf for food. A bear, a vixen and a boar want to eat him too!
“Zombi 2”
as known as “Zombie” in the US and “Zombie Flesh Eaters” in the UK.
I saw this when I was five and that is my excuse when people ask what the hell is wrong with you?“
That poster bastard haunted my nightmares for years! I love him.
“Ilsa Meets Bruce Lee In The Devil’s Triangle”!
A movie that never was. But really should have!
This was a movie that was planned to star Dyanne Thorne and Bruce Li, and would have been part of the Bruceploitation cycle of the 70s. According to Dyanne Thorne’s commentary on the Ilsa box set DVDs, the film was set to go with he and Li signed to it but then it just fell apart due to problems with the producers. Otherwise it would have made for one of the all time great grindhouse exploitation films of all time! I guess the Kung Fu thrills of “Enter the Dragon” with the sex and violence of the Ilsa series, and the intrigue of both! I could easily see Ilsa working for Han.
Screen shots from the infamous ice cream scene from “Assault on Precinct 13”. A little girl realizes that she has the wrong flavor of ice cream. She comes back to see Frank Doubleday as the “White Warlord” in the middle of brutalizing the ice cream man. He simple, coldly aims and fires a suppressed Mauser C-96 pistol through her ice cream cone and into her chest. He then returns to finishing off the ice cream man. This scene helped “Assault on Precinct 13” get an “X” rating for violence.
The soundtrack to Lucio Fulci’s “Manhattan Baby” by Fabio Frizzi.
I have been listening to it a lot lately. It is very calming, yet it also sounds ominous. The film itself is about a girl would becomes demonically possessed when her Egyptologist father gives her an Ancient Egyptian necklace.
