Funeral for an Assassin (1977)

User Rating:

3.8/10   

Director:

Ivan Hall

Writer:

Walter Brough (writer)

Release Date:

February 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot Keywords:

Police Chase | Revenge Murder | Independent Film

Cast

Vic Morrow	...	Michael Cardiff
Peter Van Dissel	...	Capt. Evered Roos
Gaby Getz	...	Julia Ivens
Sam Williams	...	Umzinga
Stuart Parker	...	Commander Overbeek
Gillian Garlick	...	Nurse Schoenfeld
Siegfried Mynhardt	...	Judge William Whitfield
Norman Coombes	...	Fourie
Chris Bezuidenhout	...	Karl Yates
Albert Raphael	...	Claude Ormsby
Bruce Anderson	...	Prime Minister
Henry Vaughn	...	Reverend Martin Hemsley
Gwynne Davies	...	Magdalena Stewart
Nimrod Motchabane	...	Black Policeman
John Boulter	...	Surgeon

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

USA | South Africa

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:12 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

South Africa

Company:

FOAA Productions

Wow! But Not In A Good Way

This is one of those movies that you won't see on TV in most countries anymore, it could have been an average late night time filler. Reasonably well made c-grade stuff (but dated looking) with some good actors, but the one thing that it contains that will have you looking twice is the Star Vic Morrow "blacking up" more than once in the movie to pass as a local and apparently getting away with it (with the actors on screen at least). The film itself is a bit overlong and not really anything special, and something you will find on lots of those budget 50 or 100 "movie packs" on DVD. I wouldn't advise you looking for it as its far more 'talky' than action, like a strange episode of a 70's cop show thats more than double the length it should be but with no extra budget or script. Im waffling on now just to fill the space required for reviews here, but let me finish by saying this is a strange curiosity from a bygone age.