Blind Rage (1978)

Five friends get together and decide to plan an operation to rob a bank. The main difference between this and other bank-robbing gangs, however, is that all five men are blind.

Director:

Efren C. Piñon

Writers:

Leo Fong (screenplay), Efren C. Piñon (story),

Stars:

Fred Williamson, Tony Ferrer, Leila Hermosa

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Fred Williamson	...	Jesse Crowder
Tony Ferrer	...	Ben Guevara
Leila Hermosa	...	Sally
D'Urville Martin	...	Willie Black
Dick Adair	...	Anderson
Darnell Garcia	...	Hector Lopez
Leo Fong	...	Lin Wang
Charlie Davao	...	Johnny Duran
Carlos Padilla Jr.	...	Capt. Reyes
Subas Herrero	...	Chief Rodriguez
Chuck Doherty	...	Jim Metcalf
B.T. Anderson	...	Lew Simpson
José García
Fred Param
Ben Dato	...	(as Ben Datu)

Storyline

The Americans are planning to send five million dollars to Southeast Asia for relief work. They plan to send it to a bank in Manila and the President of the bank goes to the U.S. to work out the details. He is later approached by someone who wants him to steal the money and turn it over to them. He learns that they want him to use 4 blind men to get the money. So he recruits them and brings them to Manila and recruits a woman who teaches the blind to train them. Eventually they recruit a local bank robber who is also blind to help them.

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Plot Keywords:

blind | multicultural | criminal | heist | blaxploitation | 

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Taglines:

They're Kings of Kung Fu. Master Thieves ... And BLIND!

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Genres:

Action | Comedy

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

Philippines

Language:

English

Release Date:

April 1978 (USA)

Also Known As:

Fureur aveugle

Filming Locations:

Hong Kong, China

Company Credits

Production Co:

Metropolitan Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The script for this movie was written in about three or four days.

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Quotes

Agent: It's all going down right now at The International House of Pancakes!

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Connections

Follows Death Journey (1976)

User Reviews

Silliest Caper of All Time?

With no production values whatsoever, and a plot that sounds like the start of a bad joke, this absurd thriller has to be one of the dumbest flicks of the 70s, the "Dumb Decade"! I mean, come on: Five guys rob a bank? Never happen! We spend a good third of the film watching painfully as our culturally diverse gaggle of vision-impaired desperadoes trip over each other in myriad practice runs in a mock-up bank, while a cute Asian "trainer" says, "Very good, very good!" a lot. Whew! The dub job is hilariously stilted. Poor Leo Fong; he could have been another Jackie Chan, or at least another Sonny Chiba, but not with flicks like these! Just to slap you awake, Special Agent Jesse Crowder (the amazing Fred Williamson) pops up in the last ten minutes, replete with trademark open shirt and skinny cigar, to squash the silliest caper of all time. This is absolute rock-bottom gold.