Angels' Brigade (1979)

Director:

Greydon Clark

Writers:

Greydon Clark (writer)
Alvin L. Fast (writer)

Release Date:

February 1979 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy

Tagline:

Seven super sexy girls take on the bad guys in an explosion of wild action, crazy stunts, and loads of laughs!

Plot:

Six sexy women, and a teenage girl, devastate a right-wing militia before doing battle with ruthless drug pushers.

Plot Keywords:

Drug Dealer | MST3K | Vigilante | Neo Nazi | Beautiful Woman

Cast

Sylvia Anderson	...	Terry Grant
Lieu Chinh	...	Kako Umaro
Jacqueline Cole	...	April Thomas (as Jacqulin Cole)
Liza Greer	...	Trish
Robin Greer	...	Policewoman Elaine Brenner
Susan Kiger	...	Michelle Wilson
Noela Velasco	...	Maria
Jack Palance	...	Mike Farrell
Peter Lawford	...	Burke
Jim Backus	...	Cmdr. Lindsey March
Neville Brand	...	Miller
Pat Buttram	...	Van Salesman
Arthur Godfrey	...	Himself
Alan Hale Jr.	...	Manny (as Alan Hale)
Darby Hinton	...	Sticks

Also Known As:

Angels Revenge
Seven from Heaven

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:PG | Iceland:L | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Arista Films

Trivia:

Director Cameo: [Greydon Clark]as a movie director in the sequence involving the stunt motorcyclist.

Goofs:

Continuity: The radio announces "Operating on an anonymous tip, police discovered eight men bound and gagged on the beach today." At least seven men came ashore, and two were already subdued, so there should have been at least nine.

Quotes:

April: Women can make a difference!

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Angels' Revenge (#7.22)" (1995)

horrible thing to view but very funny mst3k!!!!

this movie might almost be unwatchable had it not been on MST3K. the movie is soo bad that it's good.

now let's run the numbers with the things wrong:

1) Story: bad, horrible, lack-there-of, lame. take your pick. This movie's story really never takes the time to play itself out, it really consists of one, long flashback told by one of the lead characters, and boy is it a long flashback. Maybe one of the longest in film history! We get a little something about six semi-hot women(well hot for the 70's) who are fed up with drugs being pushed to kids and decide to do something about it. What do they do? They decide they are going to blow up one small drug producing building and that is the end of drugs everywhere. Sadly this movie fails to grasp the concept that there is more then one building to destroy, but they only destroy the one and that's it. as crow says it "So they just destroyed all the drugs in the world?" Which pretty much sums up all their actions in a nutshell.

2) the acting is not so up to par. No one really turns in a decent roll in the movie, except Jack Pallance, and why he was in this movie is a good question. Possible summing it up with another thing that crow says, "Jack's down years". The rest of the characters stumble through their dialogue and try to seem convincing, but it's just not possible with this movie(and I use this term lightly - it's more like a romp through the bowls of bad cinema).

Nothing much else can be said about this bad movie, except that it made for one good episode of MST3K. Probably one of my favorites next to Puma Man, Jack Frost, and a few others.

I would only recommend this movie if you are viewing the mst3k version. You are guaranteed the laugh through the episode.