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Robert Short (writer)
Release Date:
April 1987 (USA)
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A female, middle eastern, terrorist is captured by the CIA in Greece after an attack on a marketplace...
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CIA
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Killing Machine
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Assassination
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Death
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Crete
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Mother of female action films
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Robert Ginty | ... | Eric Mathews |
 | Sandahl Bergman | ... | Samira |
| Louise Caire Clark | ... | Sharon |
| James Booth | ... | Broxk |
 | Paul Walker | ... | Jason |
| Arnon Zadok | ... | Hassim |
 | Alex Courtney | ... | Blake |
 | Charles Howerton | ... | CIA agent |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Bill Allard | ... | Assistant surgeon |
| Chaim Banai | ... | Racehorse |
| Peter Bromilow | ... | Donovan |
| Liliana Cameroni | ... | Nurse |
| Dan Coffey | ... | Assistant doctor |
| Jason Cornado | ... | Chuck |
 | George Fisher | ... | Mike |
| John Gillespie | ... | Soldier |
| Dale Goodson | ... | Jerry |
| Robert Gould | ... | Computer operator |
 | Chuck Hicks | ... | Cig. Guard |
 | Clyde Jones | ... | Pool player (as Clyde R. Jones) |
| Paul Kent | ... | Carlson |
| Merle Kessler | ... | Medical technician |
| Michael Kinney | ... | Lt. Young |
| Barry Langford | ... | Priest |
| Yasmin Levi | ... | Mary |
| Arlene Lorre | ... | Woman |
| Leon Martell | ... | Assistant doctor |
| Jack Massinger | ... | Doctor |
| Steven Pudenz | ... | Brain surgon (as Steve Pudenz) |
| Nafi Salach | ... | Tarik |
| Dodik Smadar | ... | Charlie |
| Ari Sorkoram | ... | Surgeon |
| James D. Trenton | ... | Businessman |
| Jim Turner | ... | Chris |
| Arnon Tzador | ... | Hassim |
| Jerry Weinstock | ... | Kelly |
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The Retaliator
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91 min
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Still-timely plot involving a female Middle Eastern terrorist who is caught and re-programmed to go after her former comrades ... all well and good, until the programming goes awry. Straightforward, simple plotting, the action is never allowed to lapse, AND ... this will never happen again ... NO political grandstanding on who is right and wrong in the Middle East situation. Suitably unpretentious production and very workmanlike acting all around, and Sandahl Bergman turns in a rather unnerving performance as Samira, the death machine; the only other actress this good in such a role at the time was Claire Wren in "Steel and Lace," another movie which will appeal to those who like this one. This movie cries out for a remake, maybe with Michelle Rodriguez, though it won't happen; a DVD release of this one would be better.