Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Peter Fonda | ... | Ken | |
Cornelia Sharpe | ... | Nancy Stillman | |
John Phillip Law | ... | Greg | |
Richard Lynch | ... | Art | |
Alberto de Mendoza | ... | Martin (as Alberto Mendoza) | |
William Holden | ... | Hal Wolkowski | |
Helga Liné | ... | Sue (as Helga Line) | |
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Didi Sherman | ... | Helen |
Concha Cuetos | ... | Joyce (as Conchita Cuetos) | |
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Blanca Estrada | ... | Alice Rennick |
May Heatherly | ... | Alicia Rennick | |
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Beatriz Savón | ... | Sandy (as Beatriz Savon) |
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Mabel Escaño | ... | Waitress |
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Scott Miller | ... | Purcell |
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Jaime Doria | ... | Carter |
Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendencies. They kidnap people, brutalize them, then turn them loose and hunt them like animals. However the father of one of their earlier victims is plotting a vicious revenge against them. Written by Jonathon Dabell <J.D.@pixie.ntu.ac.uk>
This film is a revelation in terms of editing technique, the use of stills right in the middle of the action (this is 1974, a long time pre-John Woo)and several passages of pretty associative editing. The photography is stunning with spectacularly framed images. There is a very thought-out way of using sound, with a change of perspective (from clos up to a wide shot and vice versa) that is counteracted by the sound - a lot of close-up conversation takes place on wide shots. and finally, because some folks think this is boring - the way the topic of the movie - the use of humans as living targets - is introduced is pretty compelling - the audience is not given a clue, or a well-worded plan - we are kept just as informed as the victims, and when seeing the movie for the first time, stuff like putting the chain on the woman in the kitchen really comes as an awful surprise - yet Fonda delivers this as if it was routine as usual (which it obviously is for his character) - thrilling stuff. They did a lot of experimenting with editing and imaging in the 70s which should not be lost. this movie should be put on dvd!