Complete credited cast: | |||
Lewis Collins | ... | Carrasco | |
Klaus Kinski | ... | Silveira | |
Cristina Donadio | ... | Maria | |
Manfred Lehmann | ... | Padre Julio | |
John Steiner | ... | Smithy | |
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Hans Leutenegger | ... | Capitan |
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Thomas Danneberg | ... | José |
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Francis Derosa | ... | Hidalgo |
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Alan C. Walker | ... | Emiliano |
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Julio Rodrigo | ... | Pablito |
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Rene Abadeza | ... | Hector (as René Abadeza) |
Subas Herrero | ... | Homoza (as Subas Herrera) | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Juliet Gusman | ... | Conception |
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Michael James | ... | Padre Miguel |
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Blandino Navarro | ... | Jaime (as Brand Navarro) |
A cruel dictator rules a Latin American state. Corruption, brutality and exploitation are present every day. A few people begin to organise resistance. Under the leader "El Leopardo" a small group of guerillas fights against the violent government... Written by Peter W. Simeon <simeon@imdb.com>
Antonio Margheriti was a director who knocked out many films from different genres depending what was popular at the time in the Italian B-movie industry. He made films in various sub-categories - science fiction, Gothic horror, peplums, spaghetti westerns, gialli, pollsters, a creature feature, a cannibal movie, various action flicks – you name it! Commando Leopard is one of the latter, an 80's action-fest set in Latin America about an evil dictator and his sadistic adviser in their war against heroic resistance fighters.
Its story is very routine stuff really, that only serves as a platform for much explosions and shooting. But I would have to say that this is an above average example of this kind of thing. It has a decent enough cast, with Lewis Collins and John Steiner doing well enough as the chief resistance fighters and, better still, Klaus Kinski on hand for yet another turn as a bad tattie; in this case the psychotic military adviser who blows up a plane of children as part of his day job! What really elevates this one though are some very well crafted destruction scenes where we have a dam, a bridge and a train blown up in impressive ways but best of all is the aforementioned destruction of a passenger aircraft just before landing. This sequence really is very well executed indeed and illustrates that this is an 80's action film which has been made with a bit of effort.