Thunder (1983) User Reviews (14)

Thunder is B-Movie action fun as only the Italians can serve it up.

[tarbosh22000 · 6/10 · 8 July 2020]

Thunder (Gregory) is a mild-mannered Native American minding his own business and just trying to live his life in Page, Arizona. That is, until a crew of construction workers attempt to bulldoze an ancient Navajo burial site. He goes to the local police station, but Sheriff Bill Cook (Svenson) is no help, and his crew of angry, racist deputies, led by Barry Henson (Harmstorf) only seem to want to harass and torment Thunder.

After yet another gang of redneck attackers assaults Thunder, he finally snaps - into action, that is. Armed with a bow and arrow, a bazooka, and several bits of stolen construction equipment, Thunder gets in touch with his warrior roots and goes to war with the entire town! Luckily, on his side is the local DJ, who sends out encouraging messages, and a reporter named Brian Sherman (Malco) also gets behind Thunder's mission. What will be left in the wreckage after THUNDER rolls in?



Here we have the first entry in the Thunder trilogy, all of which are directed by Fabrizio De Angelis (as Larry Ludman of course), and starring Mark Gregory, AKA Marco Di Gregorio. As has been noted before, Thunder is very closely modeled after First Blood (1982), down to the veritable re-creation of certain scenes. That doesn't detract from its appeal, however. In fact, it only adds to it. Thunder boasts some fantastic location scenery, fights, car chases, and blow-ups. It's all set to a typically-great Francesco De Masi score and has some familiar B-Movie names we all know and love (though, to be fair, there should have been just a bit more Bo Svenson).



We really don't want to repeat what we said in our reviews for the other Thunder movies, especially part two, because much of that could apply here as well. A lot of the same stuff happens in all three movies in the trilogy. For example, the local redneck population call Thunder a barrage of racial slurs, including "redskin" many, many times. The fact that Thunder is played by Marco Di Gregorio, who was born in Rome and is about as Native American as Pope John Paul II, is very amusing.





The grandfather in the Thunder family steals the movie, or maybe it's just his dubbing. But we really enjoyed every scene this elderly gentleman was in, and the final third is a satisfying destruction spree you can't help but love. If you really do love it, you can watch it two more times in the sequels. Everything catches fire (literally) when Thunder hits his Breaking Point - not unlike Bo Svenson himself in the 1976 film of that name.

Thunder is B-Movie action fun as only the Italians can serve it up. It was perfect for the video stores of the day (even if, let's be fair, the minimal plot of the deputies chasing Thunder for almost the entire running time does wear a bit thin after a while). But it all ends on an encouraging note with a memorable final line. As an example of classic Rambosploitation, it's hard to do much better than Thunder.

A-ha ha ha ha ha ha Thun-Der!

[Coventry · 6/10 · 21 July 2015]

One of the main reasons why I worship the Italian exploitation film industry so much is because their rip-offs are often so damn blatant and shameless that you wonder how they even dared to register it on camera! Just look at the opening sequences of this "Thunder Warrior", for instance. A rusty old pick-up truck drops off a lone Vietnam War veteran, a seemingly calm and peaceful person with long dark hair and still wearing his soldier's clothes and a backpack over one shoulder. Does this image sound somewhat familiar? Well, it should, because "Thunder Warrior" is an all too obvious imitation of the tremendously successful "First Blood" that was released barely one year earlier. Thunder is the Navajo-version of John J. Rambo, but the actor Mark Gregory isn't nearly as muscular as Sylvester Stallone and definitely not as fierce and combative as he's depicted on the VHS-cover. In fact, Mark Gregory/Marco Di Gregorio isn't even a real Indian but a former shoe salesman from Italy who became a star for a very brief period thanks to "1990: The Bronx Warriors". Thunder is informed by this extremely old and awfully dubbed Native American grandfather that their sacred burial grounds are being overbuilt by capitalist real estate developers and urinated on by redneck construction workers. Thunder initially tries to diplomatically talk to Sheriff Bill Cook and his yokel deputies, but he's quickly chased out of town and beaten down in the sand. But he fights back and receives unexpected support from a freelance journalist and a radio DJ named Dancing Crow. The first half of "Thunder Warrior" is speedily paced and contains a couple of powerful action sequences, including a furious car chase and a raw fight, but I have to admit that the second half is dull, weak and severely lacking in the action department. Most of Thunder's opponents don't even get the ass-whooping they deserved (maybe because a few re-appear in the sequel?) and the grand finale is sorely disappointing. The supportive cast will appeal to cult cinema fanatics, with names like Bo Svenson ("Inglorious Bastards", "Snowbeast") Antonio Sabato ("Seven Blood Stained Orchids", "Gang War in Milan") and the über-sleazy Raimund Harmstorf. I haven't seen either of the two sequels yet, but here's to hoping that they unscrupulously rip off "Rambo: First Blood part II" and "Rambo III"

A young Indian exacts a strong vendetta against local authorities who harass his fellow tribe members

[ma-cortes · 5/10 · 24 November 2018]

A young Indian , lousily played by Mark Gregory, turns into a one army man when he is mistreated , as Thunder is determined to punish the local cops who are abusing his fellow tribe members .As a tough Native American is provoked to violence and then seeking a relentless vengeance . Mark is a young Indian called Thunder , he is a peaceful native whose quiet character is trigged by cutthroats , wrongful arrests, and injustices against his race . The Indian Thunder has vowed to live in peace and order but forswears the oath when his girlfriend is kidnapped and relatives are terrorized . Mark Gregory escapes into the Arizona mountains and leads his pursuers to all manner of lethal ends . Finally , an army of cops led by Bo Svenson , Raymond Harmstorf and other deputies are summoned to crush him .He is on the warpaths and he is gonna blow your town apart . They gave him hate , he gave them hell.

The picture deals with usual theme in Italian cinema of the 60s and 70s : a merciless vendetta . As revenge is the top priority , as the protagonist tormenting and reckoning the bad guys . Extremely violent and frequently confused, fueled on the revenge and no much concerned with the rules of plot realism . This is a rip-off to First Blood by Ted Kotcheff with Stallone that was followed by Rambo and sequels . Wooden acting by Mark Gregory as a two-fisted native American submitted to mistreats and prejudices, at the end he seeks vengance driving a caterpillar tractor against the nasties . He is accompanied by a motley group of secondaries as the American Bo Svenson , the German Raymond Harmstorf and a motley team of support cast who played a lot of genres in the sixties and seventies as Western , Peplum and Giallo, such as Paolo Malco , Nazzareno Zamperla , Bruno Corazzari, Goffredo Unger and Antonio Sábato. This Thunder had success in Italy , getting a boxoffice hit , being followed by 2 sequels also directed by Fabrizio de Angelis . As Thunder warrior II 1985 with Mark Gregory , Bo Svenson and Thunder warrior III 1988 with Mark Gregory , Ingrid Lawrence, John Philip Law , and Werner Pochath.

It contains spectacular outdoors photographed by Sergio Salvati , from Marble Canyon , Monumental Valley , Village of Oak Creek , Sedonia , and Navajo villages in Arizona . However , copy of the film is worn-out , being necessary a perfect remastering . Special mention for musical score , well composed by the prolific Francesco De Massi . The picture was regular , though professionally directed , by Fabrizio de Angelis who often used the pseudonym Larry Ludman . He has produced and directed a lot of B films of all kinds of genres , adventure , terror , and Wartime especially . As he has directed movies as Manhunt , Operation Nam , Deadly impact, Overthrow , being particularly known for the Karate Kimura series .

pretty entertaining & fun...

[BWozniak · 21 February 2003]

I know there are a lot of real bad action flicks out there, but this one isn't as bad as it sounds. Don't get me wrong, its not "good" or at least "quality" at all, but if you're in the mood for some cheezy action it'll do fine. There's a lot of bad, funny acting, a lot of building-up to a big revenge, typical '83 action stylee. I like the desolate desert locations and nice shots of caves & stuff. Antonio Sabato is pretty hilarious, especially when him & his boys blow up a gas station. I don't even think they had a reason to, just wanted a nice explosion in the movie or something.

Anyway, this is pretty entertaining stuff, and can't really be taken serious. Mark Gregory is a cool actor and its nice to see a native American as the good guy. Sit back and chill with a lil' Thunder Warrior to relive the times when we actually made movies like this.

Thunder Warrior: First Blood

[Jeope! · 2/10 · 18 January 2001]

Many were put off by Jeffrey Wright's portrayal of a Dominican drug lord in John Singleton's 2000 remake of "Shaft". The reason? Wright wasn't Hispanic. Not in any way. So the question begs to be asked, why was there no similar uproar when the white-as-snow Mark Gregory was cast as the Navajo lead in 1983's "Thunder Warrior"?

OK, so maybe I'm overstating here. Wright stole the show in "Shaft". Everybody talked about it. Gregory on the other hand, played out the role of Thunder to an audience of, well, zero. In fact, you'll be lucky to find a copy of "Thunder Warrior" in even the dankest of video cellars. And with good cause -- it like, totally stinks.

"Thunder Warrior", a gripping yarn about a lone soldier standing in the face of injustice, is a hot-blooded Reagan-era "Rambo" knockoff. And the parallels to Sly Stallone's "Rambo" are staggering: The vigilante lone-wolf warrior, the fighting-for-a-just-cause shtick, the massive odds piled up against him, yada yada yada. It's probably a purposeful move the producers made to keep this flick below radar, in order to avoid accusations of outright plagiarism.

Directed by Fabrizio de Angelis (the genius behind "Murder Alligator" and "Zombie Holocaust"), what we have here is a scorched tale of personal vengeance set in the American West, created by an Italian cast and crew, led of course by Gregory (ne, Marco di Gregario). In essence then, it's Spaghetti-Rambo.

But where "Thunder Warrior" splits from John Rambo comparisons is its level of quality. And by stretching the very definition of 'quality' to include "Rambo", surely now the abilities of "Thunder Warrior" can be understood. Combining chop-shop editing, stunted dialogue and stunts taken from "The A-Team" big book of tricks, it appears that poor Fabrizio's vision may not have been fully realized. And frankly, that's just sad. There is no action in this action movie. There are no thrills in this thriller. It defies any genre, the very reason the only place you'll find it now is in the five-cent bargain bin. Right next to its two(!) sequels.

I was against any imitation work. This movie is the movie "Fake Rambo"

[olcayozfirat · 3/10 · 3 February 2023]

1983 revenge themed movie. When the movie "First Blood" made a very good box office in 1982, they made a similar one through an Indian person. Whatever the American police were at that time, they either hug a Vietnam veteran or an Indian. An Indian teenager returns to his land. At that time, airport road works are being carried out around it. Here are the graves of their ancestors and the place is their own land. He goes to the sheriff to seek his rights, but he is fired from here. When he comes back, he is attacked. This neutralizes the attackers and flees.

The movie is 1 hour 20 minutes but it's like 3 hours. So very boring. The acting is a disaster. The man they found in the lead role can't act other than sulking. There is also a tin tin rushed in the field as an open target. But in the video era, this movie was watched a lot.

There is no sexuality in the movie and there is some nudity.

Knock knock on wood

[fmarkland32 · 2/10 · 17 September 2020]

Italian heart throb(?) Mark Gregory stars as a Native American Rambo clone who after protesting the bank building on his tribe's land is then later beat up by the locals and finally beaten up by the cops swipes a bow and arrow and steals a bulldozer to destroy the town in a derivative but very boring First Blood clone. Thunder Warrior represents a very sad case of good news and bad news scenario. The good news is the film is adequately made, the production values are serviceable and the story has even a few things that are actually timely now via the politics, and yet as much I would love to sing the praises of such, the problem is the story is too simplistic, the dialogue too leaden, the directing too boring and action too lame to add up to anything but a one star review. It's a shame too, cause I find Mark Gregory a Bad Movie icon, but this dull dud sans any of the goofy dumb charm or unintentional hilarity of 1990:Bronx Warriors or Escape From The Bronx. In fact for a movie that promised big machine guns and Rambo esque action, Thunder Warrior rates as a big loser.

* Out Of 4-(Bad)

THUNNNNNNNDER!

[BandSAboutMovies · 6/10 · 10 September 2018]

Native American warrior Thunder has returned home, only to discover that the white man is destroying his ancestral burial ground. He tries to stop them, but the law only protects whites. He's beaten and banished and left for dead. But now, he's going to get his revenge.

Yes, it's a takeoff of Rambo Italian style, but it also stars Mark Gregory! Yes, he looks sad for the entire movie. Yes, his long longs are intact. Yes, his lip quivers. And yes, he walks funny.

Directed by Fabrizio De Angelis, who also produced Zombi, The House by the Cemetery, The Beyond, 1990: The Bronx Warriors, The New York Ripper and more, this movie was shot in Monument Valley, Utah, so it really has an authentic background if not weaponry.

Sheela, Thunder's lady, is played by Valeria Cavalli from Fulci's Warriors of the Year 1972 and Lamberto Bava's A Blade in the Dark. Bo Svenson plays the evil sheriff. You may recognize him from taking over the lead role in Walking Tall part 2, as well as Inglorious B*sterds (and the remake), The Delta Force, Speed 2: Cruise Control and Kill Bill: Volume 2. Plus, you get Antonio Sabàto, Sr.!

Of course, Dardano Sacchetti wrote this, as he wrote nearly every important Italian genre film of the 1980's. Seriously, all the way back to A Bay of Blood to Shock, Manhattan Baby, Blastfighter, Devilfish and so many more. Alright, some of those are a bit more essential than the others.

If you want to watch Mark Gregory repeatedly get punched in the face and then getting his slow-motion revenge, awkwardly slapping at people and shooting gigantic weapons, then this is the movie for you. I'm pleased to report that there are two sequels.

Ticks Along Ok

[damianphelps · 6/10 · 28 March 2022]

Mark Gregory once again succeeds in delivering another trashy film. He seems completely suited to it, he makes them work.

The story of protecting his homeland works nicely and the action is delivered pretty well making for a reasonable film :)

Solid action epic from Italy

[Aylmer · 10/10 · 4 November 1998]

for those of you who long for the old Italian Spaghetti westerns of the 60's and 70's, here is a step in the vaguely right direction. Set in New Mexico's beautiful Monument Valley, although a bit more contemporary than the old west. Mark Gregory stars as an Indian who returned from Vietnam and gets disgruntled when absurdly racist locals harass him multiple times. He spends about 50 minutes destroying property and murdering police officers before he finally is recognized as a hero (!). The plot is silly, the dialog campy in the extreme, but the cast was likable and the action scenes were very well done. On top of that, the movie had an excellent Francesco De Masi musical score, which really gets the blood going at times. Good Sergio Salvati camerawork too. Low budget, but not nearly as cheesy as the two sequels which followed.

An immensely entertaining Italian rip-off of "First Blood"

[Woodyanders · 8/10 · 20 November 2007]

Noble Native American Thunder (likable Mark Gregory; Trash in "1990: The Bronx Warriors") returns to his small desert home town only to discover that an ancient Indian burial ground is being demolished by construction workers. Thunder tries to stop them to no avail. He gets beat up and run out of town but returns to further stir things up. Next thing you know Thunder is on the lam and being doggedly hunted in the wilderness by a posse led by hard-nosed Sheriff Bill Cook (the always fine Bo Svenson). Sound familiar? Yep, this low-budget Italian movie blatantly copies the superior Sylvestor Stallone vehicle "First Blood." Fortunately, director/co-writer Fabrizio De Angelis compensates for the dearth of originality by expertly maintaining a ceaseless breakneck pace throughout. Moreover, De Angelis stages the plentiful action scenes with rip-roaring brio (a wild car chase rates as the definite exciting highlight). Sergio Salvati's handsome, expansive cinematography, Francesco De Masi's rousing, tuneful, majestic score, the occasional snazzy use of strenuous slow motion, and the breathtaking Monument Valley locations are all up to speed. Nice supporting turns by Raimund Harmstorf as the jerky, antagonistic Deputy Barry Henson, Antonio Sabato as the zealously wicked troublemaker Thomas, Valeria Ross as the feisty Sheila, Paolo Malco as pesky TV reporter Brain Sherman, and Michele Mirabella as groovy disc jockey Dancing Crow. While it's no classic, this fast'n'furious little Grade B action item still makes the grade as a fun and thrilling flick all the same.

Rambo from Italy set in AZ!

[dannynsk · 1 September 2012]

When Thunder (played by Mark Gregory of 1990:Bronx Warriors) returns home to see his girlfriend, he finds the local bank has financed the construction of a new building directly on top a sacred family Indian burial ground still owned by his tribe. An elder, who is the grandfather of his girlfriend, explained to him how the city roughed him up when he went and asked them to stop and honor a hundred year treaty signed that his people own the land.

Thunder, gets angry, and starts trouble with the construction crew that starts this wave of destruction that sets the pace for the rest of the film. The local police department doesn't want the aggravation so they handcuff Thunder and drive him to the city limits warning him not to come back. Thunder obviously returns only to get slapped around and threatened by a group of officers that take the law into their own hands. He escapes the beating, not without turning the entire town upside down in a wild police chase. Hiding in the mountains, the police assemble a posse to go in after Thunder.

Sound familiar? I hope while you were reading this you caught on that this is an Italian rip off of the original First Blood. It's been released under a few names. You can find it on Netflix as Drug "Traffikers" (I didn't spell that wrong, that's how it's spelled!) which makes no sense because the film has absolutely nothing to do with drugs. The difference is this was filmed in the desert, as said in the film Page Arizona. Coincidentally, John Rambo was part Indian and from Yuma Arizona.

Now, Thunder is not a guy to mess with. The Elder stated that Thunder is the son of the son of Night Eagle. Not sure if that actually means anything, but it's got to mean some serious business. There are tons of similarities to First Blood such as the deputy Barry Henson acting just like First Bloods Galt, and Sheriff Bill Cook (Played by Bo Svenson of Kill Bill, The Inglorious Bastards, and Delta Force) is manner exactly like Sheriff Teasle. Thunder jumps off a cliff to escape in a scene, minus the tree, and is pretty amazing with a bow and arrow. He destroys a police station and a bank, and though he doesn't blow up a gas station, one does get blown to smithereens. He even tells a cop that was inches from death to let it go, in other words.

A great warning is said in the film that states, "Thunder hasn't dug up his war hatchet yet." Not that he ever does, because he steals a bulldozer armed with a bazooka and starts blowing everything in his way up. There is a scene where he is being hunted by two guys on horseback and he shoots the bazooka at them. Priceless. For Arizona residents, you do briefly get to see the Glen Canyon Dam (Not to be confused with The Hoover Dam), a few Arizona chains still in business in the background of the city, and a college football game talking about The Sun Devils Stadium which is minutes from my house.

Thunder is a lot of fun and perfect for any dude night. It has some corny voice-overs that will make you laugh, great explosions, and come on, it's a rip off of one of the greatest action films ever made. Look out for the little kid at the end in war face paint when he says, "Thunder will never die." It deserves the cheesiest voice-over of a kid ever to end a film award!

A good score, beautiful locations and a number of explosions and car crashes can't save this poor man's Rambo: First Blood knock off.

[aloep · 1 March 2007]

Having really enjoyed "Manhunt" from director Fabrizio De Angelis starring Ethan Wayne, I decided to give this one a go. Thunder Warrior covers similar ground in a number of ways; beautiful American Southwest desert locations, spaghetti western style score from Francesco De Masi and long car chases with a number of slow motion crashes. I love the American west, I love car chases and Francesco De Masi's scores usually fit these locations perfectly. I particularly liked his scores in De Angelis' "Manhunt" and Chuck Norris' "Lone Wolf McQuade". Upon seeing the spectacular shots of Utah's Monument Valley in the intro coupled with another excellent score, it all got off to a good start. But by the time the credits rolled I was feeling distinctly underwhelmed and am not going to recommend it for several reasons.

Mark Gregory plays "Thunder", a native American who returns to his hometown only to find construction workers inconspicuously blowing up gravestones in his cemetery with dynamite. After a slow-mo fight, he goes to the local sheriff who orders him to back off. After protesting at the bank who's funding the construction workers, he's escorted out of town by the nasty Deputy Barry Henson who threatens him not to return.

He coincidentally runs into a group of construction workers led by Thomas (Antonio Sabato, father of the great non-actor Antonio Sabato Jr.) who beat him to a pulp and leave him in the desert. He returns to the town only to be spotted by Deputy Barry and his gang, only to get beaten again. He escapes, jumps in a pickup truck and a car chase follows with a number of police cars crashing and some pretty cool stunts and slow motion shots.

Unfortunately, the aforementioned car chase is by far the best action scene the film has to offer. It's pretty much a yawner from here on. A cat and mouse game ensues, and it really doesn't know where it wants to go. The next half hour or so has Thunder fighting with several police officers and warning them to "Back off or you'll all end up like Custer", badly wounding Deputy Barry with a crossbow and a television reporter who sides with him and contacts a radio host who glorifies Thunder as a hero, which doesn't seem to have any real point.

Antonio Sabato and his thugs get hold of a bazooka and kidnap Thunder's girlfriend. Thunder of course runs into them and kills them, saves his girlfriend who tells him to "Show the white men how an Indian fights". Thunder takes the bazooka, which seems to have an infinite supply of rockets. He then steals a bulldozer and drives into town in it, smashing threw a roadblock and firing at a police car with the bazooka, which only blows the hood off and sets the front alight. He then destroys the police station by driving threw it with the digger, then drives into the bank and proceeds to attack it with his bazooka by standing only inches away from walls and firing at it, which creates a small explosion and a fire. Now, I can't claim that I've ever used a bazooka, nor am I a weapons expert or anything of the kind so correct me if I'm wrong, but I certainly would have thought they're about 10 times more powerful than that, and if it were to hit a car the whole vehicle would blow, not just the hood.

So the bank is now surrounded by police from all angles and it certainly looks like there's no way out. A cop whose life Thunder apparently once saved enters the building and somehow gets him out while surrounded by all these police and the credits role. Yes, that's it. Nothing even happens to Deputy Barry, who was an exceptionally nasty creature who vowed to kill Thunder for injuring his brother, also a deputy.

Being an Italian film, much of the cast and crew are Italian and the version I watched was dubbed in English. It makes it's first mistake though by casting Italian Mark Gregory as a Native American, which makes it all the more cringeworthy in the scenes where he makes racial comments like "Back off or you'll all end up like Custer" and when the girlfriend says "Show the white men how an Indian fights", the latter of which was especially embarrassing since there is no Indian in this film, and those cast as such are of exactly the same race as many of the Italian actors playing "white men". Not only is Mark Gregory not a convincing native American, he's not a convincing tough guy either. He's very un-emotive and walks oddly to say the least.

The production values are by far the best asset of the film. Despite a fuzzy looking picture on the VHS I watched (I can only assume that was because of the age of material rather than the film itself), the photography and locations are beautiful and it's amazing how many cars (many of which looked new) and buildings they managed to destroy in a low budget production.

Overall, it makes for a fairly tedious 90 minutes. Despite one entertaining chase scene and beautiful locations, it trips up on way too much to possibly recommend it. And yes, it is indeed a huge rip off of Rambo: First Blood, and a bad rip off at that. Unless you're a huge fan of Italian cinema, then I'd recommend giving it a wide berth. The rest of you should just watch First Blood for the 100th time. Despite it's obscurity and ineptitude in most angles, it must have been fairly successful on the rental market in that it managed to spawn not one, but two sequels. Part III manages to be worse at every angle which is quite an achievement, but it falls into so bad it's good territory.

Navajo "Rambo" all'italiana

[lor_ · 13 March 2023]

My review was written in June 1986 after watching the movie on Trans World Entertainment video cassette.

"Thunder Warrior" (a/k/a "Thunder") is an okay Italian action picture, benefiting immensely from gorgeous Arizona locations in Monument Valley, the Grand Canyon and environs. Released theatrically overseas, the shot-in-1983 opus debuted on video cassette domestically, with a sequel "Thunder 2" currently in production.

Mark Gregory portrays Thunder, a young Navajo Indian who returns home to find that the tribal burial ground is being destroyed to become the site of an observatory, breaking a treaty signed 100 years ago by his grandfather. After starting a fight on the construction site with a worker named Thomas (Antonio Sabato), Thunder sits in at the office of Sheriff Cook (Bo Svenson). Brushed-off by Cook, he shifts his sit-in to the local bank that is financing the project and is promptly escorted out of the county by the cops.

Subsequently beaten by Thomas and his coworkers, and then treated to police brutality by Deputy Barry (Raymond Harmstorf), Thunder arms himself and becomes a mini-"Rambo" out of "First Blood". He survives, hence the sequel, and is established as a local folk hero after numerous encounters with the police and rednecks who try to hunt him down.

Filmmaker Fabrizio de Angelis (who likes to use the pseudonym "Larry Ludman" when directing), delivers fine stunts and chases, but overdoes slow motion to stylized violent scenes. Western-flavored music by Francesco De Masi is a plus, though film's main draw is its beautiful locations. Typically for an Italian visiting production, interiors were lensed back in Rome.

Star Gregory is good as the sullen Indian, a big improvement on his campy thesping in De Angelis' production of "1990: The Bronx Warriors".