Angkor: Cambodia Express

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Angkor: Cambodia Express
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Directed byLek Kitiparaporn
Written byRoger Crutchley
Kailan
Story byGianfranco Coujoumdjian
Produced byLek Kitaparaporn
Dick Randall
Starring Robert Walker Jr.
Christopher George
Woody Strode
Nancy Kwan
Sorapong Chatree
Cinematography Roberto Forges Davanzati
Edited byMorris Goodyear
Music by Stelvio Cipriani
Release date
  • 1982 (1982)
LanguageEnglish

Angkor: Cambodia Express (Italian : Cambogia Express, also known as Kampuchea Express) is a 1982 Thai-Italian adventure-action film produced and directed by Lek Kitiparaporn and starring Robert Walker Jr. and Christopher George. [1] [2]

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Premise

The setting for the film is in the Cambodian period following the withdrawal of the United States two years prior. [3] In this period when Pol Pot reigned, a journalist is searching for his Vietnamese lover who is missing. [4]

Cast

Release

American audiences didn't see a release of the film until it was released on video in 1986. [6]

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References

  1. Cohn, Lawrence L. (July 16, 1986). "Angkor-Cambodia Express" (review). Variety (323), p. 18.
  2. Weldon, Michael. The psychotronic video guide. St. Martin’s Griffin, 1996. p. 23.
  3. Frame by Frame II: A Filmography of the African American Image, 1978-1994, By Phyllis Rauch Klotman, Gloria J. Gibson - Page 23 Alphabetical Listing of Films
  4. Film Story - Angkor: Cambodia Express (Kampuchea Express Archived 2016-09-09 at the Wayback Machine
  5. VPRO Cinema - Angkor-Cambodia Express, credits
  6. Frame by Frame II: A Filmography of the African American Image, 1978-1994, By Phyllis Rauch Klotman, Gloria J. Gibson - Page 23 Alphabetical Listing of Films