Tiger Joe (film)

Tiger Joe
Italian theatrical release poster by Enzo Sciotti
Directed by	Antonio Margheriti
Written by	Tito Carpi
Story by	Gianfranco Coujoumdjian
Produced by	Gianfranco Couyoumdjian
Starring	David Warbeck Annie Belle Tony King
Cinematography	Riccardo Pallottini
Music by	Carlo Savina
Distributed by	Variety Distribution
Release date	1982 (1982)
Running time	96 minutes
Language	Italian

Tiger Joe (Italian : Fuga dall'arcipelago maledetto) is a 1982 Italian adventure film written and directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring David Warbeck, Annie Belle and Tony King. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Plot

Tiger Joe is a former US Army Special Forces Vietnam Veteran now gunrunning to anti-Khmer Rouge freedom fighters. When his plane is shot down, Tiger Joe joins a female rebel in her fight.

Cast

• David Warbeck as Joe "Tiger Joe"
• Annie Belle as Kia
• Tony King as "Midnight" Washington
• Alan Collins as Lenny
• Giancarlo Badessi as Bronski

Production

Cinematographer Riccardo Pallottini died in a helicopter crash during production. ^[4]

Reception

Italian critic Tullio Kezich praised the film, claiming that it "is shot with a variety of images and rhythms sometimes lacking in its American counterparts" and "exudes a sense of cinema absent in works of far greater ambition". ^[5]

See also

• List of Italian films of 1982

References

1. Ben Cobb. "Jungle fever: ‘The last hunter’" in Search & destroy. Creation Books, 2003. Chapter. 4, pp. 57-63.
2. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 2000. pp. 271–2. ISBN   8877424230.
3. Kim Worthy. "Tiger Joe" in Vietnam War Feature Filmography: An Encyclopedic Reference of Imaginative Films about Vietnam. J.-J. Malo, 1992. pp. 391-2.
4. Margheriti and The Last Hunter Documentary, 2007. Last accessed: September 2008.
5. Kezich, Tullio (1987). Il Film '80 Cinque Anni al Cinema 1982-1986. Mondadori. p. 101. ISBN   9788804288282.

External links

• Tiger Joe at IMDb
• Tiger Joe at Variety Distribution