The Triple B Series is a franchise of twelve films that focus around the DEA agents based in Hawaii and later the secret activities of a secret U.S. spy agency known as L.E.T.H.A.L (Legion to Ensure Total Harmony and Law). Because of the spy agency acronym, the series is sometimes referred to as the L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies series with the final two films in the series carrying the L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies name above the title in some territories[1]. All but two films in the franchise are directed by Andy Sidaris. Although some of the films feature returning characters, some actors appear throughout the series in different roles and there is little effort to maintain series continuity between instalments.
The film follows wealthy playboy/private investigator named Cody Abilene is hired by a government intelligence operative to investigate a lead into who is selling computer technology to the Russians. While investigating rich socialites, amorous naked vixens, and an ex-con with a penchant for blackmail, and keeping it all from his sexy lady cop friend Beverly Mcafee, Cody puts himself in the crosshairs of the traitorous tech spies who will gladly kill to stay in business.[citation needed]
When two drug enforcement agents are killed on a private Hawaiian island, Donna and Taryn, two operatives for The Agency, accidentally intercept a delivery of diamonds intended for drug lord Seth Romero, who takes exception and tries to get them back. Soon other Agency operatives get involved, and a full-scale fight to the finish ensues, complicated by the escape of a very dangerous snake infected by deadly toxins from cancer-infested rats.[citation needed]
Hawaiian agents Donna and Taryn join a Travis Abilene, who is out to stop a criminal mastermind and assassin seeking out a valuable piece of artwork.[citation needed]
Savage Beach is a 1989 American action film. It is the first film in the series to feature Shane Abilene, played by Michael J. Shane, who would remain with the series up to Fit to Kill. Despite the inclusion of another Abilene brother, Donna and Taryn are featured as the main characters. It also marks the first appearance of Bruce Penhall as CIA agent Bruce Christian, who would join the agency and feature in future films. 1998's L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Return to Savage Beach serves as a direct sequel to the plot of this film, but features only one returning character, Rodrigo Obregón as Rodrigo Martinez.[citation needed]
Donna and Taryn are sent to the Philippines to deliver a much needed vaccine. However on their return journey they crash land on a remote island in the pacific and right into the middle of an adventure with a shipwrecked WW2 Japanese soldier, a secret army detachment headed by Captain Andreas and Philippine treasure hunters all involved with a lost detachment of gold bars lost during the war.[citation needed]
International crime lord Juan Degas, also known as Jack of Diamonds, stages a brutal murder to lure federal agents away from Hawaii in an attempt to smuggle assault weapons from China to South America through their territory.[citation needed]
A bounty has been placed on the head of agents Donna and Nicole by Japanese crime lord Masakana 'Kane' Kaneshiro and six teams of lethal assassins are hunting them down. It is up to their agency colleagues to thwart Kaneshiro's evil plans.[citation needed]
Martin Kane smuggles a nuclear trigger out of China and agrees to sell it to a terrorist in the Middle East. The US Intelligence Services send a special undercover agent to steal the device from Kane, but she fails and is found murdered. A team of three further agents, Donna Hamilton, Nicole Justin, and Edy Stark, is then sent in to try to retrieve the situation, fighting a gang of hi-tech smugglers with a deadly array of weaponry and erotic charms.[citation needed]
International arms dealer Martin Kane seeks a Russian imperial diamond which was stolen by a Nazi officer from a Leningrad museum during WWII. It is up to the Agency to stop him in one last, daring mission.[citation needed]
Enemy Gold is a 1993 action/adventure film directed by Christian Drew Sidaris (Andy Sidaris's son, sometimes referred to simply as Drew Sidaris)[6] and written by Wess Rahn and Sidaris. It is the first film in the series not to be directed by Andy Sidaris, although he did produce the film. Bruce Penhall stars as a new federal agent, Chris Cannon.
Three Federal agents go in search of gold supposedly hidden by Quantrell during the Civil War after they are suspended by a corrupt official for excessive force during a drug raid. Meanwhile a vicious drug lord hires a lethal assassin to kill the three for interfering with his operations.[citation needed]
The Dallas Connection is a 1994 action/adventure film and sequel to Enemy Gold directed by Christian Drew Sidaris. Bruce Penhall and Mark Barriere return as federal agents Chris Cannon and Mark Austin.[citation needed]
Scientists in charge of a sophisticated, state-of-the-art, military satellite are being assassinated one by one. It's up to a team of federal agents to protect the last surviving scientist able to activate the satellite before the assassin strikes again.[citation needed]
Day of the Warrior is a 1996 action/adventure film, also known as L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Day of the Warrior[7] The film is written and directed by Andy Sidaris and starring Kevin Light and Julie Strain.[8] It is the first film since Savage Beach not to feature Bruce Penhall in any role.
A team of female agents at top spy agency L.E.T.H.A.L (Legion to Ensure Total Harmony and Law) must stop the scheme of the Warrior, a former CIA agent turned criminal freelancer, who stole the agency's computer database and is now going after undercover agents one by one.[citation needed]
Return to Savage Beach is a 1996 action/adventure film, also known as L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Return to Savage Beach is a 1998 action film written and directed by Andy Sidaris, a sequel to Sidaris' Day of the Warrior. It features the return of much of the original cast, including Marcus Bagwell reprising the role as Warrior but this time working on the side of the L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies, as well as the addition of former Playboy PlaymateCarrie Westcott as the mysterious Sofia. It is the final film in the series.[citation needed]
A stolen computer floppy disc filled with information about the location of a mythical treasure in Savage Island will lure both villains and L.E.T.H.A.L. Agents into a dangerous treasure hunt with a familiar face from the past pulling all the strings.[citation needed]
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Day of the Warrior is a 1996 action adventure film written and directed by Andy Sidaris and starring Kevin Light and Julie Strain. It is the eleventh and penultimate instalment in Andy Sidaris' Triple B film series.
L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Return to Savage Beach, sometimes credited under just the subtitle, is a 1998 action film written and directed by Andy Sidaris, a sequel to Sidaris' Day of the Warrior. It features the return of much of the cast from the previous film, including Marcus Bagwell reprising the role as Warrior but this time working on the side of the L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies, as well as the addition of former Playboy Playmate Carrie Westcott as the mysterious Sofia. It's the twelfth and to date, the last of the Triple B film series, which began in 1985 with Malibu Express. It was also Sidaris' final film before his death.
Andrew William Sidaris was an American television and film director, producer, screenwriter. After a pioneering career directing televised sports beginning in the 1960s, Sidaris wrote and directed a successful series of action B-movies from 1985 to 1998—dubbed the "Bullets, Bombs, and Babes" series—that featured Playboy Playmates and Penthouse Pets in starring roles. In 2014, Paste magazine named one such picture, Hard Ticket to Hawaii, the best B-movie of all time.
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