Mondo Macabro has been releasing several examples of Greek exploitation cinema lately, which is a genre I have only recently started to dip my toe into. This is directed by Kostas Karagiannis, who directed more than a hundred movies between 1961 and 1990, including Land of the Minotaur, The Wife Killer and Tango of Perversion.
Deborah Shelton, a former Miss USA and star of Dallas, Body Double and Sins of the Night, plays the captain's wife. That's right. That's the only name she gets. When her husband is killed by pirates, she's left alone with these rough and brutal men on the roughest of seas. That said, she's not unafraid to use her body and cunning to stay alive and start to plan her revenge.
Set entirely on a ship carrying an illegal cargo of dangerous nitroglycerin, this film places all the many sides against one another. No one is blameless. No one is safe. Not many people have clothes on, either.
Complicating matters is that one of the film's stars is named Kostas Karagiorgis, when the director is Kostas Karagiannis. Perhaps these names, in Greece, are as common as John Smith.
The original Greek title, Anomalo Fortio, translates as An Abnormal Load, which makes the 12-year-old in me laugh to no end.
Deborah Shelton, a former Miss USA and star of Dallas, Body Double and Sins of the Night, plays the captain's wife. That's right. That's the only name she gets. When her husband is killed by pirates, she's left alone with these rough and brutal men on the roughest of seas. That said, she's not unafraid to use her body and cunning to stay alive and start to plan her revenge.
Set entirely on a ship carrying an illegal cargo of dangerous nitroglycerin, this film places all the many sides against one another. No one is blameless. No one is safe. Not many people have clothes on, either.
Complicating matters is that one of the film's stars is named Kostas Karagiorgis, when the director is Kostas Karagiannis. Perhaps these names, in Greece, are as common as John Smith.
The original Greek title, Anomalo Fortio, translates as An Abnormal Load, which makes the 12-year-old in me laugh to no end.