The inglorious end of the GERMAN ADVENTURE FLICKS with Elke Sommer and Brad Harris
In 1986, what was left of the West German film industry dared once again to revive a genre that had been successful twenty years previously. But it was just an attempt! Theo Maria Werner produced the CCC film in Sri Lanka with Artur Brauner, and the veteran Franz Josef Gottlieb directed it. But the time for GERMAN ADVENTURE FLICKS was simply over in the face of competition from "Indiana Jones" and "Romancing The Stone".
The cast was and is promising in itself: Brad Harris, Tony Kendall and Siegfried Rauch as old comrades in arms; GOLDEN GLOBE winner Elke Sommer, Heather Thomas (The Fall Guy), Katja Flint and Birte Berg as female eye-catchers and also the karate-tested pop singer Christian Anders. However, the acting performances can be described as rather lackluster. The main actor Albert Fortell, who doesn't play very convincingly, is particularly bad. The story about an amulet of death and dark drug dealings on the island is also completely crazy. And the action? It was just getting a bit old.
What remains is a final reunion with such deserving genre stars of West German cinema as Elke Sommer, Brad Harris and Tony Kendall. And that can be nice for nostalgic reasons.
In 1986, what was left of the West German film industry dared once again to revive a genre that had been successful twenty years previously. But it was just an attempt! Theo Maria Werner produced the CCC film in Sri Lanka with Artur Brauner, and the veteran Franz Josef Gottlieb directed it. But the time for GERMAN ADVENTURE FLICKS was simply over in the face of competition from "Indiana Jones" and "Romancing The Stone".
The cast was and is promising in itself: Brad Harris, Tony Kendall and Siegfried Rauch as old comrades in arms; GOLDEN GLOBE winner Elke Sommer, Heather Thomas (The Fall Guy), Katja Flint and Birte Berg as female eye-catchers and also the karate-tested pop singer Christian Anders. However, the acting performances can be described as rather lackluster. The main actor Albert Fortell, who doesn't play very convincingly, is particularly bad. The story about an amulet of death and dark drug dealings on the island is also completely crazy. And the action? It was just getting a bit old.
What remains is a final reunion with such deserving genre stars of West German cinema as Elke Sommer, Brad Harris and Tony Kendall. And that can be nice for nostalgic reasons.