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'Angkor: Cambodia 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.[Cohn, Lawrence L. (July 16, 1986). "Angkor-Cambodia Express" (review). 'Variety' (323), p. 18.][Weldon, Michael. 'The psychotronic video guide'. St. Martins Griffin, 1996. p. 23.]
Premise
The setting for the film is in the Cambodian period following the withdrawal of the United States two years prior.['Frame by Frame II: A Filmography of the African American Image, 1978-1994', By Phyllis Rauch Klotman, Gloria J. Gibson - [https://books.google.com/books?id=kczcgHtgGfYC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=%22Lek+Kitiparaporn%22&source=bl&ots=mMBVGvxgnX&sig=0FPCB1z8ZVgv7Tjhf-G6Ic-bHdg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiSxNrw-ZHSAhWCr1QKHRBQAlk4ChDoAQgYMAA#v=onepage&q=%22Lek%20Kitiparaporn%22&f=false Page 23 Alphabetical Listing of Films]] In this period when Pol Pot reigned, a journalist is searching for his Vietnamese lover who is missing.[Film Story - [http://www.filmstory.org/films/280 Angkor: Cambodia Express (Kampuchea Express] ]
Cast
* Robert Walker Jr. as Andrew Cameron
* Christopher George as MacArthur
* Woody Strode as Woody
* Nancy Kwan as Sue
* Sorapong Chatree as Montri
* Lui Leung Wai as Mitr Saren
* Nit Alisa as Mieng
* Suchao Pongwilai as Montri[VPRO Cinema - [http://www.vpro.nl/cinema/films/film~312794~angkor-cambodia-express~.html Angkor-Cambodia Express, credits]]
Release
American audiences didn't see a release of the film until it was released on video in 1986.['Frame by Frame II: A Filmography of the African American Image, 1978-1994', By Phyllis Rauch Klotman, Gloria J. Gibson - [https://books.google.com/books?id=kczcgHtgGfYC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=%22Lek+Kitiparaporn%22&source=bl&ots=mMBVGvxgnX&sig=0FPCB1z8ZVgv7Tjhf-G6Ic-bHdg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiSxNrw-ZHSAhWCr1QKHRBQAlk4ChDoAQgYMAA#v=onepage&q=%22Lek%20Kitiparaporn%22&f=false Page 23 Alphabetical Listing of Films]]
See also
* List of Italian films of 1982
* List of Thai films
References
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