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The Final Executioner
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Wikipedia article
'The Final Executioner' is an Italian post-apocalyptic film released in 1984.
Synopsis
The resulting fallout from a nuclear war has contaminated most of the cities except for a few isolated towns. The remaining society is divided into clean and contaminated people.
Those "convicted" of being contaminated are moved to preserves for hunting by the elites - those ruled clean. An elite group has taken up the sport of hunting the contaminated people, and have killed almost 80 million.
Alan, an elite cybernetic expert (William Mang) tries to put a stop to this, as his wife is soon to be one of those being hunted. For attempting to reveal what's really happening, he is stripped of his privileges and sent to a preserve. Alan is forced to watch several of the deprivations of the hunters, and after being shot falls into a river.
He ends up in the home of an ex-cop Woody Strode and receives training from him. Alan and the cop then invade the citadel of the hunters.
A bloodbath ensues.
Cast
William Mang ... Alan Tanner
Marina Costa ... Edra
Harrison Muller ... Erasmus
Woody Strode ... Sam
Margie Newton ... Diane (as Margi Newton)
Stefano Davanzati ... Melvin
Renato Miracco ... Louis
Maria Romano ... Magda
Luca Giordana ... Phil
Karl Zinny ... Evan, the Boy
Cinzia Bonfantini ... Alan's Wife
Giovanni Cianfriglia ... Walker
Production
A certain amount of footage from this film was used in a later film 'The Bronx Executioner'.CHUD.com [http://www.chud.com/108606/collecting-vhs-the-final-executioner-1984/ COLLECTING VHS: The Final Executioner (1984)]'The Most Dangerous Cinema: People Hunting People on Film' - Bryan Senn [https://books.google.com/books?id=HeKvAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA157&lpg=PA157&dq=the+final+executioner+the+bronx+executioner&source=bl&ots=cs6pNRLg9k&sig=MnFOkQhotlOC84pJXJBMOFIj0bQ&hl=ko&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi02OqE4rDLAhUCnZQKHbaGCZs4ChDoAQgzMAM#v=onepage&q=the%20final%20executioner%20the%20bronx%20executioner&f=false Page 156 - 157] Woody Strode's footage as the character Sam is re-used in 'The Bronx Executioner', and his character is called Warren.Monstor Hunter Reviews [http://monsterhuntermoviereviews.com/ Bronx Executioner (1989] Margit Evelyn Newton was the only actor from this film to have new scenes shot in the second.Pop Matters [http://www.popmatters.com/column/168411-margie-newton-the-story-of-italys-bellissima-actress-in-her-own-word/ Italy's Lost Bellissima Actress, Margie Newton, Re-Appears in The Next Reel]
Reception
In a retrospective review, Jeremy Wheeler of AllMovie commented that despite the film having a "leather-clad, big-haired warrior on a sleek, black motorcycle carrying a samurai sword on the barren dunes of the future" sounding "genius enough" the film still contained "all the pitfalls of the cheap Italian post-apocalyptic flicks of this time with little of the gratuitous nature that the best of the bunch have been graced with." Kim Newman found this movie to be the "best of a bad lot" of the group of cheap, Italian post apocalyptic movies of the 1980s.Newman, K. (2000) Apocalypse Movies. St Martin's Griffin p. 188 Creature Feature gave the movies 1.5 out of 5 stars, noting that the violence on both sides makes it hard to feel empathy for Mang and that the direction was lacking elan.Stanley, J. (2000) Creature Feature: 3rd Edition. Berkley Boulevard TV Guide found the movie to better than most of the genre, and the Strode's performance was impressive, but gave the movie one of five stars labeling it a time killer.
TV Guide: The Final Executioner Retrieved 06/08/2020 https://www.tvguide.com/movies/the-final-executioner/review/114746/
See also
* Woody Strode
References
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