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By Hank Reineke
Blue Underground’s double-feature Blu Ray issue of Code 7… Victim 5 and Mozambique is a generous release considering the company chose to simultaneously issue both films as standalone DVDs. Both films are among the earliest big screen efforts of notorious exploitation producer Harry Alan Towers. Both were adapted from Tower’s own semi-original scenarios (under his usual pseudonym of “Peter Welbeck”) and both were penned by the Australian screenwriter Peter Yeldham with British director Robert Lynn at the helm.
Both men had been working in television and, like Towers, were now gingerly testing the waters of the international movie business. The films, modest thrillers financed by Tower’s UK Company “Towers of London,” nonetheless share a continental roster of technicians and actors. The films are serviceably entertaining as thrillers, but are most ambitious in conveying a jet-setting ‘60s ambiance. The fact...
By Hank Reineke
Blue Underground’s double-feature Blu Ray issue of Code 7… Victim 5 and Mozambique is a generous release considering the company chose to simultaneously issue both films as standalone DVDs. Both films are among the earliest big screen efforts of notorious exploitation producer Harry Alan Towers. Both were adapted from Tower’s own semi-original scenarios (under his usual pseudonym of “Peter Welbeck”) and both were penned by the Australian screenwriter Peter Yeldham with British director Robert Lynn at the helm.
Both men had been working in television and, like Towers, were now gingerly testing the waters of the international movie business. The films, modest thrillers financed by Tower’s UK Company “Towers of London,” nonetheless share a continental roster of technicians and actors. The films are serviceably entertaining as thrillers, but are most ambitious in conveying a jet-setting ‘60s ambiance. The fact...
- 1/30/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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