An even more inept thriller than usual, ACTION STATIONS comes to us courtesy of B-picture producer E. J. Fancey. Fancey left his name off the credits so even he must have been embarrassed by this one. The storyline is about a couple of small-time smugglers who get involved with a kidnapping plot in which the daughter of a forger is taken prisoner by a gang of crooks.
ACTION STATIONS is set in Spain, which looks and feels very cheap. Most of it is set on small enclosed sets like a boat or the interior of the villain's hideout. I was bemused by the look of the characters; there's a random guy with hat and bicycle whose identity remains a mystery until the end, and one of the chief villains has impossibly broad shoulders, huge hair and no neck to speak of.
The hero of the piece is the erstwhile Paul Carpenter, balding and laconic as ever, and he's given powerful support in the form of former wrestler Joe Robinson (FIGHTING MAD), who, true to form, gets to throw a couple of goons around. The whole film gives off the impression it was shot silently with the dialogue dubbed in afterwards in post production. Ronald Leigh Hunt has a minor role. It's rubbish.
