The Stranger

... that this piece of jiggle/ghost/biker/martial arts exploitation is primarily an uncredited remake of "Once Upon a Time in the West", with a little "High Plaions Drifter" thrown in for good measure.

The soundtrack even quotes Morricine's "Once Upon.." soundtrack.

Proving, once again, that it's not so much the material as the idiot (or genius) who films it.

I caught the last fifteen minutes on satellite some time ago, thought it seemed familiar, and managed to catch the last complete run on that cycle, and sure enough, it was.

If it wasn't so darned expensive -- it was intended for the rental market, not the consumer "seel through" market -- i'd buy a copy just to show to people who would be able to appreciate the sheer effrontery of the people who made this travesty.

And the thought Caesar had gall.

Didn't know there was so much feminist cringe in the 90s, heh. They really abused the straight-to-video scene with bitter garbage like this. It is sad, as straight-to-video should be used as a haven for hidden gems, not as everyone's dumping ground for their own little twisted ideas. At least not too much money and resources were wasted, which I'm glad for. Rather use that for something that improves the world, instead of spreading feminist bitterness 🙂

I watched this movie after stumbling across it on late night cable.I'd never heard of Kathy Long.It was immediately obvious that she was not only a real athlete,but a real martial artist.She didn't look like the typical straight-to-video actress/model pretending to throw punches.She could obviously mop up the floor with Cynthia Rothrock.As far as the content of the movie goes,if you expected Citizen Cane,you were probably disappointed.I saw exactly what I expected from a low budget martial arts movie.There was lots of ass-kicking and other forms of gratuitous bloodletting.Kathy Long pulled it off.Actresses in Hollywood are a dime a dozen,but Kathy Long combines the good looks and martial arts skills that made Jean-Claud VanDamm a star.If her acting skills are lacking,take a good look at Arnold,Chuck Norris,and Dolph Lundrgren.

Plot sounded entertaining but the cast simply could not pull off a potentially entertaining script. If Kathy Long and Brian Bosworth ever appear together, that film possibly could rate worse that this C film! Terrible waste of time.

Forget Diana Rigg, Cynthia Rothrock, Karen Sheperd, the two Lucindas (Dooling and Dickey) and even Jillian Kesner. Kathy Long is the toughest of them all, and this is her great film. She kills bad guy after bad guy in "The Stranger," most of them with her bare hands, and just looking at her swagger and those unbelievably powerful arms of hers, you know she could do absolutely anything she wanted with you in real life. ("Are you going to kill me or make love to me?" one man asks her. "I'll let you know," Kathy replies.) No wonder this film is selling for so much on EBay: for those susceptible to this kind of fantasy, it doesn't get much better than "The Stranger."