Made on a tiny budget (something like $185k), this movie rocks, in every sense, especially the Music Machine's Sean Bonniwell rock score. Based out of Lake Havasu City, the film manages to completely avoid including the London Bridge in any scene, which was opened about five months after this movie wrapped production.
Egan shows his credentials as a great actor by effortlessly dominating the film, aided by a taught, well-written screenplay and great action direction by indie filmmaker Ferde Grofe Jr.
Sean Bonniwell's score is an excellent and punchy rock score that lifts the movie to a new level, produced at Original Sound Studios on Sunset and using the band Green.
I'm biased about how great this little film is - I made a documentary and wrote a book about it, but it's a film that deserves a look. A 2021 review here suggests that the film wasn't made on 35mm - it certainly was, but the versions in circulation are usually lousy condition 16mm prints.
Several members of the crew went onto greater things following this film (Peter MacGregor Scott produced Batman and Fugitive movies, Calmar Roberts and Michael Scott both worked on notable films into the 2000's.
Egan shows his credentials as a great actor by effortlessly dominating the film, aided by a taught, well-written screenplay and great action direction by indie filmmaker Ferde Grofe Jr.
Sean Bonniwell's score is an excellent and punchy rock score that lifts the movie to a new level, produced at Original Sound Studios on Sunset and using the band Green.
I'm biased about how great this little film is - I made a documentary and wrote a book about it, but it's a film that deserves a look. A 2021 review here suggests that the film wasn't made on 35mm - it certainly was, but the versions in circulation are usually lousy condition 16mm prints.
Several members of the crew went onto greater things following this film (Peter MacGregor Scott produced Batman and Fugitive movies, Calmar Roberts and Michael Scott both worked on notable films into the 2000's.