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Master of the World  Production Year

Hundreds of thousands of years ago man was forced to fight for everything he had and desired to keep. Food, a place to live, women, or just simply surviving another day, it all had to be earned. In the midst of the dawn of man we meet Bok, a man who is simply trying to find the place where he belongs. After nearly dying due to some severely infected injuries a young girl from a less advanced tribe stays with him to nurse him back to health. They bond and begin to travel together across the mountains and plains. Again and again they meet up with vicious foes that would like nothing better than to decapitate our heroes! Soon the two travelers become three and a different kind of attraction between Bok and his new companion begins to manifest. Lots of problems and obstacles are left as Bok and his friends look for a home, a people, a purpose, and if the chance presents itself, revenge. Master of the World is a surprisingly good movie. Beautiful locations and cinematography are necessary successes for a movie such as this and both are achieved. Aside from the impressive look is the tangible sense of desperation, the electronic soundtrack is very cool and the graphic effects you’ll see peppered throughout the running time (designed by Rosario Prestopino) are damn convincing! Those fake heads are some of the best we have seen around here in a long time! The bear-fighting scenes are also worth mentioning. Terrific entertainment is abundant to be sure! Now you can enjoy this very rare movie totally uncut and in the widescreen format! The only dialogue in Master of the World is the narration that opens the film and it’s presented in English.

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Miami Cops  (1989)

The story begins when two partners who are staking out the docks for smuggler activity end up in a life threatening gun battle. Just when one of them gets the upper hand, the other arrives to shoot everybody (including his partner) and keep all the drugs and cash for himself! Five years later the son of that officer who was betrayed has joined the force and requests the narcotics division in an attempt to find the one responsible for the death of his father. He is paired up with a cop nicknamed P.O. (That stands for Pissed Off – Played by Richard Roundtree.) who’s reluctant, to say the least, to take on a rookie partner. The new guy, Robert, slowly proves himself as the two would-be heroes follow a trail of heroin all the way to the top dog himself, the criminal ex-cop who did Robert’s father in! If Robert and P.O. have anything to say about it, this traitorous villain will pay the highest price possible for the wrongs he has done! At first glance this may seem like just another cash-in and little else. The truth is that Miami Cops is a pretty cool movie with a great car chase, some serious ass kicking (it’s always cool to watch Roundtree bust some heads), and a few surprisingly graphic moments of violence in the final reels! Watch for the chainsaw scene specifically! (Paolo Ricci provides the effects.) Though it can’t be referred to as a classic by any stretch of the imagination (even some of the calmer music is lifted from the Shocking Dark soundtrack), Miami Cops is still a lot of action-packed fun!

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Blood, Sweat and Fear  (1975)

A classic! Gasparri owns the role of Mark Terzi, a cop from the Dirty Harry school of thinking. Inspector Terzi has been working a long time on a case that has led him close to the top narcotics handlers in Milan. The problem is that he can’t break the case open by conventional methods so he begins to handle things his way. When Terzi starts making notable progress very bad things begin to happen to the people around him. Also, he has a young woman named Irena at his apartment that he essentially rescued near the top of the film. She was high on heroin and in shock when the police arrived while the guy she started out with floats in the pool, murdered via the introduction of some tainted drugs. Irena is also indirectly connected to what Terzi is involved with and that leads to yet more trouble. Cobb is the bad man at the top and he has no intention of letting any fired-up inspector stand in the way of his investments! There’s a lot more to it, but we won’t ruin it here. The Narc is a true high-point in the Italian crime genre. It features blazing action, intense drama, biting suspense, plenty of serious ass kicking, a top-of-the-line musical score courtesy of Maestro Stelvio Cipriani, and some impressively stylistic direction from Stelvio Massi. A new favorite around here for all these reasons and more… One exceptional highlight (of many); Terzi unloads his magnum into a carload of bank robbers as they try to make their escape, when the car loses control and is flipped it begins to slide down the street towards our hero who simply steps aside and watches the wreckage go by! Fantastic!