Jungle Raiders (1985 film)

Jungle Raiders
MGM/UA VHS Cover Art
Directed by	Antonio Margheriti (as Anthony M. Dawson)
Written by	Giovanni Simonelli
Starring	Christopher Connelly Lee Van Cleef Marina Costa
Music by	Cal Taormina
Cinematography	Guglielmo Mancori
Edited by	Alberto Moriani
Distributed by	Cannon Films
Release dates	1985 (1985)
Running time	95 mins
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Jungle Raiders, also known as Captain Yankee (in original Italian, La leggenda del rubino malese) is a 1985 Cannon Film. This film by Antonio Margheriti stars Christopher Connelly and Lee Van Cleef. The film was the third of three films Antonio Margheriti made in which he attempted to copy the success of Raiders of the Lost Ark (the first films he made were Hunters of the Golden Cobra and Ark of the Sun God).^[1]

Plot

Captain Yankee played by Christopher Connelly and his friend make a living by selling fake adventure dreams to rich foreigners. With the help of some natives they let their rich clients think to have lived fantastic adventures. One day a Colombian museum director arrives to search for a fabulous "ruby of doom" and Captain Yankee is black mailed into accepting the task.^[2]

Cast

Christopher Connelly ... Captain Yankee
Lee Van Cleef ... Warren
Marina Costa ... Maria Janez
Luciano Pigozzi ... Gin Fizz (as Alan Collins)
Dario Pontonutti
Mike Monty
Rene Abadeza ... Alain

Production

After watching Raiders of the Lost Ark, director Antonio Margheriti was so impressed that he was inspired to recreate adventure films like it for the Italian market. His first feature films to do this were Hunters of the Golden Cobra and Ark of the Sun God with Jungle Raiders being his third. Cannon Films agreed to finance Jungle Raiders and it would be the third of five films the company produced that was inspired by Indiana Jones. The American poster art even went so far as to use the same font for the title as Raiders of the Lost Ark.^[1]

Releases

The film was released on VHS by MGM for a brief period in 1985. It has not yet been released on DVD.

References

1 2 Margheriti and The Last Hunger Documentary, 2007. Last accessed: September 2008.
↑ Jungle Raiders VHS box art

External links

Jungle Raiders at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Antonio Margheriti

Space-Men (1960)
Battle of the Worlds (1961)
The Golden Arrow (1962)
The Fall of Rome (1963)
The Virgin of Nuremberg (1963)
Castle of Blood (1964)
Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules (1964)
Hercules, Prisoner of Evil (1964)
Giants of Rome (1964)
The Long Hair of Death (1964)
Wild, Wild Planet (1965)
War of the Planets (1966)
War Between the Planets (1966)
Snow Devils (1965)
Lightning Bolt (1966)
Bob Fleming... Mission Casablanca (1966)
Dynamite Joe (1967)
The Young, the Evil and the Savage (1968)
Io ti amo (1968)
Vengeance (1968)
The Unnaturals (1969)
Mr. Superinvisible (1970)
And God Said to Cain (1970)
Web of the Spider (1971)
House of 1,000 Pleasures (1972)
Treasure Island (1972)
Novelle galeotte d'amore (1972)
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye (1973)
Mr. Hercules Against Karate (1973)
The Stranger and the Gunfighter (1974)
Take a Hard Ride (1975)
The Rip-Off (1975)
Death Rage (1976)
Killer Fish (1978)
Fantasma en el Oeste (1978)
Cannibal Apocalypse (1980)
The Last Hunter (1980)
Car Crash (1981)
Hunters of the Golden Cobra (1982)
Tiger Joe (1982)
The Ark of the Sun God (1983)
Yor, the Hunter from the Future (1983)
Last Blood (1983)
Code Name: Wild Geese (1984)
Jungle Raiders (1985)
Commando Leopard (1985)
Treasure Island in Outer Space (1987)
The Commander (1988)
Alien From the Deep (1989)
Indio (1989)
Indio 2: The Revolt (1991)
Genghis Khan: The Story of a Lifetime (1993)
Virtual Weapon (1997)

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