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Returning home from prison, a Vietnam War veteran sets out to clean up his hometown which has come under the control of a violent motorcycle gang.Returning home from prison, a Vietnam War veteran sets out to clean up his hometown which has come under the control of a violent motorcycle gang.Returning home from prison, a Vietnam War veteran sets out to clean up his hometown which has come under the control of a violent motorcycle gang.
Eric Boles
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- (as Eric Bolles)
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- TriviaYaphet Kotto's red bi-plane has an M-16 with a 30 round magazine tied to each wing strut, with no visible means of activating them from the cockpit.
- GoofsIn the scene with the dead paramedics, the bottom paramedic blinks right before the camera passes by him.
He wasn't pronounced as dead. Clearly he was alive a little bit at that point.
- Quotes
J.B. Deveraux: I'm gonna put this truck right up his ass.
- Alternate versionsGerman version was cut by 22 seconds to remove a few shots of gore, this is done in order to get a "not under 18" rating from the FSK, but nonetheless it still got BPjM indexed anyway. Subsequent German TV airings were similarly shortened for violence reasons. Although despite being removed from the index list back in 2016, only just now in February of 2024 was the uncut version granted a "not under 16" rating.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Zeg 'ns Aaa: Opgeruimd staat netjes (1987)
- SoundtracksEye of the Tiger
Written by Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan
Performed by Survivor
Courtesy of Scotti Brothers Records and Tapes
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Gary Busey plays an ex-nam vet and recently released convict (he is innocent...he was framed) Buck Matthews. He returns home to his family only to find that the town has become over run by a deadly biker gang that sells drugs all over the world. The sheriff has been paid off, so there is no law and the biker's get away with murder (literally!). So when Buck decides to rescue a woman from getting raped by the bikers...the bikers wage a war against him, killing his wife and destroying his home. So Buck decides to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge for this wife and protect the town. It's a pretty simple plot that's fun to watch. The acting is excellent and it is interesting & cool to see Busey play the lead hero for once. The action is decent, with lots of chases and a hand to hand fight scene against the head baddie at the end. The film has good budget and the movie was put together well. The song "Eye of the tiger" is obviously used during the opening credits and at the end when he goes on his vengeance spree. Overall, it was a cool flick that was made cooler by the fact that Busey was the lead action hero. There's a nice decapitation scene in there too.
- ManBehindTheMask63
- Sep 8, 2008
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- Also known as
- Der Tiger
- Filming locations
- Piru, Ventura County, California, USA(Exterior Shots)
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- Budget
- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
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- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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