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Man of Violence (aka Moon) (Blu-ray) [Region Free]
| Format | PAL |
| Contributor | Jack Allen, Pete Walker, Sebastian Breaks, Virginia Wetherell, Roy Stone, Douglas Blackwell, Jane Howard, Derek Aylward, Erika Raffael, Nicholas Hawtrey, Julie Shaw See more |
| Language | English |
| Runtime | 1 hour and 38 minutes |
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British crime drama in which a soldier of fortune becomes involved with some bent cops searching for missing gold bullion. British mercenary Moon (Michael Latimer) finds himself hired by crooked cops Nixon (Derek Aylward) and Burgess (George Belbin) as they try to get their hands on over 30 million pounds worth of stolen Arab gold, stashed away somewhere in Britain. But violence and treachery soon follow as rival gangsters, along with a sadistic murderer, home in on the prize.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Package Dimensions : 18.03 x 13.76 x 1.48 cm; 83.16 Grams
- Manufacturer reference : 5035673010273
- Director : Pete Walker
- Media Format : PAL
- Run time : 1 hour and 38 minutes
- Release date : 24 Aug. 2009
- Actors : Sebastian Breaks, Nicholas Hawtrey, Virginia Wetherell, Jack Allen, Derek Aylward
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : BFI DVD
- ASIN : B002EAKWCK
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: 158,577 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)
- 22,295 in Action & Adventure (DVD & Blu-ray)
- 42,892 in Blu-ray
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It verges on being categorized as that hallmark of late-sixties/early seventies film-making, a sexploitation film. But its production values raise it a bit above that, and there is probably not enough nudity to rank as sexploitation. But there is a very pleasing amount of attractive skin.
Leading the cast is young Michael Latimer, who you may recognize from The Avengers '67. He was a villain in an episode called 'Positive Negative Man' which also required him, as a conductor of a killing amount of electricity, to appear shirtless. Diana Rigg commented that his pecs weren't developed enough, but they are very pleasing, none-the-less. He was the quintessential 70's star: young, attractive, lean and lightly built, self-possessed. He also starred in Prehistoric Women with Martine Beswick and, for several seasons, on the police series Van der Valk, where he played it much straighter.
Latimer plays a victim here. After a one-night stand with a beautiful woman -- and, right off the bat, a good excuse to take his shirt off -- he is persuaded she is dead, and a gang blackmails him into helping them break a kingpin out of prison.
It's fun, and full of 70's fashions and colors. And, of course, the very pretty Michael Latimer.
Thanks to BFI for bringing the fun Flipside films out. They would have been neglected otherwise.
Dodgy businessmen after gold ?
No-one can tell what's happening . . !
Hedonism is rampant, and Luan Peters - who you may recall getting accidentally pawed by Basil Fawlty's mucky hands - is a dish, but 'Man of Violence' is a dreary, talky burden.
You can see what director Pete Walker was trying to do . . you just wish he hadn't done it!
Tho the screen ratio is impossible to get right on my BR player, the BFI transfer is a credit, but it only serves to cast a veneer over the overt dullness.
There's a very hot lady disco-dancing at the top of 'Big Switch', who gets herself shot straight away and ends any interest.
The stripper everyone seems to be going on about is very fine, very moving, but her routine is dud. At one stage, she lashes herself with what looks like a cobweb-duster to 'Mutiny on the Bounty'-style whip-cracks on the soundtrack, summing up the film's phoniness in a few seconds' red light grotesquerie.
Shot hot girl reappears! A plot 'twist'. O joy!
And wait'll you see 'Gerry' - a Leslie Phillips-type in a PINK!! Winchester shirt - as unthreatening a villain as we've seen, yet who's daywear is pleasing respite from the scratchy story and vapid, un-erotic nudity.
And Brighton settings were better used in 'Carry On At Your Convenience'.
All this, of course, is the 'Alternative Export Cut' (!) of 'Big Switch' (which is what someone should have taken to it!). As well as other bits and boobs, I'd imagine Flagellation Flo and her duster have hit the cutting room floor in the also included - tho God knows why - 'Domestic Version'.




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