Friday 11 June 2010

MISSION INFERNO (Korea, 1984)





Incredibly boring Korean war movie (from Joseph Lai). On very, very rare Danish sell-thru. Fullscreen & dubbed in English. A few years ago I bought a copy of the Indo war movie DAREDEVIL COMMANDO (starring Barry Prima) only to discover this turkey was inside the case! :-/
Trust me, this film is so boring I'd rather break off an arm and drink my own blood than have to watch it again!
Fortunately, I later found the real DAREDEVIL COMMANDO tape!

5 comments:

  1. Jack, Mission Inferno IS NOT a Godfrey Ho movie, it is just a korean war movie that was bought by Joseph Lai for its release in the international video markets. Godfrey Ho only supervised the english dialogs from the original source & the edition work.

    There are another similar titles like Xylem of Cannonade, Sky Crusaders...etc
    They are korean productions that tried to imitate those japanese war movies about WW2.

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  2. Thanks, JM! Like I said, I got that piece of info from a French site (or actually TWO French sites) and obviously they didn't know what they were talking about (well, neither was I, haha). Thanks, I'll correct it.

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  3. If you have more info (any info) about the movies I would certainly appreciate it. Cheers.

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  4. The war scenes are taken from Seol Bong's 1977 "The Last Days of Dosol Mountain" (http://www.kmdb.or.kr/eng/vod/vod_basic.asp?nation=K&p_dataid=03190), while the action segment comes from Lee Hyeok-su's 1981: "Kim Du-han and Lot 1 of Seodaemun" (http://www.kmdb.or.kr/eng/vod/vod_basic.asp?nation=K&p_dataid=03554) A handful of shots was also lifted from "Guns of Victory".

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