Killer Force (1976) on Netflix
R19761h 42mActionCrimeThriller
Harry Webb, head of security at a desert diamond mine, fears a theft is coming. Nelson, the mine administrator, gives security man Mike Bradley a strange order: steal a diamond himself.
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Plot summary
Head of company security, Harry Webb, fears that a diamond theft is about to take place at their major mining complex deep in the desert. He quickly manages to become very unpopular, particularly with Claire Chambers, a celebrated cover girl, daughter of the mine administrator. She is visiting the man she loves, Mike Bradley, who is responsible for security at the mine. Nelson, the mine administrator, gives Bradley a curious mission - to steal a diamond. He wants to implicate Bradley in order to bring him into contact with a certain Lewis who is preparing to rob the mine with the aid of a group of mercanaries and a local accessory known as Father Christmas. Webb, not being informed of the deceit, relentlessly pursues Bradley, who is contacted by Lewis. With the mercanaries in the process of penetrating the mine. Bradley reveals himself to be Father Christmas, the organiser of the entire operation. With Webb in pursuit, Bradley flees into the desert with the only other survivors - Lewis and Clair.
Cast
- Frank Shelleyas Pop Keller
- Peter van Disselas Rick(Peter van Dissell)
- Marina Christelisas Danielle
- Michael Mayeras Paul Adams
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Killer Force (1976)
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- Peter Fonda refused to come on location until the blender he had asked for arrived, forcing the crew to fly one in from Windhoek; Telly Savalas could not stand him and called him "the amateur".
- Director Val Guest said he was paid no more than $100,000 by producer Nat Wachsberger and had to sue him; Guest said the film made a fortune, which Wachsberger spent on a round-the-world cruise with his wife.
- Val Guest shot the desert scenes in Swakopmund, Namibia, on dunes he said had never been filmed before, with the cast and crew helicoptered in each morning and their food flown in.
- The film started from an original script by Michael Winder that Val Guest called not very good, and Guest rewrote it with the American writer Gerald Sanford.
