Tiger Joe (film)

1982 film

Tiger Joe (Italian: Fuga dall'arcipelago maledetto) is a 1982 Italian adventure film written and directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring David Warbeck, Annie Belle and Tony King.^[1][2][3]

Plot

Tiger Joe is a former US Army Special Forces Vietnam Veteran now gunrunning to anti-Khmer Rouge freedom fighters. When his plane is shot down, Tiger Joe joins a female rebel in her fight.

Cast

• David Warbeck as Joe "Tiger Joe"
• Annie Belle as Kia
• Tony King as "Midnight" Washington
• Alan Collins as Lenny
• Giancarlo Badessi as Bronski

Production

Cinematographer Riccardo Pallottini died in a helicopter crash during production.^[4]

See also

• List of Italian films of 1982

References

1. Ben Cobb. "Jungle fever: ‘The last hunter’" in Search & destroy. Creation Books, 2003. Chapter. 4, pp. 57-63.
2. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 2000. pp. 271–2. ISBN 8877424230.
3. Kim Worthy. "Tiger Joe" in Vietnam War Feature Filmography: An Encyclopedic Reference of Imaginative Films about Vietnam. J.-J. Malo, 1992. pp. 391-2.
4. Margheriti and The Last Hunter Documentary, 2007. Last accessed: September 2008.

External links

• Tiger Joe at IMDb
• Tiger Joe at Variety Distribution