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Showing posts with label 1986. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1986. Show all posts

Saturday, January 20, 2018

Revenge (1986)




























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A peace-loving family man moves to a vacant farm in search of a new life. His hopes are shattered when his son is badly beaten and his wife is murdered by a gang of ruthless thugs. He is left bloody in the dirt until fate finally intervenes. Rescued and nursed back to health by a good samaritan living alone in the hills, something is amiss. The hermit is soon revealed to be a reformed gangster – a deadly gunslinger who trains the man and sets him on a path of preparation to exact his revenge upon his wife’s murderers.

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Hostage (1986)















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Businessman Ben is an upstanding citizen happily in a comitted relationship to his wife Thuli. So when Bra Jack and his two underlings, Jabu and Thabi, decide to blackmail Ben in the hopes of using one of his warehouses in the harbour to store a shipment of drugs coming in soon, Ben refuses to cooperate. But the situation complicates when the crooks kidnap Ben's beloved Thuli. Our hero turns to his friend, Michael, and together they hatch a daring rescue plan with thrilling results.
 

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Busted Up (1986)



















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Earl Bird is fighting to save his neighborhood, his family, and himself from the tightening grip of hoodlums who threaten to overpower his world. He's been a "round ring" boxer to support and raise his daughter, the only tender spot in his life. Aside from her, nothing else has ever meant much to Bird. But now, even she isn't safe from the corrupt local frontman who is systematically squeezing the local tenants out of their homes and business.