USA, 1976
88m
35mm film, colour
mono, English
An American action film with some fantasy and science fiction elements directed by Al Adamson.
Plot Summary
D.R.A.G.O.N. agent Robert Sand (aka The Black Samurai) is asked to kill Janikan, the leader of a voodoo worshipping slave cult. He accepts only when he learns that his girlfriend Tokai has been kidnapped by the cult and will only be released in exchange or the revolutionary new ‘freeze bomb’.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Al Adamson
© 1976 by BJLJ International Corp.
BJLJ International Corp presents
Executive Producer: Laurence Joachim
Produced by: Barbara Holden
Assistant to the Producer: Eddie Garetti
Associate Producer: John ‘Bud’ Cardos|John Bud Cardos
Screenplay by: B. Readick
Based on the Novel by: Marc Olden
Additional Story Ideas: Marco Joachim
Script Girl: Pam Eddy
Director of Photography: Louis Horvath
Assistant Cameraman: Keith Kelsey
Electricians: John Gillie, Steve Posey
Grips: Erwin Fuller, John Tilton, Robert McClure, Bill Boyne, Robert Reynolds
Film Editor: Jim Landis
Assistant Editor: Joanne Small
Music Editor: Jim Landis
Music Recording: Jodd Readick
Sound: Dick Damien
Sound Effects Editor: Marta Viana
Assistant Effects Editor: Joan Franklin
Mixer: Jack Cooley
Wardrobe: Edwin Goehring Jr
Marilyn Joi’s Costumes: Marilyn Joi
Make-up: Melanie Levitt
Titles: Ramon Ferro
Set Decoration: Daisy Rieger
Props: Michael Bockman, Nancy McDonald
Haitian Voodoo Research: Ray Wells
Locations: Haiti *; Hong Kong, China *; Mission Inn, Riverside, California, USA *
The producers wish to thank Bell Aerospace Company a division of Textron and Williams Research Corporation for their courtesy and cooperation
Jim Kelly Karate Fight Sequences Staged by: Jim Kelly
Additional Fight Sequences Staged by: Jace Khan
Stunts Performed by: The Jim Kelly Stuntman Association, Ray Davis, Alfonzo Walters, Alvin Bourdreaux, Cliff Lawson, George Griffen, Charles Crawford, Jerry Mitchell, Fernando Lujan
Cast
Jim Kelly as the Black Samurai [end titles] (Robert Sand – end titles)
Bill Roy (Janicot)
Marilyn Joi (Synne)
Essie Lin Chia (Toki Konuma)
Roberto Contreras (Chavez)
Biff Yeager (Pines)
Charles Grant (Bone)
Jace Khan (Jace)
Erwin Fuller (bodyguard)
Peter Dane (Farnsworth)
Felix Silla (Rheinhardt)
Cowboy Lang (himself)
Little Tokyo (himself)
Jerry Marin (Shotgun Spiro)
Alfonso Walters, Charles Walter Johnson (leopard men)
Jesus Thillet, Cliff Bowen (martial arts fighters)
Alternative Titles
Black Terminator
The Freeze Bomb
References
Periodicals
- Sight and Sound vol.30 no.8 (October 2020) p.84 – review (Home cinema: Al Adamson: The Masterpiece Collection by Kim Newman)
Books
- Creature Features Movie Guide Strikes Again by John Stanley p.45 – credits, review
- Schlock-o-rama: The Films of Al Adamson by David Konow pp.129-130 – illustrated article
