| GENERAL
DATA |
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| other
titles |
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Escuadrón
Escuadrón:
Counterforce
Dreptate fara lege
Testörkommandó |
| catch
phrases |
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• In
a world of danger there is only one solution
•
Sie sind präzise wie ein Uhrwerk und tödlich wie eine
Bombe |
| release
category |
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big-screen-movie |
| genre |
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action/drama |
| length |
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98 minutes
90 minutes 37 seconds (video version, UK)
100/89 minutes (German TV-premiere)
1 minute 15 seconds (video trailer, UK) |
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theatrical
release
certificate |
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USA:
certificate 'R'
Germany: FSK 'ab 16', also seen rated as 'ab 18'
UK: September 30, 1988, video, uncut, certificate '15'
UK: February 11, 1988, video trailer, uncut, Certificate 'PG' |
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| release
dates |
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USA - 1987
• West-Germany - May 12, 1988
• UK - September 30, 1988 - video
• Germany - October 5, 1988 - video
• USA - January 21, 1991 - video release #1
• USA - January 1, 1998 - video release #2
• Germany - October 29, 1992 - German TV premiere,
channel SAT 1 |
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| PRODUCTION |
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| country
of production |
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USA,
Mexico, Spain |
| production |
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Golden
Sun/Elspor |
| executive
producer |
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Carlos
Vasallo |
| screenplay |
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Douglas
Borton,
Carlos Vasallo |
| music |
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Joel
Goldsmith |
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| action
scenes |
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stunt
coordinator: Alain
Petit |
| cinematography |
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Juan
Gelpí |
| distribution |
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Artisan
Entertainment (VHS, USA, 1989)
International Video Entertainment, IVE (VHS, USA, 1996)
Avid Home Entertainment (VHS, USA, 1998)
Medusa Communications Ltd (VHS, UK, 1988)
Image Video (VHS, Italy, 1988)
Ufa (VHS, Germany)
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| filming
location |
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| DIRECTOR |
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José Antonio
de la Loma |
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| CAST |
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Simón
Andreu (Commissioner)
Kevin Bernhardt (Sutherland, Counterforce-member)
Susana Dosamantes (Roxana, Kassar's wife)
Robert Forster (an Arab Dictator)
Isaac Hayes (Ballard, Counterforce-member)
Louis Jourdan (Kassar)
George Kennedy (Vince Colby, Counterforce-boss)
Robert Millar (Baines)
Josep Minguell (Selim)
Betty Moran (TV Newscaster)
Jorge Rivero (Harris, Counterforce-member)
Enrique Rubio (Hasson)
Noel J. Samson (Gammal)
Andrew Stevens (Nash, Counterforce-member)
Hugo Stiglitz (The Blond, hitman)
Jordi Torras (Mohumar)
Nancy Venables (Mohumar's girl friend) |
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MORE
PICTURES |
| KABIR
BEDI DETAILS |
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| Kabir's
part |
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Kabir stars
as "Koura", a mafia boss. |
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| Kabir's
showstopper |
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| Andrea's review |
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| YUM! |
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| EEK! |
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| tv
broadcasts |
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want
to see Kabir in
it? check TV listings of Kabir's
work - current/archives |
| not
to be confused with |
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...Martin
Kunert's action thriller Counterforce (1998), also known as Renegade
Force, starring Michael Rooker. |
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| LINKS |
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| official
website |
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| trailers |
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| reviews |
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| other
related links |
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• Biographie
et filmographie de José Antonio de la Loma |
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| INFORMATION -
QUICK BITS |
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| INFORMATION -
GENERAL INFORMATION |
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| INFORMATION -
PEOPLE |
• George
Kennedy also stars alongside Kabir in
the TV movie THE
ARCHER.FUGITIVE FROM THE EMPIRE (1981).
• George Kennedy was born in
1925 in New York City.
• George Kennedy has four adopted
children.
• George Kennedy enlisted
in the American army for many years. He is a World War
II veteran, as an officer he served under General
George S. Patton.
• George Kennedy worked in
more than 200 TV and film productions.
• George Kennedy started out in
TV westerns, by the end of the Sixties he had a busy
film career.
• His part in the western Cool Hand
Luke (1967) earned George
Kennedy an
Oscar™.
• Some of George Kennedy's film
hits: the John Wayne western The Sons of Katie Elder
(1965),
The Flight of the Phoenix
(1965,
starring James Stewart) The Dirty Dozen (1967),
Airport (1970), Earthquake (1974), The Naked Gun: From
the Files
of Police Squad! (1988, co-star Leslie Nielsen),
and Naked Gun sequels.
• Louis Jourdan also stars together
with Kabir in
the James Bond thriller OCTOPUSSY (1983) and in the documentary
INSIDE OCTOPUSSY (2000).
• Louis Jourdan was born in
1919 in Marseille, France.
• Louis Jourdan's son committed
suicide in 1981.
• Louis Jourdan's debut film
is Marc Allégret's Le Corsaire (1939, starring
Charles Boyer).
• When his father was arrested by the Gestapo
during
World War II,
Louis
Jourdan and his
two
brothers
joined the French
Résistance.
• Louis Jourdan's career came
to a halt when he refused to act in Nazi propaganda
films.
• Director David O. Selznick invited him in 1948
to Hollywood where Louis Jourdan enjoyed
a long and successful career.
• Among Louis Jourdan's many
film hits are: Max Ophüls' Letter
from an Unknown Woman (1948), Vincente Minnelli's Madame
Bovary
(1949), Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), The Swan
(1956, starring Grace Kelly), Vincente Minnelli's
musical Gigi (1958, starring Maurice Chevalier),
Walter Lang's Can-Can
(1960, starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine),
Le Comte de Monte Cristo (1961, lead),
The V.I.P.s (1963,
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton).
• Louis Jourdan performed several
songs in the musicals Gigi (1958) and Can-Can (1960).
• Robert Forster was born 1941
in the state of New York,
USA, moved in 1965 to New
York
City and performed in theatre plays. His movie debut
was a small part in Reflections in
a Golden
Eye
(starring
Elizabeth
Taylor and Marlon Brando) in 1967.
• Robert Forster has worked
as a motivational speaker and an acting coach in Hollywood
film schools.
• Robert Forster also once worked
as a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman.
• Robert
Forster had a comeback in Quentin
Tarantino's Jackie Brown (1997). Forster had to audition
seven hours for the part which would earn him
an Academy Award nomination.
• Noted composer, musician, singer, actor, and
human rights campaigner Isaac
Hayes (nick name The Black Moses) is from
Tennessee, USA.
• Arguably Isaac Hayes' most
famous soundtrack composition is the title track for
Gordon Parks' Harlem thriller Shaft
(1971) which earned him an Academy Award.
• Among the world hits of Isaac
Hayes are: "Soul Man", "Hold
on, I'm coming", "When
Something Is Wrong with My Baby".
• Isaac Hayes filed for bankruptcy
in 1976.
• Isaac Hayes is since 2002 a
member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
since 2005
of the
Songwriters
Hall of Fame.
• Andrew Stephens was born in
1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
• Andrew Stephens is the son
of actress Stella Stevens.
• Andrew Stephens was married
for several months to popular actress Kate Jackson.
Kate Jackson is widely known for her starring roles
in both the TV series Charlie's
Angels (from 1976) and Scarecrow and Mrs.
King (from 1983).
• Andrew Stephens appeared in
a few episodes of the TV series Dallas (1976) in the
late Eighties.
• Apart from being an actor, Andrew Stephens also works
as an author, as director and since the Nineties mainly as a producer.
• Susana Dosamantes was born
in 1948 in Mexico City. Her daughter is the Mexican
pop star Paulina Rubio.
• Susana Dosamantes starred alongside Jorge
Rivero in the Howard
Hawks western Rio Lobo (1970).
• Jorge Rivero was also born
in Mexico City (1938) and is making films since 1965.
• Jorge Rivero has lived in
Southern California for more than ten years.
• Jorge Rivero is married to
Betty Moran, his co-star in Counterforce.
• Betty Moran made her first
movie in 1939. However, she went on to star in less
than ten films since.
• Betty Moran has a part alongside
her husband Jorge Rivero and Robert
Forster, another Counterforce
co-star, in Guns and Lipstick (1995).
• Hugo Stiglitz, too,
was born in Mexico City, in 1940, and made more than
165 - mostly Spanish-language
- movies up to now.
• Hugo Stiglitz had a part
in John Huston's Under the Volcano
(1984).
• Director José Antonio de la Loma was
born in Barcelona, Spain, on March 4, 1924. He died
there on April 6, 2004.
• José Antonio de la Loma studied
at Barcelona university and joined the film business
in the 50s.
• José Antonio de la Loma won
the literature award of the city of Barcelona for his
first novel Sin la sonrisa de dios
(1949) which was made into a movie in 1955.
• José Antonio de la Loma directed
and wrote film scripts for thrillers, adventure- and
sword-movies, and swashbucklers, among them Harald
Reinl's The Last of the Mohicans (1965), The Wild Men
of Kurdistan (1965, starring Lex Barker and Marie
Versini), Fury of the Sabers
(1965, also starring Lex Barker and Marie Versini),
Surcouf, The Fighting Corsair (1966),
Target Frankie (1967), Samtpfötchen dreht
sein letztes Ding (1968, starring Gila von Weitershausen),
Carrera.The Secret of the Blonde Cat (1968).
• Up into his 70s, José Antonio
de la Loma continued to direct films and to
work as a script writer.
• Composer Joel
Goldsmith is composer Jerry Goldsmith's son. |
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