Rez Cortez Movies

In this fast-paced action thriller, an American cop is forced to rely on the man he has sworn to destroy when both are chained together and lost in the Central American jungle. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

This movie is an interweaving of several true events into a coherent story line which was intended to point out the inherent corruption in the government of the Philippines at all different levels. Delayed by censors while they tried to find a way to keep the movie from being released, eventually some sex scenes from Manila's live sex shows were cut and the film allowed out. It wasn't until the furor the movie caused at the Cannes Film Festival that the government realized how critical the movie was of the current regime and arrested Brocka. He was later released. The movie takes a strike that paralyzed Manila, the kidnapping of a businessman and the shoot-out between the kidnappers and police, all true events, and winds them into a coherent story that ably shows the corruption prevalent in the Manila governmental system. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide

Comic actor Dolphy here plays Brutus, a poor country bumpkin with a yen for Lora (Gloria Diaz), a glamorous movie star. One of her movies is shot in his own poor section of town, and he sees her in the flesh. His desire for her is increased by this apparition, and he decides to get rich in order to be worthy of her. This is just what he does after discovering oil. Now determined to produce a movie with her in it, she is equally determined not to encourage him improperly just to get his money. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide