Michael Monty Movies
The ghosts of two daring pilots help a troubled young girl in this fantasy for the family. In 1927, a pair of French air aces, Charles Nungesser (Lothaire Bluteau) and Francois Coli (Michel Monty) hop into a single-engine biplane and take off for New York City with the intention of becoming the first pilots to cross the Atlantic non-stop. However, they fail to arrive in New York and are never heard from again. 70 years later, 12-year-old Katie Penhallow (Juliana Wimbles) and her brother are sent to Newfoundland to visit their grandmother, Lydia (Marsha Mason). Both Katie and her brother have had a difficult time dealing with the death of their father, a pilot who lost his life while testing a plane several years before. One night, while exploring at a pond near Grandmother's house, Katie encounters Nungesser and Coli, who look remarkably alive and healthy for two men who have been dead for seven decades. The flyboys tell Katie they are actually the spirits of the lost aviators, and they will not be able to rest until they can rescue their wrecked aircraft from the pond. While Katie has a hard time convincing anyone of what she saw, for the first time since her father's death she has a focus and purpose in life that takes her mind off her feelings about her dad. Shown on premium cable in the United States under the title Restless Spirits, Dead Aviators was shown under its original title in 1999 at Sprockets, the Toronto Film Festival for Children, and on CBC television in Canada. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lothaire Bluteau, Michael Monty, (more)
In this low-budget, straight-to-video war drama, a Pentagon advisor working in a South American country suddenly finds his sympathies shifting toward the rebel cause when he realizes that some of the atrocities going on in the conflict-torn country are being perpetrated by his own countrymen in disguise. When he first finds out about the covert activities, he protests, but that only gets him tortured by his men. He then becomes a full-fledged renegade and begins secretly training a guerilla force to fight back. Poorly executed violence ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1991
- R
In this low-budget Italian actioner, the dogs of war do their thing in the steamy, dangerous jungles of Vietnam. Much of the loosely structured, episodic tale is about the black market activities that the US government knew were going on, but carefully chose to ignore. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Clive Wood, Baird Stafford, (more)
- 1989
In this sequel to the 1987 actioner Black Cobra, Fred Williamson resumes his role as a tough-as-nails urban detective. The villain is a terrorist who'll kill anyone who impedes his escape. The terrorist breaks into a schoolroom full of children and holds the kids hostage. It's up to Williamson -- now saddled with an unwanted partner -- to eliminate the bad guy without taking the kids with him. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1988
- PG
The wasted, post-nuclear holocaust Earth is the sight of this sci-fi adventure that chronicles the epic fight for survival between the mutant Tyrogs and the radiation-free Drones. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lou Ferrigno, Shari Shattuck, (more)
- 1987
- R
A special forces unit is sent to Vietnam to combat a group of renegade rebels made up of POW and MIA in this limp war drama. Sergeant Rick Stratton (Brett Clark) is reluctantly teamed with reporter Chris Chandler (Cec Verrell) to head off the rampaging rebels from continuing their unauthorized, murderous rampages. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brett Baxter Clark, Robert Patrick, (more)
- 1987
In this actioner, a pair of ex-Green Berets use the skills they perfected in 'Nam to save the Pope from an assassin's bullet in Central America. The trouble is, the hit man is the veterans' former commanding officer who was captured in Asia and outfitted with a special microchip that lets him take orders directly from the Kremlin. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Max Thayer, John Dresden, (more)
- 1986
- R
This action film from prolific Filipino director Cirio Santiago stars Cec Verrell as tough cop Jennie ("Silk"), who works for the Honolulu police. A series of murders has the police baffled, so Silk is called in to help uncover the culprits. Her sleuthing leads to several shoot-outs and evidence that incriminates one of the cops. Connected to the deaths are gangland figures and the ugly business of selling fake identities. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Cec Verrell, Bill McLaughlin, (more)
- 1983
In this grim drama, a young woman is brutally gang-raped and her boy friend murdered by a hunting party. The girl's father goes out and gets bloody revenge against every single one of them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1982
In this routine action-adventure film patterned after the trend-setting Raiders of the Lost Ark, a GI is requested by the Allies in World War II to come back to the Philippines after the war has ended and find the Golden Cobra, a sacred image worshipped by the Awoks (predating George Lucas' Ewoks by one year). When he does return, the ex-GI, Bob (David Warbeck), is not alone. He has two allies in the form of June (Almanta Suska) and her uncle (Alan Collins), who are searching for June's twin sister, April, lost in the jungle many years earlier. Anyone who has seen Raiders is likely to stay one step ahead of the action. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- David Warbeck, Christopher Connelly, (more)
