Un conductor de rickshaw manual de Miami se ve envuelto en el asesinato de un hombre al que acaba de conocer. Se convierte en parte de una batalla del bien contra el mal entre una antigua br... Leer todoUn conductor de rickshaw manual de Miami se ve envuelto en el asesinato de un hombre al que acaba de conocer. Se convierte en parte de una batalla del bien contra el mal entre una antigua bruja china y un evangelista, el diablo encarnado.Un conductor de rickshaw manual de Miami se ve envuelto en el asesinato de un hombre al que acaba de conocer. Se convierte en parte de una batalla del bien contra el mal entre una antigua bruja china y un evangelista, el diablo encarnado.
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Olympic gymnast Mitch Gaylord makes an okay hero in the Italian action pic "American Tiger". Poorly scripted effort is being released directly to video in the States.
Credited to four writers, including director Sergio Martino, storyline unwisely attempts to inject a mystical element into an otherwise straightforward suspense plot.
Muscular Gayulord plays a young student in Mami who earns money pulling a rickshaw carrying tourists (pic's original title was "American Rickshaw"). Pic opens with him being kind to an old Oriental woman (Michi Kobi) by giving her a ride in the rain. It turns out she's an ageless witch who's been guarding a legendary Boar Statue that's about to fall into the hands of unscrupulous televangelist Donald Pleasence unless Gaylord saves the day.
While Peasence's henchman Daniel Greene is killing folks and hunting Gaylord for a missing key to obtain the statue, Mitch is thrown together with a young stripper (Victoria Prouty) as innocents on the lam. Martino stages the action scenes well with plenty of Miami location atmosphere but keeps injecting idiotic supernatural interventions, as Kobi starts fires or uses her pet cat and snake to try to confound the villains.
Prouty is an attractive redhead who deserves better roles than this while Gylord shows some promise as a he-man action star. Pleasence is embarrassing wearing a wig in flashbacks as a younger version of himself -he already was bald back in '50s movies, so the effect is incongruous..
I presume that Italian cult directors booked group travels together to Miami, Florida, and then shot movies there separately. Enzo G. Castellari made "Hammerhead", Alberto de Martino did "Miami Golem", and Sergio Martino thought up the grotesquely inventive "American Rickshaw". The hunky & athletic Mitchell Gaylord (I'm not making fun of him, mind you, that's his actual name) stars as a student/rickshaw driver Scott Edwards who becomes entangled in a convoluted web of Chinese spiritualism, devilish evangelists, voyeuristic amateur-pornography, double-crossing strip dancers, hypnotizing cobras, spontaneously combusting boats, eerie warthog relics, prophetic cats, rejuvenating geishas, and flesh-melting locker keys. I kid you not!
Explaining how all these bizarre elements connect would take too long and would also ruin the fun! Just take my word for it, "American Rickshaw" is jolly great fun IF you don't ask any questions regarding logic or sense. It's fast-paced, full of action and gratuitous nudity, and - especially towards the finale - there's also some excellent gore! Mr. Gaylord and the ravishing Victoria Prouty (in her only role ever) are amiable, but - as usual - my preference goes to the nasty, evil villains! Daniel Green, Martino's regular beefcake from "Atomic Cyborg" and "Day of the Condor" is awesome as the unstoppable killer, and good old Donald Pleasance is present again as well. I'm not sure if Pleasance fully realized what filmset he was on, but his charisma is always an added cult value.
This is the sort of film my did would have got at the video store to add up the 4 for the weekend deal and we would watch and then forget that it ever existed.
I'll just end by saying that for a movie that may somewhat have the reputation of being bad, I was captivated by how confusing everything was. I sincerly think every lovers of bad movies should give it a shot. 10/10 recommended.
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- CuriosidadesWas featured on Red Letter Media's Best of the Worst episode 93 on YouTube.
- PifiasAround the 56-minute mark, Scott and Joanna are in bed in a motel. In a closeup of Scott, Joanna can be seen wearing her green top. When the shot cuts to a medium shot, she is topless.
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Joanna Simpson: I've got nothing to say to you. Get out or I'll scream!
Scott Edwards: You scream, I swear to God I'm gonna stick you with this thing, all right?
[holds out a used needle]
Scott Edwards: I found it in the gutter. I'm sure you're familiar with AIDS.
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