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This guy 's legs are stuck under rubble, he's flat on his back, but for days on end they keep feeding him and giving him water. His pants must have been FULL of feces and he must have been SOAKED in urine, causing severe skin breakdown. Not to mention the smell in that confined area. Yet not a word was said about that in the movie - nor, until now, has it been mentioned by any IMDB reviewer or professional critic, at least to my knowledge.

It's interesting that some people here speculated that the ratings on this movie were the subject of a "hit job," because the history of the movie is tragic. Here's how it was explained in BILLBOARD in 2001:

A judge threw out George Harrison's bid to keep his former business manager and partner Denis O' Brien from declaring bankruptcy. Harrison had just had lung cancer surgery and his lawyer told a judge in St. Louis he was too ill to testify. The judge didn't buy it. Of course, Harrison later died from lung cancer, but at the time, the judge said that his failure to appear was "obviously willful."

Harrison had already won an 11 million dollar judgment against O'Brien. Of course, declaring bankruptcy is a common thing - to avoid paying such judgments.

Losses on the film "Cold Dog Soup" prompted Harrison to sue O'Brien.

Director Bob Chinn states in an interview on a therialtoreport.com pod-cast that that the law was getting too close for comfort on the West Coast for his pornographic film projects, so he went to Hawaii to film the Johnny Wadd series movie THE TROPIC OF PASSION. Due to airfare and location fees, TROPIC OF PASSION cost more than previous Johnny Wadd movies - Chinn estimates a budget of $3,000. To recoup the money, he sold the outtakes to Manuel Conde, who fashioned them into THE DANISH CONNECTION.

Given Holmes' notoriety, it's pretty safe to assume that Conde made a nice profit from this feature in the '70's, when there were still lots of drive-in theaters running soft-core exploitation films.