Indiana Jones knock offs?
 

A Shameless double bill release of Hunters Of The Golden Cobra and Ark Of The Sun God would please me greatly.

What other films of this ilk have vanished since the days of video rental?

I would gladly snap up a double bill featuring those two!
Trailer for 'ARK':

ARK OF THE SUN GOD (1983) - Trailer - YouTube

I've always found Indiana Jones knock offs to be on the whole rubbish. (Gwendoline excepted).

Even studio productions like Jewel of the Nile, King Soloman's Mines and Tomb Raider were on the whole poor.

The first Mummy film (1999) and National Treasure (2004) are the only successes i can think of.

As for crappy, Italian, no budget dross :tsk:

Any recommendations?

I've always been quite curious to see KISS OF THE COBRA:


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I liked Treasure Of The Four Crowns when I was a kid. I remember being gutted that I couldn't see it in its original 3D.

I had that on tape but my video would never play it :(

Here is the rights holder for ARK OF THE SUN GOD so you can't pretend to not know who own's it ;)

http://www.varietycommunications.it/..._en/Action.pdf

While you're there you can buy all those Mattei movies, too! :happy:

JUNGLE RAIDERS! WANT!

There appears to be two German editions of JUNGLE RAIDERS but, as usual, they are not English friendly.


Would gladly like to be told otherwise!

Have you looked at the rest of their catalogue? Some amazing titles there.

The US release of Ark of the Sun God is terrible.:sad:

I saw Treasure Of The Four Crowns as a kid. The ending is insane!:scared:

OT but just checked the link and quite a few of them sound like good cheesy fun ripe for the Shameless range

Man, I remember watching the trailer for Treasure of the Four Crowns on Stephen Romano's Shock Festival DVD and thinking it looked totally boss! Definitely need to check it out! :)

Although not Italian, the Allan Quatermain movies are fun Indy rip-offs.

I'm a big fan of these 2 Richard Chamberlain / Sharon Stone eighties cheese fests:

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Supposedly based on the H. Rider Haggard novels but definitely Indiana Jones cash ins :p Oh and Chamberlain does a remarkable Chuck Norris impersonation in these films

Remember going to see both of them at the cinema. Great soundtracks on them too. My favourite Chamberlain performances, along with Shōgun

Yeah he's really charismatic in the 2 films, you could easily picture him playing Indiana Jones. He never really made it big in movies though for some reason, more of a TV actor from the late 70s onwards. I'm keen to get a copy of The Bourne Identity 1988 in which he plays Bourne and have long wanted to see Shōgun.

Oh and I've not got round to watching it yet but Selleck's High Road To China must surely be at least a bit of an IJ rip-off??

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Tom Selleck would have really improved the Indiana Jones films if he had been cast instead of Embarrassin' Bored.

:eek: (a million exclamation marks)

Locate this man's IP address! Release the hounds!

Us innovative thinkers are always persecuted! :lol:

Haha, well Spielberg & Lucas did want Selleck as their 1st choice for Indy Jones but he was tied up to his Magnum PI contract. Still, I thought Ford fit the role perfectly too. Quality actor though Selleck, seriously underrated.

I haven't seen any of the IDIANA JONES films since I was about 7 or 8. These days I'm more interested in seeing some dodgy Italian rip-off than watching the 'proper' films again.

Word.

Was having a little email chat with the guys at Shameless yesterday and they were really interested to hear that fans were requesting these titles. Apparently they're not something that's on their list of possible titles right now but never say never... :)

I've got ARK from Televista. A better transfer would be most welcome. But being released in a double pack of HUNTERS would be the cherry on the cake.

There is an ultra rare Italian DVD of ARK which is in it's correct ratio and has English audio. Really hard to find, unfortunately. :(

Predators of the Magic Stone

I would love to see this.

Predators of the Magic Stone (1988)

I'd snap up a Shameless double-bill of these two in a heartbeat. I remember John Steiner's character in the former being incredibly hard to kill and the guy has more lives than a cat! The latter film's fun Matchbox model car chase merits more than one viewing too!

Can't recall much about this effort bar the VHS artwork and 'The Stranger' himself, Tony Anthony playing the lead. The ‘Blindman’ doing Indy!

If i'm right i own a new copy of this edition at home but it's boxed up with most of my other titles. Yours truly picked up said release years ago along with an Italian Tentacles DVD which i gave away once i realised there were no English subtitle and audio options!:doh:

You and me both. Christopher Connelly and Lee Van Cleef star in this one too if i remember correctly.

Anybody else also recall Gold Raiders with the late Robert Ginty and White Fire too with the same actor although this latter effort was something of a dreary affair imo despite the presence of the former Exterminator and Fred 'The Hammer' Williamson.

I haven’t caught Rene Cardona Jr.’s Treasure Of The Amazon for years either not since seeing EIV's pruned pre-cert entitled Treasure Of Doom. A notable cast in this one though including Bradford Dillman, Donald Pleasence, Stuart Whitman, John Ireland and Hugo Stiglitz. I once owned the Dutch ISV release and subsequently purchased VCI's U.S. DVD which i've yet to watch.:blush:

Currently watching Ark Of The Sun God (in French) and I swear this would make a superb Shameless release! Plenty of action, Warbeck mugging away, nicely filmed.

Do the right thing, Shameless!

PLEASE!

The original Indiana Jones films are coming on Blu

Here's hoping Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom will be uncut this time! Both U.K. DVDs are still snipped if i'm not wrong.:mmph:

I don't like them. I'd rather have the rip-offs.

Well, Raiders... is just bearable, but I've no time for he others.

Same here! :nod:

Not even 'sniff' The Last Crusade? The best in the quadrilogy?:(

Did I just read that correctly? :D


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No you didn't. He actually said 'trilogy' since we all know there are only 3 films in that series.

Tetralogy* and no. Sean Connery is in it. Sean Connery AND Harrison Ford. *shudder* I was not impressed.

I saw someone yesterday use "quintology" when he meant "pentalogy". Why are these made up words appearing?




*Soz guys, trilogy...

Hawkmonger! I didn't mean to sound condescending then! Sorry, mate!

It didn't come off as condisending at all, Gojirosan!
We all have differing opinions on actors, not just members here, but everyone world over. You hate Sean Connery, whers't most people love him. Alot of members of this site love Reb Brown, most other people would never have even heard of him.
The Indian Jones QUADRILOGY BTW.:tongue1:
I must insist. I dislike Temple of the Crystal Skull as much as most, but alas it happened. We must accept it as we accept The Phantom Menace.

Imean I was being condesending for correcting quadrilogy for tetralogy (the proper word!).

It's a pet peeve of mine and I blurt it out when ever I hear "quadrilogy"! :lol:

I am trying very hard to try to not care about it!