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film directed by

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. It is an action film with a climax that includes UFOs and aliens. It was released on video as ''Top Line''.

Plot

Ted Angelo, a writer struggling with

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and his declining career, is fired by his publisher and ex-wife Maureen De Havilland while on an expedition in Cartagena to do research on

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civilizations. While pondering his return home, Ted comes across a trove of 16th-Century findings from a ship of Spanish

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. His best friend, art historian Alonso Quintero, helps Ted find a buyer in the black market, but is soon found dead. When another merchant is murdered, Ted learns from the man who had tried to sell him the loot - a

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dealer posing as a fisherman - that the Spanish ship is located not underwater, but inside a mountain cave. Upon climbing the mountain and finding the ship, Ted discovers that the cave is the inside of a UFO that captured the ship five centuries earlier and crash-landed shortly afterwards. Aided by young art historian June, former colleague of Quintero's, Ted escapes assassination attempts by local hitmen and by Heinrich Holzmann, an antiquarian and National Socialist fugitive whom Quintero had suggested as a potential buyer. Ted enlists a two-man

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to return to the mountain and shoot a

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, but these are soon revealed to be undercover

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operatives: while trying to frame Ted for murder, one of them is killed; the other gives chase, but is later lost by Ted, who has taken refuge on a truck driven by a couple of drunk local farmers. Ted considers selling the information to the

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embassy in Bogotà, but after realizing that the

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is already involved, he and June convince Maureen to come to Colombia and rescue them. The next day, while waiting for Maureen to reach them by boat, Ted and June are attacked by another hitman. In the ensuing chase, their pursuer turns out to be a

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as Ted Angelo *

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as Heinrich Holzmann *

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as June (credited as ''Deborah Barrymore'') * Mary Stavin as Maureen De Havilland * William Berger as Alonso Kintero * Shirley Hernandez: Juanita * Larry Dolgin * Robert Redcross

Release

The film was released theatrically in Germany on September 22, 1988. Released on Region 1 DVD on May 25, 2004 Several sites have the movie available for streaming, including as of March 2022,

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Reception

Sci-Fi 100 found the first hour of the movie to be an ''

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'' rip-off with little as far as sci-fi elements, but they did find the last 30 minutes to be interesting and increasing the amount of science fiction. Film Authority gave the movie 3 stars, finding it a weird mishmash of '' Romancing the Stone'', ''

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'' and ''

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''.

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*{{IMDb title, 0096287 1988 films 1980s science fiction adventure films 1980s science fiction action films Italian science fiction adventure films Italian science fiction action films Films directed by Nello Rossati Films about extraterrestrial life 1980s Italian films 1988 science fiction films

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