''Big Zapper'' is a 1973 British action film directed by

Lindsay Shonteff Lindsay Craig Shonteff (5 November 1935 – 11 March 2006) was a Canadian born film director, film producer and screenwriter who achieved fame for low-budget films produced in the United Kingdom. Biography Lindsay Shonteff was born in Toronto, O ...

and starring

Linda Marlowe Linda Virginia Marlowe (née Bathurst, born 26 July 1940) is an Australian-born British film, theatre, and television actress. She is noted for her association with Steven Berkoff, performing in many of his theatrical works, creating a one-woma ...

, Gary Hope and

Sean Hewitt Sean, also spelled Seán or Séan in Irish English, is a male given name of Irish origin. It comes from the Irish versions of the Biblical Hebrew name ''Yohanan'' (), Seán (anglicized as ''Shaun/Shawn/ Shon'') and Séan (Ulster variant; angliciz ...

. It was followed by a sequel '' The Swordsman''.Sheridan p.99

Cast

as Harriet Zapper * Gary Hope as Kono *

as Fingers *

Michael O'Malley Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...

as Strawberry Jim *

Richard Monette Richard Jean Monette CM, DHum, LLD (June 19, 1944 – September 9, 2008), was a Canadian actor and director, best known for his 14-season tenure as the longest-serving artistic director of the Stratford Festival of Canada from 1994 to 2007. Ear ...

as Rock Hard *

Jack May Jack Wynne May (23 April 1922 – 19 September 1997) was an English actor. Early life and education May was born in 1922 in Henley-on-Thames, and was educated at Forest School in Walthamstow. After war service with the Royal Indian Navy in Br ...

as Jeremiah Horn *

Penny Irving Penny Irving is a former actress and a page 3 model in '' The Sun'' “newspaper”. Career Irving is best remembered for her roles in the 1970s sitcom ''Are You Being Served?'' (as Miss Bakewell, Young Mr Grace's secretary), appearing between ...

as Maggie * Stuart Lock as Septimus / Randy Horn *

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as Pandora Horn / Pandy *

Kristopher Kum Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), " Christ" or " Anointed", and φέρ ...

as Samurai * Hock Chuan as Samurai * Tony Hiew as Samurai *

William Ridoutt William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conques ...

as Shawn Cobra * Graham Ashley as Cortini

References

Bibliography

* Denis Gifford. '' British Film Catalogue, Volume I''. Routledge, 2016. * Simon Sheridan. ''Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema''. Reynolds & Hearn Books, 2007.

External links

* 1973 films British action films 1973 action films 1970s English-language films Films directed by Lindsay Shonteff 1970s British films {{1970s-UK-film-stub