''Born to Fight'' () is a 1989

action film The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work. The specifics of what constitutes an action film has been in scholarly debate since the 1980s. While some scholars such as D ...

, starring

Brent Huff Brent Huff (born March 11, 1954 in Springfield, Missouri) is an American actor, writer and film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) ...

, John van Dreelen, Werner Pochath and Mary Stavin. The film was shot in the

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due to

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in 1988 and is the third time − after '' Strike Commando 2'' (1988) and '' Cop Game'' (1988) − when Brent Huff worked with director

Bruno Mattei Bruno Mattei (30 July 1931 – 21 May 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, editor who directed exploitation films in many genres, including Women in prison film, women in prison, nunsploitation, Zombie films, zombi ...

Plot

Super tough Vietnam War veteran Sam Wood ( Huff) is a survivor of a vicious prison camp where he was brutally and painfully tortured before finally managing to escape. When Wood returns to rescue his friends, he finds that they are already dead. Some time later, a woman named Maryline Kane ( Stavin) offers him a tremendous amount of money if he will accompany her back to the area where the prison camp was to do interviews for a documentary story. It all turns out to be a lie − her father is now a prisoner in the camp, and she knows that only a man like Wood can help set him free. Sam adopts a proposal, but the situation is much more complicated, because the camp is now run by his old nemesis Duan Loc ( Pochath).

Cast

as Sam Wood * Werner Pochath as Duan Loc *

Romano Puppo Romano Puppo (25 March 1933 – 11 May 1994) was an Italian stuntman and actor. Life and career Born in Rome, Puppo debuted in 1961 in the Mauro Bolognini's drama '' Careless'', and after a number of very minor roles he soon became a regular ...

as Alex Bross * John van Dreelen as Gen. Weber * Mary Stavin as Maryline Kane * Don Wilson (IV) as Gen. Weber's Aide *

Claudio Fragasso Claudio Fragasso (born 2 October 1951) is a film director and screenwriter. Fragasso first attempted to make art films in the early 1970s, then became a screenwriter in the Italian film industry in the mid-1970s. Fragasso met director Bruno Matt ...

(as Clyde Anderson) as one of the prisoners

External links

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References

1989 action films 1989 films 1980s English-language films 1980s Italian-language films Films directed by Bruno Mattei Macaroni Combat films Films shot in the Philippines 1989 multilingual films Italian multilingual films 1980s Italian films English-language action films {{1980s-action-film-stub