''Mankillers'', also known as ''12 Wild Women'', is a 1987
action film
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written and directed by
David A. Prior.
Filmed in 1986 in and around
Riverside, California
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,
United States
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, it was shot back to back with ''
Deadly Prey'' as part of the newly formed
Action International Pictures.
The alternate title notwithstanding, ''Mankillers'' actually features fifteen women as members of the titular commando unit, not twelve.
Plot
A female CIA agent is assigned to train and lead an all-female combat squad to Colombia to stop a renegade agent who has hired himself out to a drug cartel and white slaver. Unfortunately, the agent's recruits consists of prison convicts - murderesses,
sociopaths, bank robbers, etc. These women are guaranteed clean slates on their records if the mission is successfully pulled off. Their past "experience" from their criminal endeavors offers them some insight and skill, but most of their mission-specific training will require them to learn team effort, self-sacrifice, and the ability to follow orders and achieve mission objectives.
Cast
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Edd Byrnes
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as Jack Marra
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Gail Fisher as Joan Hanson
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Edy Williams as Sgt. Roberts
*Lynda Aldon as Rachael McKenna
*William Zipp as John Mickland
*Christine Lunde as Maria Rosetti
*Suzanne Tegmann as Terry Davis
*Marilyn Stafford as Roxanne Taylor
*Paul Bruno as Bruno
*Bryan Clark as Williams
*Thyais Walsh as Vicki Thompson
*Bainbridge Scott as Christine Rollins
*Cyndi Domino as Trish Daniels
*Amber Star as K.C. Grimes
*John Taylor as Mannetti
*Sheila Best as Margaret Skinner
*Naomi Delgado as Vannesa Shaw
*Arlene Julian as Lisa Leonardo
*Veronica Carothers as Shannon Smith
Release
''Mankillers'' was released on
DVD and
Blu-ray
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on September 13, 2016.
References
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1987 action films
Action International Pictures films
1987 films
Films shot in California
Girls with guns films
American action films
Films scored by Mark Mancina
Films directed by David A. Prior
1980s English-language films
1980s American films
English-language action films
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