From story authors Jonathan Demme & Joe Viola, screenwriter H.R. Christian, and the prolific Eddie Romero, comes this diverting Filipino chase movie that puts an exploitative spin on the premise of "The Defiant Ones".

Several Volkswagen Country Buggies are used in the movie; these were based on the VW Beetle chassis originally for the Australian market. The Country Buggy was produced locally in the Philippines as the Sakbayan, using VW power plants sourced from either Brazil or Mexico. Director Romero makes this a pretty lively affair, and it's worth noting that things take on a rather tongue in cheek tone at times. The ample humour helps to make this quite easy to watch, with Pams' frequent co-star Sid Haig given a meaty role which he plays with relish: a flamboyant, horny, loud talking dude in a cowboy costume. Romeros' pacing is effective, and the action scenes are fairly intense; there are some brief bursts of bloody violence. The location shooting is excellent, and the supporting cast features some familiar faces from Filipino exploitation cinema: Eddie Garcia, Alfonso Carvajal, Bruno Punzalan, and the always welcome Vic Diaz, who's a hoot as an oily crime lord. Sexy Lynn Borden has the role of a lustful prison guard. Stars Markov and Grier look fantastic and get some great chemistry going.

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In those waning days of the drive-in theater this item must have been a big old hit. All the hot buttons of the Seventies are pushed in this one. Even though they both fill out their clothes better and will get a few whistles from the males in the audience no one is ever going to mistake Pam Grier and Margaret Markov for Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis. All right, Halle Berry and Jamie Lee Curtis. Grier became seriously ill during the making of the movie. "It was a tropical disease you get from ingestion, either from food or from the virus going through your skin in water", she said. "We were in a lot of rivers, rice paddies, where there are leeches and bacteria. So it was just a matter of time before it went through a cut and into your brain – and it could kill you." She was in bed for a month with a temperature of 105 degrees. "I lost my hair, I couldn't see, I couldn't walk. I was dying. The doctor kind of froze me to kill the cell in my brain." [14]

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Hutchinson, Mark; Williams, Ian (2018). "Key to the Snakes of South Australia" (PDF). South Australian Museum. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2019 . Retrieved 8 February 2019. Lee and Karen scamper about the countryside in decidedly skimpy attire, bound together by hatred and stumbling and cat-fighting their way through the wilderness. Lynn Borden says she, too, fell ill during filming as well. [15] Themes [ edit ] Feminism and sexuality [ edit ] The movie is screened in the John Sayles film Lone Star (1996). Sayles said "Even that [movie] is about people of different races being chained together whether they want to or not." [25] See also [ edit ] Tsetlin, V. I. (2001). "Snake venom α‐neurotoxins and other 'three‐finger' proteins". European Journal of Biochemistry. 264 (2): 281–286. doi: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00623.x. PMID 10491072.

a b c d e f g h i j FitzSimons, Vivian F. M. (1970). A Field Guide to the Snakes of Southern Africa (Seconded.). HarperCollins. pp.167–169. ISBN 978-0-00-212146-0. Definition of mamba in English". Oxford Dictionaries. OED. Archived from the original on 13 January 2017 . Retrieved 11 January 2017.The movie chronicles the pair's struggle to escape the army, led by Captain Cruz ( Eddie Garcia) who enlists the help of the cowboy gang led by Ruben ( Sid Haig). The pair also has competing goals: Lee to recover the money that she extorted from her former pimp, Vic Cheng ( Vic Díaz), and escape by boat, and Karen to meet her gun connections on time so that they do not turn on her rebel friends.