Difference between revisions of "Black Gold"

From The Grindhouse Cinema Database

m
Line 1: Line 1:
<div class="row">
<div class="row">
   <div class="large-6 columns">'''Black Gold''' (which is merely the video title) is an Italian action-spy-war movie with post-apocalyptic and men-on-a-mission elements.
   <div class="large-6 columns">
'''Black Gold''' ([[:Category:1979|1979]], [[:Category:Italy|Italy]]/[[:Category:France|France]]) is an [[:Category:Action/Adventure|Action]]-[[:Category:Spy Films|Spy]]-[[:Category:War|War]] film directed by Luigi Batzella.
* Contents: [[/BluRay|BluRay releases]] | [https://amzn.to/2HTkWIT Amazon Video (German)] | [[/DVD|DVD releases]]
* Contents: [[/BluRay|BluRay releases]] | [https://amzn.to/2HTkWIT Amazon Video (German)] | [[/DVD|DVD releases]]
[[File:Petrole.jpg|Black Gold]]
[[File:Petrole.jpg|Black Gold]]
</div>
</div>
<div class="large-6 columns">
<div class="large-6 columns">
===Main Details===
===Main Details===
* Release date: June 1979 (Italy), 1982 (Norway, France: video), 1983 (West Germany)
* Released on June 26, 1979 (Italy)
* Color
* Running time: 90 minutes (Italy)
* Production Co.: Eurociné | International Cine Holiday
* Directed by Luigi Batzella
* Written by Alain Petit
* Starring: Richard Harrison, Gordon Mitchell, Florence Cayrol
* Starring: Richard Harrison, Gordon Mitchell, Florence Cayrol
* Director: Luigi Batzella (as Ivan Kathansky)
* Writer: Alain Petit
 
===Plot Summary===
*A diplomatic meeting between Western and Arab diplomats goes wrong, and a black gold dossier is firmly pushed across a desk. Against a background of hostages taken in an embassy, a covert operations agent, Benson, is given a mission in Paris. He is going into an Arab Emirate with a chosen group of operatives, and blow up an oil refinery. Getting in is easy, but getting out - well, that's another thing. In the end, among crossfire and grenades, and double-crossing, only Benson comes back to report mission accomplished. he will be gunned down by the Eiffel Tower by his own people. The mission was so secret that someone made sure "Dead can not speak."
 
===Also known as===
===Also known as===
* Strategia per una missione di morte (Italy, original title)
* Strategia per una missione di morte (Italy, original title)
Line 17: Line 27:
* Stoßtrupp in die Wüste (West Germany)
* Stoßtrupp in die Wüste (West Germany)
* La Guerre du petrole (France)
* La Guerre du petrole (France)
</div></div>
 
[[Category:Films]][[Category:Italy]][[Category:1979]]
__NOTOC__
 
[[Category:Films]][[Category:Italy]][[Category:1979]][[Category:France]][[Category:Action/Adventure]][[Category:Spy Films]][[Category:War]]

Revision as of 00:14, 19 June 2021

Black Gold (1979, Italy/France) is an Action-Spy-War film directed by Luigi Batzella.

Black Gold

Main Details

  • Released on June 26, 1979 (Italy)
  • Color
  • Running time: 90 minutes (Italy)
  • Production Co.: Eurociné | International Cine Holiday
  • Directed by Luigi Batzella
  • Written by Alain Petit
  • Starring: Richard Harrison, Gordon Mitchell, Florence Cayrol


Plot Summary

  • A diplomatic meeting between Western and Arab diplomats goes wrong, and a black gold dossier is firmly pushed across a desk. Against a background of hostages taken in an embassy, a covert operations agent, Benson, is given a mission in Paris. He is going into an Arab Emirate with a chosen group of operatives, and blow up an oil refinery. Getting in is easy, but getting out - well, that's another thing. In the end, among crossfire and grenades, and double-crossing, only Benson comes back to report mission accomplished. he will be gunned down by the Eiffel Tower by his own people. The mission was so secret that someone made sure "Dead can not speak."

Also known as

  • Strategia per una missione di morte (Italy, original title)
  • Black Gold (video title: Canada, Spain, Norway)
  • Black Gold Dossier (video bootleg title: USA)
  • Sabotage (video title: USA)
  • Stoßtrupp in die Wüste (West Germany)
  • La Guerre du petrole (France)
Newsletter
  • Grindhouse Database Newsletter
  • Exploitation books
  • Kung fu movies
  • Giallo BluRay