High Risk

High Risk (1981)

Getting in was easy... getting out was war!!!

Four American friends, badly needing money, decide to make a commando-like raid into a South American drug lord's compound.

Date of release
1981-05-01
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (35)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Action, Thriller, Adventure
Director
Stewart Raffill

Casting

Interesting facts

High Risk is a 1981 American-British-Mexican adventure heist film directed by Stewart Raffill and stars James Brolin, Lindsay Wagner, Cleavon Little, James Coburn, Ernest Borgnine and Anthony Quinn.

Production

Stewart Raffill says he got the idea to make the film when hired to make a documentary where he had to interview people in Spanish prisons who were imprisoned for smuggling hashish out of Morocco. Raffill says he later found out the people who financed him were drug dealers who wanted to find out how to smuggle hashish out of North Africa. Although the film was set in Colombia, it was shot in Mexico.

"Stewart wrote a very spare script and we took it from there," said Lindsay Wagner later. "All of us worked on our characters to bring out the humor of human beings in real situations. All of the characters are rich, especially Bruce Davison, who does a wonderful job. And Anthony Quinn deserves an Academy nomination, but I don't suppose he'll get it."

Wagner also recalled that "One of our locations was in a tiny village near the border of Nicaragua. (Nicaragua is 500 miles from Mexico and Lindsay Wagner has dyslexia.) It's near some very famous ruins, and about as remote as you can get. On the day I arrived, I stepped out of the car and people started shouting, Mujer Bionica. I couldn't imagine how they could recognize me. Then I looked around and saw television antennas on all the houses.

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