Skeleton Coast

Skeleton Coast (1988)

A retired American colonel: his mission, to rescue his son, a CIA agent imprisoned in the Skeleton Coast!

A retired Army colonel attempts to rescue his imprisoned son in this action packed thriller. To save his CIA operative son from terrorists, Col. Smith (Ernest Borgnine) and a group of mercenaries head to war-torn Angola's Skeleton Coast, where they must infiltrate an armed compound run by a sadistic East German officer before Smith's son is tortured to death. Robert Vaughn, Oliver Reed and Herbert Lom costar.

Date of release
1988-04-14
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Action, Thriller
Director
John "Bud" Cardos

Casting

Interesting facts

Skeleton Coast is a 1987 South African-made mercenary war film directed by John Cardos in the first of three films for producer Harry Alan Towers. It was the first of Towers' Breton Film Productions.

Production

Nadia Caillou, the daughter of screenwriter and author Alan Caillou, made her screenwriting debut in the film. She had previously acted in John Cardos's 1977 film Kingdom of the Spiders. Cardos claimed Harry Alan Towers reedited the film that destroyed the continuity of the story.

Tullio Moneta was second-in-command to Mike Hoare when the latter led the 1981 Seychelles coup attempt at Mahe Airport in the Seychelles and was sentenced to five years in prison in November 1981.

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