Savage! (1973)

Directed by

Cirio H. Santiago

Genre

action film, blaxploitation film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 21m

Rated

R

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A black secret agent fights a Latin American military dictatorship. The movie is a low-budget action film from the 1970s.

action-packedgrittyb-movielow-budgetfast-pacedretroexploitative

What happens

Savage! is a 1973 American-Philippines action film with elements of blaxploitation. The funding and distribution came from Roger Corman's New World Pictures which also provided the leading players from among a number of American actors who regularly appeared in such features. It was produced and directed by Cirio H. Santiago who, between 1973 and his death in 2008, partnered with Corman on over 40 Philippines-based action-adventure exploitation films which took advantage of much lower local production costs. The title role is played by top-billed James Iglehart, with co-stars Lada Edmund, Jr. and Carol Speed. As in most such productions of the 1970s and 1980s, the setting is not identified as the Philippines, but rather an unspecified Latin American location ruled by a military-based authoritarian regime. The soundtrack is by Don Julian. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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