 Ring Of Steel, Innerspace & Fatal Beauty
Ring Of Steel
A champion fencer accidentally kills an opponent during a competition and whist he's on suspension, he's approached by Joe Don Baker who wants him to compete in sword fights called The Ring Of Steel. When he refuses, his girlfriend is kidnapped so he's forced to fight.
If you read the back of the Video/DVD cover and some of the dialogue, it makes it sound like it it's a bloody fight to death kind of movie however apart the beginning and one fight in the Ring Of Steel, there's hardly any blood and deaths. So it's unlike American Samurai or Gladiator Cop.
Robert Chapin stars and wrote this film and you can tell it's a passion project for him and the sword fights are very well done. Apparently the script was originally darker but got changed by the production company who bought the rights. I believe it was Colombia Pictures who released it in the UK.
This was the very 1st DVD I bought and it's a very entertaining movie, it was let down by the description on the cover. This also stars Darlene Vogel, who was a star in the 1998 U.S. Police Show Pacific Blue (Police officers on bikes, Channel 5 showed on Saturday Evenings)
Innerspace
Dennis Quaid is a Test Pilot who is shrunk and under circumstances beyond the control of the scientists in charge, is injected into hypochondriac Martin Short, soon arms dealers start chasing them. This is you're quint essential
80's Sci-Fi/Comedy film from Joe Dante and it's still a lot of fun.
I remember watching it on my TV when it came on BBC 1 for it's Network Television premier (Back then most people only had 4 channels), the Saturday before Christmas and recorded it as well. I must have watched it many times. If I remember correctly, this was one of the big films that was on TV over that Christmas.
Fatal Beauty
Whoopi Goldberg is a Detective investigated drug related deaths, Sam Elliott co-stars. I had this DVD for a while but never got round to watching it as something else came along. One of the advantages of lockdown is the fact, I can catch up the films, I've not had the opportunity of watch. It's not bad but it's another one of those films that was probably better back in the day.
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