Joe Don Justice

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FINAL JUSTICE-1985-2 Italian mobster brothers kill a sheriff and his deputy Geronimo (Joe Don Baker) chases them to the Mexican border. He kills one of them and captures Palermo (Ven-antino Venantini; CANNIBAL FEROX (1981)) who vows revenge. For some reason, Geronimo is assigned by Chief Wilson (Bill McKinney), to take Palermo back to Sicily to stand trial but through sabotage and violence Palermo escapes when the plane makes an emergency landing in Malta. Geronimo is ordered back to the US but instead he goes out on his own, shooting and disregarding orders. He's assisted by local Gina (Patrizia Pelligrino). Palermo's boss (Rosanno Brazzi) gives Palermo 24 hrs. to get rid of the American. 

Stupid low budget crime drama filmed entirely in Malta by producer/writer/director Greydon Clark (who plays the doomed sheriff). A US-Italy co-production. Baker (who died in May of 2025) starred in director Clark's JOYSTICKS in 1983. Rossano Brazzi (who directed and starred in THE CHRISTMAS THAT ALMOST WASN'T in 1966) was in Abel Ferrara's FEAR CITY the year before this.

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Doggone Dogs!

 

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THE PACK-1977-Abandoned wild dogs band together to terrorize residents and tourists on Seal Island. They kill a horse then a blind man. A marine biologist (Joe Don Baker; WALKING TALL) gets concerned when his girlfriend (Hope Alexander Willis) is attacked. One unfortunate woman seeks shelter in the place where the dogs hang out. Locals Cobb (RG Armstrong) and Hardiman (Richard B. Shull) help out. The survivors barricade themselves in as the dogs get more aggressive. 

This low budget “canines gone wild” horror/survival story features a great long climax. Robert Clouse (ENTER THE DRAGON) directed and co-scripted it with David Fisher, who wrote the novel the movie is based on.

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Demon Mountain

THE CURSE OF DEMON MOUNTAIN-1977-Trader to his country and slave loving turncoat Confederate captain Wishbone Cutter (Joe Don Baker) returns from the war his people started to find his wife and house lost to the Yankee bastards. Sore loser!

 He and his "half breed" partner Half Moon (Joy Houck Jr.) team up with a geologist Amos (Ted Neeley) to find some "stones" buried in a cursed mountain in Arkansas by a dying rebel (Slim Pickens). After coming upon the remains of an Indian massacre they pick up Drusilla (Sondra Locke), a rape victim left for dead. On their way, they seem to be followed. Half Moon thinks it's evil spirits. They have an encounter with three bush-whackers Posey (Dennis Fimple), Rafe (John Chandler) & Dancer (Grady Wyatt) who they bury in a landslide. When they get to the mountain Half Moon says it's cursed by an eagle killed by an Indian chief. They lose all their horses and Half Moon is killed. After Drusilla is rescued from falling off a mountain, the trio find the diamonds. Amos is killed by an arrow through his neck. 

This is the only directorial effort by Earl E. Smith who wrote THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK and THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN. 

CURSE OF DEMON MOUNTAIN is also known as THE SHADOW OF CHIKARA and was distributed by Howco Int., the company founded by Joy Houck Sr. 

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