Monday, October 2, 2023

In Praise Of Sir Reginold Cabot

 



A co-production of two MFC's, West Germany's Munich Film Company and Hong Kong's Massive Film Company.  SIR REGINOLD CABOT'S ATTACK FORCE 6 (1975) is an action film lover's dream.



Sir Reginold Cabot is a self-made man.  A Billionaire with a diversified portfolio that includes world-wide real estate holdings, oil, manufacturing and heading a secret group of mercenaries, who for a high price, will do the dirty work for king, country and other wealthy people who would rather pay through the nose than bleed out of it.

His Attack Force is the cream of the soldier of fortune crop.  They include:







BIG ETHEL: Weighing in at 250 lbs. And standing 6’1, Big Ethel is Pure Brute force.  No pretense of style or skill.  Loves to leave her rivals a pile of pulverized mush.  Cracking spines a specialty, as well as bashing heads and breaking bones, especially after she’s devoured a good hearty meal.  Has been known to sit on an adversary until they gasp their last breath. . . or until she gets bored and stomps on their head for the coup de grace





DELTA WASHINGTON:  5th degree Black Belt.  Agile in body and in mind.  Follows the teachings of his two mentors . . . the Dali Lama and Grog the Merciless.  Has been known to rip out an opponent’s still beating heart and feed it to the wolves (If there are no wolves present, he’ll hold onto the heart until he finds one).  Famous for his head-to-toe yellow attire, which he calls his “Canary Slaughter Suit”.  In Von Bemmer’s Guide of Assassins, Delta Washington has high marks across the board.  Being ranked #1 in both hand-to-hand combat and dress and deportment.  Washington is not without principles and adheres to a strict code of morals that he follows.
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He will not accept any job that involves killing anyone under eighteen years of age, although 
        he did assassinate a target just after the man blew out his birthday candles.
He will not kill a woman.
He will not kill an elderly person.





LADY NICE-NICE:  Many men and women fall prey to her feminine whiles.  She is stunningly beautiful and has charm and grace to spare, but make no mistake, she is cunning and deceptive.  Uses her womanly allure to lure in her adversaries then attacks without feeling. . . without mercy.  Lady Nice-Nice prefers poison as her weapon of choice: cyanide, arsenic, ricin and strychnine are her constant companions, which she administers in deadly doses to her oblivious victims.  Her favorite ploy is to propose a toast to her target's health and long life, then watch them convulse and die at her feet after drinking a lethal cocktail.  We are told that she is rated an A+ in Von Bemmer’s Guide of Assassins scale of hired killers, and she is the only fashion model to crack the top two hundred.  She is also the only hired killer that has the Better Business Bureau's seal of approval.






NEFERTITI JONES: Black Power personified, backed by massive fire power, which is her calling card.  She has killed more men than she has laid . . .  And she has laid a LOT of men.  When she does a job, everyone knows it.  Per Von Bemmer’s Assassins guide, Jones ranks as the #2 machine gun killer in the world and is in the top ten for both incendiary devices and long-distance snipers.  She prefers to call herself a dispatcher rather than an assassin or hired killer.  Her favorite assignments involve dispatching racists and those who prey on the weak and defenseless.  Her favorite quote is “The only prejudice that I like is extreme prejudice”.  Every night she falls asleep listening to a reel-to-reel tape of gunfire.






NANGONG SONG: A high flying Master of all of the Deadly weapons of Kung Fu.  Relentless and stealthy when on the prowl.  Terminal and quite boisterous when on the attack.   The only battle that he has lost in his life was with sanity.  Song is a total wildcard.  He is not even rated in Von Bemmer’s Guide . . . He blames politics.  But don’t doubt that he can’t get any murderous task done, usually leaving a bloody trail of lopped off heads and chopped off limbs upon completion of his assignment.





COSMO 814:  A robot who is programmed with all of the intelligence of the known world, but it can’t defeat Mr. Cabot in a chess match.  Even though Cosmo 814 is not programmed to perform acts of violence, he is a vital piece of any Attack Force assignment, providing knowledge and friendship to the celibate Mr. Cabot.


PLOT: The movie is broken into six separate vignettes.  The first five feature a member of the Attack Force doing their thing as a solo.  

Nefertiti Jones shoots up a group of thugs using illegals as slaves.

Lady Nice-Nice has to ice a rich playboy who runs a white slavery ring out of his                                      luxurious penthouse.

Nangong Song travels to Mainland China to eliminate some black magic practitioners.

Delta Washington takes on a seedy politician in bed with a gang of Illinois Nazi scum.

Big Ethel smashes a heroin smuggling ring using baked goods to ship their deadly product.                      In the end she stops the flow of the drug and is able to indulge her sweet tooth.


The final vignette has all of the members band together with Cosmo 814 to infiltrate a madman's island compound, defeat his kung fu army and put an end to his plan to rule the earth.

Sir Reginold Cabot is played by Argus Neuhaus a German actor in his only film role.

Chia Kuang played Nangong Song.  He was a welcomed face in 1970’s Hong Kong Cinema with over 80 credits in that decade, including BROTHERHOOD OF THE SHADOW WARRIORS (1974), DON’T TREAD ON THE DRAGON (1975), KUNG FU HOKEY POKEY (1976), THREE-LEGGED NUMBSKULL FINDS A BRIDE (1976), THE BLIND BOXER VS THE SIGHTLESS SWORDSMAN (1977) and ENTER THE DRUNKEN DRAGON (1979).

Tiny Siu-Fung, who plays Big Ethel, amassed only five other movie roles, HEROINE WITH THE BUTTERFLY TATTOO (1975), FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY, RUN LIKE AN ELEPHANT (1976), THE RIGHTEOUS FIST OF VENGEANCE (1976), aka THE RIOTOUS FIST OF VENGEANCE, and CHONG’S ANGELS (1979) aka.  HONG KONG SUPER ANGELS, aka. HONG KONG SUPER DUPER ANGELS aka. THE BIGGER BOSS.

Playing Nerfertiti Jones was Theda Joy in her second movie, her first being 1974's THE WOMAN FROM WATTS.  She would later be in THE WATTS WARRIORS (1976) aka. URBAN WARRIORS, aka. INNER-CITY REBELS, aka. ALL OUT WAR IN PRECINCT 9, aka. KUNG FU GHETTO WARRIORS, aka. SLUM FIGHTERS U.S.A, aka. BATTLE BROTHERS.

The sultry Lady Nice-Nice was played by German actress Gertrude Pennybottom who also appeared in OLGA'S ALPINE ADVENTURE (1975), LEDERHOSEN REPORT 8: YOUTH HOSTEL HIJINKS (1978) and HAVE YOU EVER MET A GIRL WHO DIDN’T? (1979).  Pennybottom also appeared in two Taiwanese features.  She played a kinky nightclub singer in THE DRAGON WALKS ALONE (1977) and the blowsy girlfriend of a thug in KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE AND YOUR ENEMIES IN THE GRAVE (1978)

COSMO 814 was voiced by Glen Maverick, who was the low budget Mel Blanc, lending his vocal talents to hundreds of movies, cartoons and commercials. 

Cassowary Osmunda, who was named after the world’s most deadly bird and a moisture loving fern, plays Delta Johnson.  Osmunda played the part of a street tough in BRUCE LEE IN HOLLYWOOD (1973).  In YELLOW HAND OF DEATH (1975) he helped Jerry Kam get revenge on the mafiosos who steal his golden parasol, and in FATAL FLYING FLUTES OF VENGEANCE (1976), “The deadliest of all the woodwind instrument-based weapons”, he battles the villainous members of a symphony orchestra.

Co-directed by West German Gert Beckhaus and Chinese director Sun “Sonny” Yun-Wen.  

Gert Beckhaus directed the Nefertiti Jones, Lady Nice-Nice and Delta Washington stories, he mainly plied his trade in German television and directed one other movie, 1980’s THE GIRL IN THE PINK FIAT.

Sun Yun-Wen had a long career in the Hong Kong movie industry, as an actor turned director of REVENGE OF THE EIGHT DAUGHTERS (1976), THE DRAGON'S MISTRESS (1977), SUPER VIXENS FROM SHAOLIN (1978), FIVE DEADLY FINGERS, FIVE BLOODY KNUCKLES (1981) aka. THE MAN FROM LA CHOY and KUNG FU TROUBLEMAKERS (1983).












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