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form y separately published work icon Deathcheaters single work   film/TV   adventure   thriller   crime  
Alternative title: Death Cheaters
Issue Details: First known date: 1976... 1976 Deathcheaters
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The Australian government hires two Vietnam vets (now working as stuntmen) to raid a Filipino racketeer's island stronghold and steal incriminating paperwork.

Like much of Trenchard-Smith's work from this period–including The Stuntmen (1973) and Stunt Rock (1978)–the focus of this film lay more in the stuntwork than in the plot: the lead actor, Grant Page, was a significant Australian film and television stuntman in the 1970s and 1980s.

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y separately published work icon Adventures in the B Movie Trade Brian Trenchard-Smith , United States of America (USA) : Brian Trenchard-Smith , 2020 20704470 2020 single work autobiography

'Follow the daredevil adventures of Anglo Australian film maker - and Ozploitation pioneer - Brian Trenchard-Smith through a 50 year career dedicated to giving his audience thrills, spills, laughs and gasps. "The Man From Hong Kong", "Turkey Shoot," " Dead End Drive In", "Siege Of Firebase Gloria", "Stunt Rock", "Leprechaun 3 & 4," and Nicole Kidman's first film "BMX Bandits" have earned his work a cult following. His TV output includes "Silk Stalkings"," Five Mile Creek", "Tarzan", "Flipper", "Chemistry". The Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival in Brazil honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Quentin Tarantino dubbed him his " favorite obscure director....great energy, great sense of humor." Brian Trenchard-Smith's wry, insightful tales of the creative challenges of low budget movie making all over the world is both a personal journey and a portrait of his era.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

y separately published work icon Adventures in the B Movie Trade Brian Trenchard-Smith , United States of America (USA) : Brian Trenchard-Smith , 2020 20704470 2020 single work autobiography

'Follow the daredevil adventures of Anglo Australian film maker - and Ozploitation pioneer - Brian Trenchard-Smith through a 50 year career dedicated to giving his audience thrills, spills, laughs and gasps. "The Man From Hong Kong", "Turkey Shoot," " Dead End Drive In", "Siege Of Firebase Gloria", "Stunt Rock", "Leprechaun 3 & 4," and Nicole Kidman's first film "BMX Bandits" have earned his work a cult following. His TV output includes "Silk Stalkings"," Five Mile Creek", "Tarzan", "Flipper", "Chemistry". The Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival in Brazil honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Quentin Tarantino dubbed him his " favorite obscure director....great energy, great sense of humor." Brian Trenchard-Smith's wry, insightful tales of the creative challenges of low budget movie making all over the world is both a personal journey and a portrait of his era.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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