Un vol pour l'enfer

My review was written in October 1988 after watching the film on Forum video cassette.

Producer-out-of-a-suitcase Harry Alan Towers comes up with one of his wackier efforts in "Captive Rage", an actioner set in the mythical South American nation of Parador (Paul Mazursky, please note) but lensed unconvincingly in Africa.

Pic, variously named "Fighting Fire with Fire" and "Fair Trade", stars an enthusiastic Oliver Reed as renegade Gen. Belmondo, hiding in the remote veldt of Parador with his troops. He's hopping mad when U. S. Drug Enforcement Agency topper Robert Vaughn has his son arrested as a drug kingpin. Reed retaliates by having a planeful of coeds, including Vaughn's daughter Lisa Rinna, hijacked and diverted to his camp.

The women are tortured as Reed demands his son he freed within 72 hours or 10 femmes will bite the dust. People get fed to piranhas, Rinna dn her pals escape and villainess Claudia Udy (usually cast as a vulnerable victim in pics like these) torments a few girls until an angry Rinna returns and gives Reed what-for.

Among the pic's sillier elements is the instant transition of girls from Loyola Marymount into dead-eye shots accomplished with automatic weaponry, mowing down Reed's soldiers with ease.

Formula of women in bondage clearly is still in vogue, but "Captive Rage" has little to offer in the way of novelty once its oddball setting is established. Tech credits are fine.