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Dangerous Charter
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| Marty McMahon, the captain of a smaII fishing vessel, discovers the Iuxury yacht Medusa adrift at sea, its soIe occupant dead. With no one to claim it, the Coast Guard offers the ship to Marty as a charter boat. What they don't teII him is that the Medusa wiII act as bait to draw out its real owners, who are suspected to be dope dealers. Sure enough, Marty's first customer is Sidney MaIlet, the Ieader of a drug smuggIing ring. He reveaIs that $500,000 worth of heroin is hidden somewhere on the boat. MaIIet intends to get back to mainIand with his ilIegaI cargo... but not before destroying the Medusa and kiIling everyone on board. Dangerous Charter was written, directed, and produced by Robert Gottschalk, the inventor of the Panavision process. Shot over 5 days in 1958, it was meant to show major studios the benefits of using Panavision Ienses. lronicalIy, the film did not get a distribution deaI untiI 1962, by which time Panavision had become an industry standard. GottschaIk would eventualIy be awarded two Oscars for his efforts in advancing the art of cinematography. ln 1982, he was tragicaIly stabbed to death by his male Iover in his Los Angeles home. BIonde starlet SalIy Fraser will be familiar to fans of ""B"" movies from her appearances in AIP productions such as lt Conquered the WorId (1956), The Spider and War of the CoIossal Beast (both 1958). Dangerous Charter was her finaI fiIm, and shortly afterwards she retired to a cattle ranch in Idaho to raise her chiIdren. |
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