Alien Terminator (1988 film)
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| Directed by | Ted Archer |
| Written by | Roberto Gianviti Nello Rossati |
| Starring | Franco Nero George Kennedy |
| Cinematography | Mario DiLeo |
| Edited by | Adalberto Ceccarelli |
| Music by | Maurizio Dami |
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| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Alien Terminator (Italian: Top Line) is a 1988 Italian film directed by Nello Rossati.[1] It is an action film with a climax that includes UFOs and aliens.[2] It was released on video as Top Line.
Plot
Ted Angelo, a writer struggling with
When another merchant is murdered, Ted learns from the man who had tried to sell him the loot - a
Ted enlists a two-man
The next day, while waiting for Maureen to reach them by boat, Ted and June are attacked by another hitman. In the ensuing chase, their pursuer turns out to be a cyborg, which is gored by a bull and destroyed. That night, Maureen arrives, but as her boatman appears to be a double of the cybernetic assassin, she removes her own skin, revealing herself as an alien. Maureen tells Ted that her kind have been visiting Earth for twelve thousand years, and that with the rise of human civilization they have learned to disguise as humans, taking over all the key political and executive positions and keeping their existence a secret. She then tries to kill Ted, but is shot dead by June.
Ted and June go into hiding and are later seen living with an indigenous tribe, where Ted keeps writing the report on his findings, hoping that his story will one day leak to the public.
Cast
- Franco Nero as Ted Angelo
- George Kennedy as Heinrich Holzmann
- Deborah Moore as June (credited as Deborah Barrymore)
- Mary Stavin as Maureen De Havilland
- William Berger as Alonso Kintero
- Shirley Hernandez: Juanita
- Larry Dolgin
- Robert Redcross
Home Release
Released on Region 1 DVD on May 25, 2004 [3] Several sites have the movie available for streaming, including as of March 2022, Amazon[4]
Reception
Sci-Fi 100 found the first hour of the movie to be an Indiana Jones rip-off with little as far as sci-fi elements, but they did find the last 30 minutes to be interesting and increasing the amount of science fiction.[5] Film Authority gave the movie 3 stars, finding it a weird mishmash of Romancing the Stone, Close Encounters and The Terminator.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Claudia Mongini, Giovanni Mongini. Storia del cinema di fantascienza. Fanucci, 2000.
- ^ Thomas Weisser. Spaghetti westerns: the good, the bad, and the violent. McFarland, 1992.
- ^ "Alien Terminator". Amazon.
- ^ "Watch Top Line | Prime Video". Amazon.
- ^ "Sci-Fi 100: Movie #4: Top Line". 4 September 2012.
- ^ "Top Line 1988 **". 3 June 2019.
External links
- Alien Terminator at IMDb
