Death Stone

Death Stone
Death Stone
Directed by	CCC Film Taprobane Pictures;
Distributed by	Ring-Film-Verleih
Release date	2 July 1987;
Running time	93 minutes (Germany)
Countries	West Germany; Sri Lanka;
Language	German

Death Stone (German: Der Stein des Todes) is a 1987 German-Sri-Lankan action film directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb and starring Albert Fortell [de], Heather Thomas, Elke Sommer, and Brad Harris.^[1] It was also released as Perahera and Jungle Fire.

Plot

While in Sri Lanka attending the

Esala Perahera festival, a man's girlfriend goes missing and is later found dead of a drug overdose. He then sets about going after the criminals who killed her.^[2]

Cast

Heather Thomas as Merryl Davis
Elke Sommer as Kris Patterson
Brad Harris as Brian
Tony Kendall as Miguel Gomez
Siegfried Rauch as Hemingway
Albert Fortell [de] as Kumar Cunningham
Serge Falck as Frank
Birte Berg as Jane Lindström
Christian Anders as Fred

Home media

In 2011 this film was released on DVD. The disc contains a German version of this film and as addition an interview with Brad Harris in English. Brad Harris talks about this film as well as about his film career in general.

Background

Brad Harris also states in the aforementioned interview he had written parts of the screenplay and was responsible for the choreography of all fights. Among other things he also mentions the Italian actors had brought provisions from Italy with them and had advised the cooks in their hotels to fix them meals à la Italian cuisine.