| Les Trottoirs de Bangkok | |
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| Directed by | Jean Rollin |
| Produced by | André Samarcq |
| Written by | Jean-Claude Benhamou |
| Starring | Yoko Françoise Blanchard Jean-Claude Benhamou Jean-Pierre Bouyxou Jean-Paul Bride Gérerd Landry Brigitte Borghese |
| Music by | Georges Lartigau |
| Editing by | Janette Kronegger |
| Distributed by | Impex Films Les Films ABC |
| Release date(s) | October 24, 1984 |
| Running time | 85 mins |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Les Trottoirs des Bangkok (English: The Sidewalks of Bangkok) is a 1984 film directed by Jean Rollin. The film is inspired by the 1932 Boris Karloff classic The Mask of Fu Manchu and is not what you would usually expect from a Rollin movie - vampires, dream-like atmospheres and crumbling chateau's, instead here he mixes themes of adventure, crime and mystery with comic book dialogue and still features naked women and sex, something his films are well known for.[1]
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The film begins with a French secret service agent by the name of Rick is shot and killed, his friend Jacques retrieves his camera which contains his last film which Rick had on him when he was found. On the film there are shots of a young woman named Eva and the FSS concludes that she has what Rick was killed for, a deadly substance that would kill an entire city if released. The FSS fly back to Bangkok to search for Eva, who works in a local brothel. Two women break into the FSS apartmentand kill a man and retrieve the film canister, these women work for an evil syndicate which is run by a lady who is also in search of Eva. Since the FSS cannot afford to fly out to Paris, the Syndicate get to Eva first.
Eva is helped by Claudine, another woman who works for the syndicate by trying to arrange for her to be taken away on board a cargo ship and smuggled into France. Claudine has a man from the FSS murdered and then pretends to be his wife when Roger, the FSS agent arrives. She takes him to the nightclub where they pretend that that Eva is nowhere to be found. It is during this visit that the film comes out in the open and reveals itself for exactly what it is. Claudine tries to protect Eva, but are later captured by the syndicate. Eva is chained up and whipped, Claudine tried to save her but is killed. It turns out that Rick was not murdered after all and shows up to rescue Eva, killing everyone, and then tells Eva that he must kill her too, but Eva over powers him and kills him instead.
Released in France on August 18, 1999 by LCJ
Released on Region 1 in the US on August 27, 2002 by Image Entertainment in a widescreen edition. The special features include a stills gallery, cast and crew biographies and trailers.
Released in UK on Region 0 on June 28, 2004 by Redemption in full frame. The special features include the theatrical trailer, trailers, stills gallery, publicity, video art and a music video.
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