Les Trottoirs de Bangkok

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
Edited by Janette Kronegger
Distributed by Impex Films
Les Films ABC
Release dates
 24 October 1984
Running time
 85 mins
Country  France
Language French

Les Trottoirs des Bangkok (English title: 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]

Plot

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.

Cast

Releases

VHS

Released in France on August 18, 1999 by LCJ

DVD

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.

References

  1. ↑ "Les Trottoirs des Bangkok Review". gotterdammerung.org. Retrieved August 24, 2010.

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