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Precious Find (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
86 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1996 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Philippe Mora

Written By:
Lenny Britton

Actors:
Rutger Hauer ..... Armond Crille
Joan Chen ..... Camilla Jones
Harold Pruett ..... Ben Rutherford
Brion James ..... Sam Horton
Morgan Hunter ..... Salomon
Don Stroud ..... Loo Seki
Philippe Mora ..... Kosnikov
Aleks Shaklin ..... Zeke / Scarface
Tim De Zarn ..... Freddie the Albino Man
Anthony Guidera ..... Jumper #1
Shay Duffin ..... Poker Player #1
Jonathan Ball ..... Poker Player #2
David Michael O'Neill ..... Poker Player #3
John Dennis Johnston ..... Bartender
John Sobestanovich ..... Roger

Synopsis:

Philippe Mora, the genre filmmaker whose marsupial-themed Howling III and alien-abduction hit Communion solidified his reputation as a director of clunky, substandard fantasy, returned with this space-set remake of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. True to form, it's a clunky mess, with Harold Pruett as a young prospector named Ben (complete with a lovable canine sidekick), who teams up with gambler Armand Crile (Rutger Hauer) and a shifty engineer named Horton (Brion James) to look for Au79, a valuable ore also called "Precious." Mora throws in everything but the kitchen sink with sabotage, explosions, crazed hijackings, and a few tacky aliens in an obligatory cantina scene. He also includes a lame CGI monster and some campy humor (as if Don Stroud as a long-haired Asian robot wasn't campy enough). Brion James steals the show as the cynical Horton, and even gets to sing, while Mora makes a cameo appearance as a scummy merchant. Despite its outer-space setting, the science fiction elements pretty much fall by the wayside once the cast leaves the moon and gets to Asteroid 18, which may as well be Bronson Canyon in an old B-Western. While it is true that most science fiction movies are basically frontier Westerns at heart anyway, this one forces the issue in such a way that one can only wonder why Mora didn't just do a straight ripoff of Sierra Madre rather than adding the unnecessary spaceships. Probably because low-budget sci-fi rents and low-budget Westerns don't.

Ben Rutherford, a man looking for work, arrives on Moon City, a colony on the moon to find work as a miner. On Moon City, Ben meets a pilot named Sam Horton and a gambler named Armond Crille. Armond has won the readout of the remote planet 'Asteroid 13' from a poker opponent in a poker game and Ben encourages both Sam and Armond to travel to 'Asteroid 13' to do mining, believing Asteroid 13 maybe another source of gold. Joined by a woman named Camilla Jones, whom too wants to be involved with the mining on Asteroid 13, the three companions become paranoid, believing one of them may want to claim the gold for themselves. But a ruthless Chinese bandit known as Loo Seki has also arrived on 'Asteroid 13' and is also after the gold.

Three prospectors and a beautiful claim jumper race to the outer reaches of the universe in an all-out fight to raid the galaxy's richest and most dangerous goldmine.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 15 December, 2010.

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