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From the B-Movie Vault: The Trial of the Incredible Hulk and The Fantastic Four (1994)
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From the B-Movie Vault Issue #18: The Trial of the Incredible Hulk and The Fantastic Four (1994)
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the latest From the B-Movie Vault. I’m Bryan Kristopowitz.
It’s been fun looking back at the reviews I did from about a decade ago for low-budget Marvel movies. Like I said last issue, it’s a shame that we will likely never get any comic book superhero movie like these low-budget Marvel movies ever again. Comic book movies have become such big business they have to be big movies, too. People expect spectacle, and you don’t get the kind of spectacle expected without spending big money.
For those of you wondering why I didn’t review the 1978 Dr. Strange TV movie that originally aired on CBS, I did review that flick and that review still exists on the internets. You can check out that review here.
Now, I have contemplated reviewing the 1977 The Amazing Spider-Man movies that were cobbled together from episodes of the old TV show. I remember watching episodes of the TV show when I was a kid and enjoying them. I seem to remember episodes of the show popping up on TV every now and then, although what I could be remembering are those movies airing on TV. It’s been so long, I just don’t know for sure. I do think they would be worth watching to sort of “complete” my look at the entirety of low-budget Marvel moviedom. Of course, I also need to get my hands on a copy of the final Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno The Incredible Hulk TV movie, The Death of the Incredible Hulk (1990). I’m really hoping that movie pops up somewhere.
The next batch of From the B-Movie Vault columns, whenever I get around to them, will likely be a look back at the first five movies in the awesome Tremors franchise. If and when I do that, it might give me the impetus to finally look at the old Tremors TV show, Tremors: The Series. I’ve been saying that for so damn long, it will have to eventually happen, right? Right?
Ha.
And so, without any further what have you, the low-budget Marvel movie lookback concludes with The Trial of the Incredible Hulk and The Fantastic Four (1994). Enjoy.
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(Author’s Note: This review originally appeared in The Gratuitous B-Movie Column issue #355, which ran at the end of April 2016)
The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989)
The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, directed by and starring Bill Bixby, is the second of three TV movie sequels to The Incredible Hulk TV show that aired on CBS in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, while the TV movie sequels all aired on NBC. Why? Damned if I know. You’d think that CBS, which was still in the TV movie business in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, would have wanted to do sequels to its old show, but then CBS did cancel the show so perhaps CBS felt that the show and anything involved with it was old news. Looking back at it, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that CBS regretted that decision. The Incredible Hulk TV movies always generated a high rating (that’s what Wikipedia tells me, anyway).
The movie starts with Bixby as David Banner working as a ditch digger in an unnamed rural area. It’s a miserable life as it’s cold, the work is hard, and Banner has to work alongside an asshole bully that gets his kicks out of smacking Banner around. Knowing what will eventually happen if the abuse continues, Banner decides to quit the ditch digging job and move on to someplace else. But where? Banner believes that going to the big city will provide him with the anonymity that he craves. So Banner walks to the big city which, just like the rural area, isn’t named. The city does have several skyscrapers in it, so, you know, it qualifies as being a big city.
So Banner arrives in the big city, rents a room in a rundown hotel that specializes in housing to homeless people, and starts looking for a job. After wandering the streets aimlessly and checking out the jobs section of the local newspaper, Banner decides to hitch a ride on the subway. While on the subway, Banner witnesses the harassment of a fellow rider, Ellie Mendez (Marta Dubois), by two scumbags that just participated in a high stakes jewelry store robbery. High on adrenaline from the robbery, the one scumbag decides to harass Mendez because she’s there on the train, she’s attractive, and, well, he’s a scumbag. Banner decides to try to help Mendez, despite the fact that such a stressful situation could result in an appearance of Banner’s gigantic, green skinned alter ego the Hulk. Banner’s attempt is easily thwarted by the scumbags, and Banner is chucked behind a seat on the train. However, before the scumbags can rape Mendez (because, let’s face it, that’s what the harassment was going to lead to if no one intervened), Banner hulks out and beats the shit out of the scumbags. As he tends to do once he’s righted a wrong or just smashed something, the Hulk (Lou Ferrigno) runs away into the subway tunnels so he can calm down and transform back into Banner. Just as he finishes transforming, Banner is arrested by the police and charged with murder. Murder? Who did he kill? Well, technically, while Banner/the Hulk didn’t deliberately kill anyone, the Hulk’s actions in the subway train did lead to one of the robbery scumbags shooting an innocent bystander standing just outside of the train. So Banner is sent to jail.
So then some stuff happens, the media gets a hold of the subway shooting story, and principled local lawyer and blind man Matt Murdock (Street Hawk hisself Rex Smith) decides to try to help Banner with his legal troubles. Banner isn’t too keen on Murdock’s help at first, as Murdock asks too many questions that Banner would rather not answer (like who is that green guy?). But Murdock refuses to take Banner’s advice to stay away and decides to look into Banner’s case and help him out. Murdock believes that Banner’s case may be related to a recent crime wave initiated by Wilson Fisk (John Rhys Davies), a local big time businessman who owns the city’s newest and tallest skyscraper. Fisk is also likely responsible for the city’s massive corruption problem, as local politicians and tons of police officers, among others, are believed to be on Fisk’s payroll. Murdock figures if he can actually prove any sort of criminal connection to Fisk, Fisk’s criminal activities will end and the city can be saved. But what are the odds of that happening? What can one young, enterprising lawyer actually do to fight corruption?
In walks Daredevil, Murdock’s vigilante alter ego that prowls the streets at night, protecting the innocent while taking down the bad guys. The public generally likes Daredevil but isn’t quite sure that he’s real, which is exactly what Murdock needs in order to continue fighting the bad guys. The police chief, Albert G. Tendelli (Joseph Mascolo), one of the few public officials not on Fisk’s payroll, knows that Daredevil is real and is able to contact him when he needs him via a super futuristic (for the time) cell phone hookup.
So in the midst of all of the investigating and vigilante brutality and whatnot, Fisk kidnaps Mendez and concocts a scheme to use her to lure Daredevil into a trap so he can destroy him. Fisk has major plans for his criminal enterprise and doesn’t want Daredevil around to screw up those plans.
Now, you’ll notice after about thirty minutes or so that the movie isn’t a court room drama featuring the Hulk. In fact, there’s only one real court scene in the entire movie and it’s a David Banner dream sequence where he flips out on the stand, becomes the Hulk in the middle of his own trial, and destroys the courtroom. And the whole reason for Banner’s incarceration is eventually completely forgotten and the movie becomes all about taking down Fisk’s criminal enterprise. So why the heck is the movie called The Trial of the Incredible Hulk? Damned if I know. It’s a cool title and, hey, there is that one scene in the courtroom. Why not call it The Trial of the Incredible Hulk? Banner’s life is an endless trial so, you know, it works.
Bixby, as director, manages to strike a nice balance between the sort of “real world” that Banner finds himself in and the outwardly comic book plots that dot the movie’s story. The jewelry store robbery sequence is chock full of nifty props that could only exist in a comic book movie. And Fisk’s HQ looks exactly like you’d expect a comic book movie crime boss HQ to look. And take a look at Fisk’s helicopter, which shows up at the end of the movie and would have been one of the greatest superhero movie toys of the late 1980’s (why the hell hasn’t anyone made that helicopter? You’d think, with the endless collectibles that exist in this world that some company would have made a toy of that helicopter by now). The movie also occasionally has a weird, surreal feeling to it, similar to the old Freddy’s Nightmares TV show. I’m going to assume that this surreal feeling is due to speeding up the film every so often, but I could be wrong about that (and probably am).
I’m going to assume that the generic, unnamed city that the movie takes place in is meant to be New York City or Los Angeles, although it doesn’t really look like either one of those cities. I like how it doesn’t have a name. It’s weird and strange, yes, as movies featuring “big cities” tend to give said big cities names, but just being “the big city” here is a nice change of pace. I always figured that most of the small towns that Banner visited on the TV show were made up to begin with, so why not continue the tradition here with an unnamed big city?
Bixby does a fine job as Banner. You can tell that he’s tired and near the end of his rope, having been in hiding for over a decade and just wants to find a solid place to hide or die. He’s still a man of integrity, though, and it’s really the only thing that seems to keep him going. Ferrigno only shows up three times but is still as imposing as ever as the Hulk. The subway scene is actually kind of scary when the camera zooms in on Ferrigno’s face. And be on the lookout for the purple pants that the Hulk wears in the courtroom dream sequence, as it’s apparently the first time the Hulk was ever seen in live action form wearing his iconic purple pants. I do have a question, though concerning Banner’s beard. Banner has a beard through most of the first half of the movie. Why didn’t the Hulk also have that beard when Banner hulked out in the subway car? And why would Banner have that beard again when he transformed back into Banner? Any Hulk experts out there that can explain this?
Rex Smith does an outstanding job as Murdock/Daredevil. He, too, is a man of integrity as Murdock, and he’s a total badass when he puts on the black Daredevil outfit, which looks way better than I remember it looking. Various articles on the internets claim that The Trial of the Incredible Hulk was meant to be a sort of back door pilot for a possible Daredevil TV show. Why didn’t it happen? I’d love to know. A Daredevil show starring Rex Smith would have kicked ass. He was Street Hawk, and I’m sure we all remember how awesome that was back in the day.
John Rhys-Davies does a great job as crime lord Wilson Fisk. Yes, he’s playing the Kingpin, although no one ever refers to him as that and he isn’t bald. Fisk is basically your typical action movie/comic book movie villain: imposing, rules by fear, both insane and kind of an asshole. Rhys-Davies does, though, inject a bit of weirdness into Fisk that makes him creepy as hell in certain scenes. When he puts on those mirrored sunglasses while sitting in the dark you wonder what the hell is wrong with him. Is he blind, too? He isn’t, but then, hey, you never know. Fisk has access to all sorts of cutting edge technology. Maybe those sunglasses give him power that allows him to see for periods of time? I mean, it’s possible, right?
Nicholas Hormann is interesting as Fisk’s main henchman Edgar. He’s pathetic, yes, but he also has a heart and you wonder why he’s still working for Fisk, especially when he reveals he has feelings for the kidnapped Mendez. Marta Dubois is okay as Ellie Mendez. She doesn’t have much to do beyond scream and look afraid, but when she’s on screen she is fun to watch, so that’s a good thing. Richard Cummings, Jr. does an interesting job as Al, Murdock’s secretary, as does Nancy Everhard as Murdock’s fellow lawyer Christa Klein. Would they have been on the potential Daredevil TV show? Probably. Would they have ever found out that Murdock is Daredevil? I wish I knew.
The Trial of the Incredible Hulk is a blast from start to finish. Fans of the old The Incredible Hulk TV show will probably dig it more than people unfamiliar with the show, but it’s still worth checking out just to see the first live-action Daredevil performance. I’m telling ya, a Daredevil TV show starring Rex Smith would have rocked. It really would have.
See The Trial of the Incredible Hulk. See it, see it, goddamn see it.
So what do we have here?
Dead bodies: 2
Explosions: Multiple.
Nudity?: None. It’s a TV movie.
Doobage: Ditch digging. Hitchhiking. A dumpy hotel motel. An elaborate jewelry store robbery. A seriously smoking car diversion. Attempted subway assault and rape. Door destruction. An accidental shooting. A killer nurse. Exploding life support machine with electrocution. Jailhouse contraband. Attempted jail murder. Kidnapping. A scary court room dream sequence. Body throwing. Chair throwing. Jury box destruction. Mace to the face. Table breaking. Body through a window. Choking. Off screen jail cell destruction. Beard shaving. A training montage. A big trap. More door destruction. More body throwing. A major palm thrust to the head. Fondling via security camera. Champagne glasses full of diamonds. A zip line. Attempted axe attack. Pillow throwing. Vase to the back of the head. Movie screen destruction. A giant helicopter.
Kim Richards?: None.
Gratuitous: Clips from the old The Incredible Hulk TV show. Bill Bixby. A massive skyscraper. A potential tripping hazard. Touching glass to feel the warmth. A homeless woman who isn’t really a homeless woman. “Daredevil rules” graffiti. Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk. Face fondling. David Belsum. A collapsible walking stick. Super hearing. John Rhys-Davies. John Rhys-Davies wearing reflective sunglasses. A talking calculator. Attempted sharp metal stick through the back. Stan Lee as a juror. The Hulk wearing purple pants. Old chunky computers. Animated blind man vision. A butterfly knife. An untraceable cell phone. An old movie studio. The “sad walking away Hulk music” playing at the end.
Best lines: “Can’t just keep moving on. You gotta stop somewhere.” “Remember tinker toys?” “Are you nervous? Shut up!” “Look, I didn’t ask for this. I’m busy this life.” “Maybe I belong in a cage.” “Who are you? Nobody.” “I know the truth when I hear it. Call it my compensation.” “I want you to bring in more hawks to keep the pigeons on the road.” “Daredevil.” “Are you sleeping a full seven hours a night, Edgar?” “She is pretty, Edgar.” “What an interesting woman.” “I can’t stand trial! You have no choice!” “If I tell you about a giant with green skin will you believe me?” “That’s a very noisy knife.” “This knife hurts my ears.” “Don’t hurt anybody, Turk. Be good. Read a book.” “Why are you so alone? We’re both alone.” “Hey, are the drinks still on Turk? Get yourself some OJ, my friend.” “This will be the greatest performance of your life. And the last.” “What is happening?.” “David, you poor soul.” “Sometimes he keeps me so far away from him. It hurts, Al.” “Is Miss Mendez still alive? Yes. Why?” “Sometimes I save lives. When I can.” “Diamonds!” “An octopus cannot only be legs.” “Catch her screams, Edgar. Be sure to catch them all.” “You’re crazy to come here. I like it here. It’s quiet.” “Intermission!” “Things happen in the night.”
Rating: 9.0/10.0
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(Author’s Note: this review originally appeared in The Gratuitous B-Movie Column issue #354, which ran towards the end of April 2016 )
The Fantastic Four (1994)
The Fantastic Four, directed by Oley Sassone, is the infamous low-budget comic book superhero movie that no one was ever supposed to see. Produced so the rights holders could keep those rights in order to eventually make a “bigger,” “better” movie in the future, it has never been officially released by anyone and, according to Wikipedia, it doesn’t technically exist anymore as a movie as all prints have apparently been destroyed. You can still see it, though, as you can buy it as a bootleg or watch it on the internets (a big thank you to the people responsible for bootlegging the movie themselves in the first place so the world could eventually see it). The Fantastic Four (1994) isn’t a great movie, but it does have enough personality and energy to be watchable. It’s also kind of fun in a weird way.
The Fantastic Four (1994) stars Alex Hyde-White as Dr. Reed Richards, a prominent scientist who, along with his team/colleagues Susan Storm (Rebecca Staab), Johnny Storm (Jay Underwood), and Ben Grimm (Michael Bailey Smith), fly off into space in a sort of homemade spaceship in order to capture the essence of Colossus, a big hooha space anomaly thing that’s been a big deal in Richards’ life since he started studying it in college. Using a special diamond to power the ship and capture Colossus, Richards’ ship malfunctions and collides with a massive space energy that sends the ship crashing back to Earth. Richards and his team should be dead after the crash but, somehow, they’re all still alive. How the hell did that happen?
So then some stuff happens, Richards and his team are picked up by a military unit, and government scientists try to figure out what happened to Richards and his team while they were in space. Why did the ship malfunction? How did Richards and everyone else survive the crash? And why the hell do they all seem to now have super powers? Richards can stretch his limbs out as though he’s made of rubber. Susan Storm can turn herself invisible. Johnny Storm can essentially control fire. And Ben Grimm is now a giant rock monster (at this point in the movie Grimm is played by Carl Ciarfilo). How did all of this happen?
As the U.S. government tries to figure out what happened, the mysterious Dr. Doom of Latveria (Joseph Culp) hovers in the background. Clad in a green cape and scary metal armor, Dr. Doom uses his considerable wealth, power, and influence to send henchmen all over the world to investigate strange goings on concerning Colossus. Doom, too, wants to research and harness the power of Colossus and use it to, I guess, take over the world and whatnot. Hanging out in a nifty castle on top of a mountain in the rather drab Latveria just isn’t enough. Doom also wants to take out Richards, his old friend and rival from college. See, Richards and Doom, formerly Victor Von Doom, were friends and rivals back in college and, while researching Colossus, Victor was seriously injured by an energy blast. After dying and somehow coming back to life, Victor eventually became Dr. Doom and demanded vengeance. Reed Richards has to pay for his mistakes.
Now, had the movie been just about the big rivalry between Richards and Doom and the origin of the Fantastic Four team it would have been more narratively successful. However, for reasons that are simply beyond me, a good third of the movie is devoted to a group of weird beard underground mutants led by an ugly dwarf named the Jeweler (Ian Trigger). The Jeweler is directly responsible for Richards’ space ship malfunctioning but isn’t the story’s villain. The Jeweler isn’t a Doom henchman, either. In fact, it’s almost like the Jeweler is the main character in some other movie that somehow managed to physically implant itself into The Fantastic Four. The Jeweler really doesn’t fit in with everything else that we see from both Richards and Doom, and his presence will likely cause you massive confusion. I mean, that’s what happened to me.
Now, if you remove the bits with the Jeweler, The Fantastic Four is a fairly nifty low-budget comic book movie. It tries very hard to be a bigger movie than it really is, and that effort can be infectious every so often. The movie’s special effects are uneven but are surprisingly fun to look at. Johnny Storm’s fireball bit towards the end of the movie is a low-budget animation tour de force. Some of the fight scenes are poorly staged, but some of them do work. Any time Doom’s machine gun wielding henchmen show up the movie picks up a bit. And the costumes for Dr. Doom and Ben Grimm/The Thing are nothing short of amazing. They both look like comic book characters come to life. The blue spandex Fantastic Four outfits are a little lackluster, but then, really, they’re just blue tights with the number “4” on them. Isn’t that what the Fantastic Four are supposed to look like?
The performances are decent enough. Alex Hyde-White makes Reed Richards the sort of clean cut good guy you expect to see because, well, that’s what Reed Richards is. He seems like the kind of guy a team of scientists might follow into space. Rebecca Staab does a god job as Susan Storm, trying to keep her wacky brother Johnny in line while pursuing her work and the heart of Reed Richards. Staab has excellent chemistry with Hyde-White and you totally buy them as a couple.
Jay Underwood doesn’t really push the wacky envelope enough as Johnny Storm, but he’s still a bit of a loose cannon and that’s what you need with a guy that can control fire. Michael Bailey Smith makes Ben Grimm one of the smartest lunkheads in movie history. I would like to know why Smith didn’t wear the Thing costume. Carl Ciarfilo does a great job as the Thing, but he doesn’t appear to be as tall or naturally imposing as Smith. Why wasn’t the Thing even bigger?
Joseph Culp does an okay job as the dour asshole Victor Von Doom, but when he puts on the Dr. Doom costume he becomes a powerful, scenery chewing villain. I, personally, don’t think there’s enough of Dr. Doom in The Fantastic Four. If only he could have been in the scenes that were given to the Jeweler character.
Commandant Eric Lassard hisself George Gaynes shows up at the very beginning of the movie as a college professor who explains what Colossus is. Gaynes really only has one scene but he kicks ass in it. And Kat Green does a good job as Alicia Masters, Ben Grimm’s blind girlfriend, although she spends way too much time dealing with the Jeweler.
And while I don’t really care for the character, Ian Trigger does an admirable job as the Jeweler. He doesn’t really belong in this movie, but he tries to make the best of things and is incredibly weird. Where the hell did he come from anyway?
The Fantastic Four (1994) ends with the prospect of a sequel, a sequel that would likely have been a little more focused and viscerally exciting. Maybe. The Fantastic Four (1994) was allegedly made for around one million dollars and, when you realize that, it’s an amazing achievement that a watchable superhero movie was made at all. A sequel probably would have been produced for either the same budget or a much lower one, depending on how much money the first one made. Would that sequel have been watchable? We’ll never know.
And that’s sad. There’s quite a bit of potential in The Fantastic Four (1994). If it had been allowed to be seen, maybe it would have found an audience and a small franchise could have been initiated. It’s not like anyone really wanted that Rise of the Silver Surfer sequel that was eventually made after the Jessica Alba Fantastic Four was made. The world probably would have been better off with Alex Hyde-White and company taking on Dr. Doom and, maybe, other comic book villains.
Oh, well, at least The Fantastic Four hasn’t been completely blotted out and disappeared. It’s not great, but it’s watchable. Kind of fun, too. Kind of.
See The Fantastic Four. See it, see it, see it.
So what do we have here?
Dead bodies: A bunch. I’d say over twenty.
Explosions: A few.
Nudity?: None.
Doobage: Some cheesy low budget shots of space and stuff happening in space. A classroom full of seemingly bored students. Attempting to harness the energy of tomorrow. A weird electrocution. A weird mutant dwarf guy in the sewer. A broken statue. A wicked security system. A floating pen. Exploding space ship. A mega cheap but charming rubber extending arm special effect. A group of weird mutants in the sewer. Knockout gas. A military search party. Stool breaking. A sewer mutant ambush. Chair bondage. Serious door breaking. Multiple machine gun attacks. Wall breaking. Serious body throwing. A very long leg. A massive punch to the face. More wall breaking. Blood test hooey. A very cool hand gun. Some bullshit in Latveria. A laser attack. Claws. Rubber arm attack. The abyss below. A living glove. Some very cool low-budget “guy on fire” animation. A wedding.
Kim Richards?: None.
Gratuitous: George Gaynes. Cartoon animated video games. Blind woman sculpting a head out of clay. A mutant dwarf. Psychedelic space montage. Superimposed small fire in a guy’s hand. Multiple spinning newspapers. Flower smelling. Spinning screen and off screen beat down. A laptop computer. Stock footage of nuclear bombs destroying shacks in the desert.
Best lines: “In a hurry? Yes. I’m actually running late.” “He’s dreamy. You’re gross.” “Colossus is here!” “I will not fail! I will not fail!” “Hi, Mrs. Storm! Can Johnny and Susan go to outer space with us?” “This is crazy, Ben, what do they know about astrophysics?” “Anyone for a ride in a rocket ship?” “Look at you! The Fantastic Four!” “There it is! I can smell a diamond one hundred miles away!” “You ask me nothing! Do as you’re told!” “Yeah! Ride’em cowboy!” “Look at you! Look at us!” “Alive? What do you mean alive?” “Hey, what’s going on?” “What kind of thing have I turned into?” “Look! Aha! Bingo!” “It’s clobbering’ time!” “What are you, man? What are you?” “We are the Fantastic Four, remember? More like the Terrific Three.” “You touch it and she dies! So? I mean it! Please, don’t let me stop you.” “Doom! It’s clobbering’ time!” “It’s clobbering’ time! For real!” “Flame on!” “It’s not like you to run away from a challenge, Victor.” “I’ll try not to get into any trouble until you get back.”
Rating: 6.9/10.0
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The Trial of the Incredible Hulk
Bill Bixby– David Banner
Lou Ferrigno– The Hulk
Rex Smith– Matt Murdock/Daredevil
John Rhys-Davies– Wilson Fisk
Marta Dubois– Ellie Mendez
Nancy Everhard– Christa Klein
Nicholas Hormann– Edgar
Richard Cummings, Jr.– Al Pettiman
Joseph Mascolo– Albert G. Tendelli
Mark Acheson– Turk
Directed by Bill Bixby
Screenplay by Gerald Dipego
Distributed by NBC, Lakeshore Entertainment, New World International, and Image Entertainment
Not Rated
Runtime– 96 minutes
Buy it here
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The Fantastic Four
Alex Hyde-White– Dr. Reed Richards
Jay Underwood– Johnny Storm
Rebecca Staab– Susan Storm
Michael Bailey Smith– Ben Grimm
Carl Ciarfalio– Thing
Ian Trigger– The Jeweler
Joseph Culp– Dr. Doom Victor Von Doom
George Gaynes– Professor
Kat Green– Alicia Masters
Directed by Oley Sassone
Screenplay by Craig J. Nevius and Kevin Rock, based on characters created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee
Produced by Constantin Film Produktion and New Horizons
Not Rated
Runtime– 90 minutes
