MARK GREGORY: TEN FILMS

It’s been pointed out to me that for my look at Mark Gregory’s action films I did not provide my usual “all links in one convenient post” item after a series of themed blog posts. Here we go.

ADAM AND EVE VS THE CANNIBALS (1983) – Way back in 2014 I reviewed this quasi-peplum flick starring Mark Gregory, real name Marco De Gregorio. Instead of portraying Hercules or Maciste or Samson taking on monsters and human opponents, Mark played Adam taking on monsters and human opponents.

Andrea Goldman portrayed Eve as the couple are expelled from the Garden of Eden and clash with dinosaurs, fur-faced cavemen, giant bears and green-skinned cannibals before settling down to have children. Weird story. Weirder theology.

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THUNDER WARRIOR (1983) – The Billy Jack movies get crossed with First Blood as Mark Gregory portrays Thunder, a modern-day (1980s) Apache in Arizona. When corrupt law enforcement personnel and the businessmen who own them start hassling Thunder and his people, our hero goes into action.

Thunder’s war against his people’s modern-day oppressors escalates to wilder and wilder action set pieces as Bo Svenson portrays the pocketed lawman leading the bad guys.

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THUNDER WARRIOR II (1987) – In typical fashion for so many Italian-produced action flicks, continuity goes out the window as viewers are now told that Bo Svenson was really one of the good guys in the previous movie. Thunder is depicted joining Bo’s crooked department and busting up a drug ring while exposing corruption.

Our hero is framed for possession of drugs and once again is on the run and waging a one-man war on corrupt officialdom and their lackeys.

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THUNDER WARRIOR III (1988) – Thunder and his wife Sheena are now living with Navajo Indians in New Mexico. They get hassled and worse by dirty cops and a renegade militia leader who used to be a colonel in the United States Army.

Once again, our hero must take up arms and go into action to take down dozens of opponents while fighting for justice for the Navajos. Mark Gregory gets a lengthy motorcycle scene in this conclusion to his Thunder Warrior trilogy.

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1990: THE BRONX WARRIORS (1982) – Mark’s first of two Spaghetti-pocalypse movies that he starred in during the 1980s boom of Mad Max/ Escape from New York imitations. He portrayed the action hero called Trash, biker gang leader in a dystopian future in which the Bronx has been declared a no-man’s land where criminal gangs rule.

In between action scenes, Mark’s character gets involved in a Romeo and Juliet romance with the runaway daughter of one of New York City’s corporate overlords in the far-off year … 1990.

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ESCAPE FROM THE BRONX (1983) – Is it really an “escape” if you’re resisting forcible evacuation of the Bronx? No matter, the Escape from New York appeal is what counted in this movie.

Trash is once again up against New York’s corporate overlords of tomorrow (well, yesterday in this case) as he, a female reporter and remnants of the previous film’s gangs fight side by side to save untold numbers of people from being “relocated” to death camps.

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DELTA FORCE COMMANDO (1987) – Mr. Gregory showed what he could do as an action villain this time around. He plays the leader of communist soldiers from Nicaragua who carry out a raid on a Puerto Rico military base and make off with a nuclear weapon.

Brett Baxter Clark and Fred Williamson play Delta Force operatives who doggedly pursue Mark and his guerillas back to Nicaragua so they can prevent his group from using the purloined nuke.

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TEN ZAN: THE ULTIMATE MISSION (1988) – Mark is once again in the villain role as he portrays Jason, the merciless military leader for a group of mad scientists who use abducted human guinea pigs in their quest to genetically engineer a Master Race.

This Italian-North Korean joint venture was filmed in areas of North Korea usually forbidden to foreigners. A trio of international agents track down Jason, his troops and the mad scientists behind them to put a stop to their heinous activities.

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JUST A DAMNED SOLDIER (1988) – Mark is part of an ensemble cast in this movie. He plays “Mark”, a member of a group of freewheeling mercenaries who hire on for assorted dangerous jobs around the world.

When the mercs steal a fortune in gold from an international arms dealer who is helping the Soviets in Afghanistan, the arms dealer wants to recover the bullion and kill our heroes.

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AFGHANISTAN: THE LAST WAR BUS (1989) – Mark Gregory’s farewell to the movie industry. He portrays Johnny Hondo, a former Green Beret who covertly battles the Soviets in Afghanistan.

His latest mission involves freeing POWs in Afghanistan, recovering vital documents, and fighting his way back to the border with Pakistan. This film is at least as competent as many Cannon films of the 1980s with Chuck Norris.

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