- John Gale (director)
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John Gale (UK director) "John Gale, born Jun Gallardo, was a Filipino
B-movie director, who started his career withmartial arts movies in the 70's and continued toZ-movie actioners in the 80's, often produced byK.Y. Lim 's "Silver Star Film Company". "Silver Star" was a notorious but prolific producer of extremely low-budgetaction films , characterized by very low production values.Gale directed
Richard Harrison in "Intrusion Cambodia" AKA "Rescue Team" (1981), also starring a cast of "Silver Star" workhorses such asRomano Kristoff ,James Gaines ,Mike Monty ,Mike Cohen , andRonnie Patterson . Theassistant director of "Intrusion Cambodia" wasTeddy Page , another prolific "Silver Star" director. Gale directed Kristoff and Monty again in "Slash" (1984), a film influenced by theRambo series starringSylvester Stallone , to the point of plagiarism. "Slash" also featuredNick Nicholson and Gwendolyn Hung. Another film of debatable note was "Commando Invasion" (1986), which featuredGordon Mitchell , Ken Watanabe (not to be confused with the more famous Ken Watanabe) and former modelTetchie Agbayani (as Carol Roberts, also in "Intrusion Cambodia").Gale also directed
Christopher Mitchum thrice, in "Master Samurai" ("1974"), "Commander Firefox" (1983) and "SFX Retaliator" (1987).He seems to be now retired from film.
External links
*imdb name|id=0302619|name=John Gale
* [http://www.nanarland.com/Chroniques/Main.php?id_film=ultimemission A review of "Intrusion Cambodia" on the French B-movie website "Nanarland", in French.]
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