Tiger Joe () is a 1982 Italian adventure film written and directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring David Warbeck, Annie Belle and Tony King.Ben Cobb. "Jungle fever: ‘The last hunter’" in Search & destroy. Creation Books, 2003. Chapter. 4, pp. 57-63.Kim Worthy. "Tiger Joe" in Vietnam War Feature Filmography: An Encyclopedic Reference of Imaginative Films about Vietnam. J.-J. Malo, 1992. pp. 391-2.
Plot Tiger Joe is a former US Army Special Forces Vietnam Veteran now gunrunning to anti-Khmer Rouge freedom fighters. When his plane is shot down, Tiger Joe joins a female rebel in her fight.
Cast David Warbeck as Joe "Tiger Joe" Annie Belle as Kia Tony King as "Midnight" Washington Alan Collins as Lenny Giancarlo Badessi as Bronski
Production Cinematographer Riccardo Pallottini died in a helicopter crash during production.Margheriti and The Last Hunter Documentary, 2007. Last accessed: September 2008.
Reception Italian critic Tullio Kezich praised the film, claiming that it "is shot with a variety of images and rhythms sometimes lacking in its American counterparts" and "exudes a sense of cinema absent in works of far greater ambition".
See also List of Italian films of 1982
References
External links
Tiger Joe at Variety Distribution