Jump to content

Search and Destroy (1979 film)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Search and Destroy
Directed byWilliam Fruet
Written byDon Enright
Produced byJames Margellos
StarringPerry King
Don Stroud
Tisa Farrow
CinematographyRené Verzier
Music byMartin Deller
Cameron Hawkins
Ben Mink
Release date
  • 1979 (1979)
LanguageEnglish

Search and Destroy is a 1979 Canadian action-thriller film directed by William Fruet and starring Perry King, Don Stroud, and Tisa Farrow.[1][2][3]

Plot

[edit]

Members of a Vietnam veteran's old Army unit start turning up dead in Los Angeles and Niagara Falls. Ex-Colonel Kip Moore (Perry King), is pressed by Upstate New York police for details. Meanwhile, a mysterious killer with a black glove is on the loose.

Cast

[edit]

Reception

[edit]

Really Awful Movies called it..."Great Canadian exploitation fun,"[4] while TV Guide said Search and Destroy was an "empty variation on the "let's win in Vietnam" theme that emerged in the years following the American defeat."[5]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Devine, Jeremy M. (1999). Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second: A Critical and Thematic Analysis of Over 400 Films about the Vietnam War. University of Texas Press, 1999. ISBN 029271601X.
  2. ^ Cohn, Lawrence L.. "Review: Search and Destroy". Variety (303). June 10, 1981. p. 20.
  3. ^ Herridge, Frances. "Search and destroy" New York Post. June 6, 1981. p. 12.
  4. ^ "Search and Destroy". 21 November 2016.
  5. ^ "Search & Destroy".
[edit]