Les Trottoirs de Bangkok
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Les Trottoirs des Bangkok (The Sidewalks of Bangkok) is a 1984 film directed by Jean Rollin
Jean Rollin
Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his films in the fantastique genre such as the vampire film Le Viol du Vampire and the first French gore film Les Raisins de la Mort .-Early life:Jean Rollin was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine , France to...

. The film is inspired by the 1932 Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff
William Henry Pratt , better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor.Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein , Bride of Frankenstein , and Son of Frankenstein...

 classic The Mask of Fu Manchu
The Mask of Fu Manchu
The Mask of Fu Manchu is a Pre-Code adventure film released in 1932, featuring Boris Karloff as Fu Manchu and Myrna Loy as his daughter. The movie revolves around Fu Manchu's quest for the sword and mask of Genghis Khan. Lewis Stone plays his nemesis...

and is not what you would usually expect from a Rollin movie - vampires, dream-like atmospheres and crumbling chateau's, instead here he mixes themes of adventure, crime and mystery with comic book dialogue and still features naked women and sex, something his films are well known for.

Plot

The film begins with a French secret service agent by the name of Rick is shot and killed, his friend Jacques retrieves his camera which contains his last film which Rick had on him when he was found. On the film there are shots of a young woman named Eva and the FSS concludes that she has what Rick was killed for, a deadly substance that would kill an entire city if released. The FSS fly back to Bangkok to search for Eva, who works in a local brothel. Two women break into the FSS apartmentand kill a man and retrieve the film canister, these women work for an evil syndicate which is run by a lady who is also in search of Eva. Since the FSS cannot afford to fly out to Paris, the Syndicate get to Eva first.

Eva is helped by Claudine, another woman who works for the syndicate by trying to arrange for her to be taken away on board a cargo ship and smuggled into France. Claudine has a man from the FSS murdered and then pretends to be his wife when Roger, the FSS agent arrives. She takes him to the nightclub where they pretend that that Eva is nowhere to be found. It is during this visit that the film comes out in the open and reveals itself for exactly what it is. Claudine tries to protect Eva, but are later captured by the syndicate. Eva is chained up and whipped, Claudine tried to save her but is killed. It turns out that Rick was not murdered after all and shows up to rescue Eva, killing everyone, and then tells Eva that he must kill her too, but Eva over powers him and kills him instead.

Cast

  • Yoko - Eva
  • Françoise Blanchard
    Françoise Blanchard
    Françoise Blanchard is a French actress known for her role in Jean Rollin's 1982 horror film La Morte Vivante...

     - Claudine
  • Jean-Claude Benhamou - Le Chef des Espions
  • Jean-Pierre Bouyxou
    Jean-Pierre Bouyxou
    Jean-Pierre Bouyxou is a French film critic, author, filmmaker and actor.-Career:He started his career as a writer in 1964 when his article was published in fanzines...

     - Capitaine Bouyxou
  • Jean-Paul Bride - Tong
  • Gérard Landry
    Gerard Landry
    Gérard Landry was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and began acting in 1932 with his first movie Mirages de Paris. He had acted for over fifty years and has been in over ninety films...

     - Rick
  • Brigitte Borghese
    Brigitte Borghese
    Brigitte Borghese is an Israeli-born actress. She is best known for her roles in Jean Rollin's Les Trottoirs de Bangkok and Operation Las Vegas.-Early life:Brigitte Borghese was born in 1955 in Israel...

     - Rita
  • Chokie
  • Michel Guibe
  • Antonina Laurent
  • Pierre Pattin
  • Tiane Pochier
  • Olivier Rollin
  • André-Richard Volniévy
  • Jean Rollin
    Jean Rollin
    Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his films in the fantastique genre such as the vampire film Le Viol du Vampire and the first French gore film Les Raisins de la Mort .-Early life:Jean Rollin was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine , France to...

     - Un Tueur (uncredited)

DVD

Released on Region 1 in the US on August 27, 2002 by Image Entertainment in a widescreen edition. The special features include a stills gallery, cast and crew biographies and trailers.

Released in UK on Region 0 on June 28, 2004 by Redemption in full frame. The special features include the theatrical trailer, trailers, stills gallery, publicity, video art and a music video.

External Links

  • Les Trottoirs de Bangkok at the internet movie database
    Internet Movie Database
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