The Scavengers

Starring:Vince Edwards, Carol Ohmart, Efren Reyes, Tamar Benamy, Vic Diaz, John Wallace
Director: John Cromwell
Studio: Fox Lorber
Product Type: DVD

Description

An American smuggler looking to turn legit spots his missing wife on a boat leaving Hong Kong. After tracking her to Macao, he discovers that she is entangled in criminal activities involving narcotics and stolen government bonds.

Customer Reviews:

Don't turn on the lights, Stu.......2004-07-15

Stuart Allison is a two-bit smuggler based in Hong Kong who's ready to get out. One day while settling accounts with his partner he sees a beautiful blond woman board a ship and bolts out of the café. The ship sets sail while Allison is still duking it out with the boarding guards. Moments after it leaves huge cans of garbage are dumped overboard and a waiting group of peasant boats follow in the wake and commence scavenging the trash. Roll opening credits....
THE SCAVENGERS stars Vince Edwards as the disillusioned Stuart Allison and Carol Ohmart as Marion Allison, the wife who'd abandoned him six years earlier. Allison is sure it was Marion who boarded the ship. Gradually we in the audience learn that Allison has been searching for Marion for six year. A short while later Allison runs into a mysterious, white-suited Chinese gentleman who tells him that the woman is indeed his wife and, for a consideration, he will let him know where she can be found.
Incongruously enough the man's name is O'Hara, and as played my Philippine actor Vic Diaz he is a delightful cross between Peter Lorre and Odd Job. O'Hara too is chasing Mrs. Allison, who was a `very special friend' of a General Wu. A few years back General Wu stole thousands of dollars worth of war bonds, and O'Hara represents a party that wants to get their hands on them. Not the only party in this chase, either.
O'Hara wants the bonds and Allison wants his wife back. A one point O'Hara offers Allison the eminently good advice to forget his wife and leave while he still can. "You are an idealist," O'Hara tells him, "and I am a scavenger. My country had survived four thousand years until it was strangled by idealists."
The discovery in THE SCAVENGERS is Carol Ohmart, who plays the difficult role of a woman who swings from dependency to despondency to defiance with consummate skill. One source says that Ohmart was signed by Paramount in 1955 as the next Marilyn Monroe, appeared in a couple of bombs and her career slowly slid into oblivion. Ohmart had sharper edges than Monroe, and I guess soft and vulnerable was in that decade. There's no other explanation. The brooding Vince Edwards is another story altogether. His career took off a few years later when he landed the television role of Ben Casey, M.D. In THE SCAVENGERS he is simply awful, an empty core in a role that would have been perfectly suited to a young John Garfield. Edwards could brood with the best of them, but he seems totally lost here. His face seems set in a grim, immobile mask. He might have been able to act, but he proves here totally incapable of re-acting, and isn't that 50% of an actors job?
The characters in THE SCAVENGERS are well conceived and the plot motors events forward briskly enough without too many dead stretches. Stuart and Allison have satisfactorily screwed up personal lives and the high contrast photography casts shadows deep enough to satisfy most film noir fans. The dialogue in THE SCAVENGERS is, for the most part, flat, uninspired and uninspiring. It lacks that testy edginess that distinguishes the great noir movies.
The three-star rating is for noir and thriller fans, or I suppose for those drawn to `50's era exotic location movies. THE SCAVENGERS is a pretty mixed bag even for the enthusiast. The movie also appears to have been copied from a number of prints. Most of the time the movie looks great, but there is a handful of times when the glittering, high contrast print is replaced by a bleached and washed out insertion.

Average customer rating:

OMIGOSH...THIS IS THE WORST EVER!!!!
Why so many bugs ???

Deadly Scavengers
Starring: Vinnie Bilancio , Zenova Braeden , Heather Branch , Steven Ray Calvert , and Roxanne Coyne
Manufacturer: Eclectic DVD Dist.
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Comedy | Genres | DVD | Video

General | Horror | Genres | DVD | Video

( D ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video

All Deals | Today's Deals in DVD | Special Features | DVD | Video

Description

Genetic researcher Dr. Hiram Fielding and his daughter Julia work alone at a remote mountain laboratory, accessible only by foot. Funded by corporate giant Justin Kamen, Fielding conducts wild, and often irresponsible, experiments into the very fabric of life. In his quest for knowledge, he accidentally creates something big and dangerous...Something hungry! One day when Kamen suddenly loses communication with the isolated lab, he gathers a team of mercenaries to hike in. Led by Capt. Jonas Splender (ex-FBI), the team of five battles old grudges and resentments as the tension runs high.

Customer Reviews:

OMIGOSH...THIS IS THE WORST EVER!!!!.......2005-04-06

DEADLY SCAVENGERS has now surpassed TAIL STING in my personal list of the worst movies ever made. There is nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, to recommend in this movie. Even though there are some moments that will make you laugh out loud, they cannot in any way redeem this flop or even enter it in the hall of fame for truly good bad movies. Here are some things to consider in this horrible horror hack:
*The soundtrack is so loud in the last fifteen minutes that you cannot hear the dialogue, not that you're missing anything.
*One victim gets his guts ripped out in one scene and the next thing we know he's walking around with the giant cockroach chasing him.
*We get the same shot of the killer cockroach each time it attacks.
*The women are some of the most unattractive females that ever appeared on film; one looks bulemic.
*The men are some of the most unattractive males ever immortalized on celluloid.
*There is no one in this movie that should ever be considered an actor, no one.
*The company that allowed this to be put on DVD should be banned from ever releasing another movie -- ever.
Really, folks, the fact that my wife and I were able to sit through it is amazing, considering the hundreds of movies we've watched in our lifetime...this is truly bad, bad bad!!!

Why so many bugs ???.......2002-07-01

There was Godzilla,There was Creature from the Black Lagoon...Then BUG-BOY ,the wannabee 'PowerRangerish'monster from DS.Not really a bad movie,just a B-movie for RAID fetishists.

DVD:

DVD

DVD

DVD

Lupin III - Voyage To Danger (Uncut)

Mission: Impossible

They Got Me Covered (REGION 1) (NTSC)

DVD: Wisegirls

When The Boat Comes In - Series 4 - Part 2