Two years before the deranged genius of ROBOWAR and SHOCKING DARK, writer/director Bruno Mattei and co-writers Claudio Fragasso & Rossella Drudi borrowed from RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II, MISSING IN ACTION and more to create their own mind-blowing 'Namsploitation masterpiece STRIKE COMMANDO.
Variety has reported that Edmund Purdom, best known as Prince Karl in the 1954 MGM musical 'Student Prince,' died January 1st of natural causes in Rome, Italy. Purdom was 85.