#SUSAN GEORGE ENTER THE NINJA TV#

Probably the first film I saw her in.Д®ven the ending is rather campy as Nero, like heвЂ™s Richard Kimble getting set to move on to his next adventure for next weekвЂ™s episode of The Fugitive winks at the camera after responding to SusanвЂ™s begging question, вЂњWill you write?вЂќ

Miss Susan is of course a favorite from my early years of watching movies going back to Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry. Christopher George, always an actor I liked growing up gets his chance to play a Bond like villain on a low budget scale and has fun with the role. Nero may be dubbed and I canвЂ™t for the life of me imagine why but that only adds to the campy quality on screen. I can easily guarantee you IвЂ™ll be watching this one again and now that IвЂ™ve seen it, I have to wonder what took me so long in the first place. Make that NeroвЂ™s double in long shots and Franco for the grimacing close ups.ДЄnyone care to guess who wins the final showdown? Only after Nero takes out more flunkies than I can count. Time for the nasty Kosugi to reappear for a showdown with Nero. When the hoodlums he continually sends in return beaten all to hell, he decides he needs a ninja of his own to face off against this man with the lethal weapon hands. Apparently thereвЂ™s oil under the ground that is worth a fortune. All he wants is to acquire the land owned by Susan. Keeping the camp quotient at a high is Christopher George taking on the role of the baddie. In no time at all, sheвЂ™ll join him for a night of passion once the script points out that hubby Alex isnвЂ™t much of a lover. Here in this 80вЂ™s update, Miss George has no problem with that mentally taxing decision. In the classic western, itвЂ™s fairly obvious that Jean Arthur could easily find herself falling into a haystack with Alan Ladd behind her hubby Van HeflinвЂ™s back but remains true to her marriage vows in the end. LetвЂ™s stick to the Shane comparisons instead though we will have one major discrepancy. Now itвЂ™s beginning to sound as if Nero has entered an alternate version of Mr. NeroвЂ™s about to discover that some wealthy landowner is pressuring them to sell out and to do so is driving off their hired hands. They run a plantation of sorts in some tropical location. Nero moves on and visits an old military pal and his wife played by Alex Courtney and Miss George. Rest assured, heвЂ™ll return later on after the Shane like plot develops. Kosugi becomes an instant enemy when he shows disdain for NeroвЂ™s outsider receiving the schoolвЂ™s highest honor. Being clad in an all white outfit except for a small slit to see out of makes it very handy for NeroвЂ™s stunt double to twirl some knives and engage in some hand to hand combat. Just like the good guys in western features of the 1920вЂ™s. Aside from Susan George who I love for all the right reasons.Д«efore morphing into an updated martial arts version of Shane, this Menahem Golan directed feature starts off with Nero receiving his bona fide diploma from the ninja training school after taking out his entire group of classmates dressed in red and evading Sho KosugiвЂ™s master ninja in black. This proved to be my first viewing of this Cannon Produced feature and little did I know it was going to play out as an intentionally camped up comedy.

#SUSAN GEORGE ENTER THE NINJA TV#

Though I wasnвЂ™t old enough to see this or any of the other Ninja films that were surfacing at the dawn of the 1980вЂ™s, I do recall the trailers that were being shown on TV advertising the latest martial arts craze to storm into North America whipping all us youngsters into a frenzy about black clad killing machines with pointed stars and other deadly weapons at their disposal.

Susan george enter the ninja