Episode number five in the series or six if we count The Danish Connection and the moment the series went from enjoyable little early seventies quickie to mid-seventies real film production.
This time Johnny Wadd isn't hired as a private investigator, but to help his old army comrade who is now a narcotics officer to work on a big drug smuggling operation in Mexico. So after saying goodbye to his girlfriend it's direction Mexico for Johnny to meet Sam to learns everything he need to know about the case.
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| Annette Haven |
In this meeting we learn who are the criminals involved in the drug deal: an American, Travis Elliott and a Japanese, Frankie. At the end of their talk Johnny and Sam get out of the bar to get brutally beaten by two hidden goons and are bring to jail by two Mexican officers.
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| Bob Chinn and Tyler Reynolds |
After spending the night in jail, Wadd goes meet one of his acquaintance to take a shower and of course a bit more.
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| Joan Devlon |
After that interlude this is time to get back to work and meet the police captain. During that meeting they got a lead about the Mexican criminals supplying the drugs to Elliott and Frankie, but they must meet a local Mexican woman to get the name since she refuses to talk with the local authorities.
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| Carlos Tobalina |
They go at a local to meet the woman and learned that the involved local criminal name is Ringo Salvador but she doesn't know where he is, so Sam must meet someone else to get the information. What he'll do, but he brings attention to himself by doing so and not in a good way.
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| Damon Christian |
When Wadd finds his dead friend it's payback time for everybody...
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| Lazaro Valdez |
He brings Salvador to jail and he learns from the police captain that they caught the drug shipment at the borders. Next Wadd goes to see his partner ex-wife to talk with her and one thing lead to another... of course you know what happen next. This isn't over for Johnny since now he wants to find what American criminals were the silent partners in the deal to avenge Sam execution, but this is for the next film.
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| Veronica Taylor |
As I said in the beginning this is where the series reached the major league and Damon Christian who funded the film is the reason why, you need money to make a real film and he brought the cash to do so. The film was shoot in Mexico with a big cast and crew, so everything looks professional. No cheesy fighting here since there was two stunt coordinators on the set and we even get real shoot-out with blood and everything. Also John Holmes gets better, but I have a feeling that Christian helped him a lot. By the way Carlos Tobalina got an acting award for his role, but to be honest it was certainly paid for and in my mind this is Damon Christian who deserved an AFAA Award for this film.
Sadly the commercially available release of the film doesn't look that good as you can see, but at least it's better than the one for The Blonde in Black Lace.
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