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The film is based on true events. In 1978, approximately 3,000 heavily armed fighters from Katanga crossed the border to the Zaire and marched into Kolwezi, a mining centre for copper and cobalt. They took 3,000 civilians as hostages. Within a few days, between 90 and 280 hostages were killed.
The film was known for an extended car chase with an Opel Commodore GS/E I6 involving the Bronson character's attempt to get a doctor to a wounded drug dealer in exchange for his wife.
[10] [11] [12] George Harris plays Simon Katanga, captain of the Bantu Wind tramp steamer, [13] and Fred Sorenson portrays Jones' pilot Jock. [14] Producer Frank Marshall appears as the Flying Wing pilot. [10] Pat Roach appears as the Nazi who brawls with Jones by the Flying Wing and one of Toht's Nepalese Sherpas. [15]
Bloodsport (1988) – martial arts sport action film centring on Frank Dux, a United States Army Captain and ninjutsu practitioner, who competes in an underground full-contact martial arts tournament called the Kumite in Hong Kong [487] Bloody Wednesday (1988) – crime thriller film based on the events of the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre [488]
Simon [36] Katanga (George Harris), is a friend of Sallah and the captain of the Bantu Wind, a tramp steamer Indiana and Marion use to transport the Ark. When his ship is boarded by the Nazis, he conceals the pair, claiming to the Nazis that he killed Indiana and intends to sell Marion to slavery.
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This movie—Rod Taylor vs. the Mau Maus—was the most violent I'd seen up to that time. There's a scene where Taylor fights an ex-Nazi with chain saws. In another scene, a train full of refugees has finally escaped the Mau Maus in the valley below—and just as it's about to reach the top of a hill, the power fails, the train goes all the way ...
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