Glasgow Film Festival Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Sat 28 February 2015
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Mark Hartley follows his affectionate salutes to Ozploitation and Filipino B-movies by celebrating the eclectic legacy of the late Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus. This dynamic duo purchased the Cannon Group in 1979 and stormed the Hollywood barricades by funding action fodder from Charles Bronson, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris as well as backing John Cassavetes, Franco Zeffirelli and Barbet Schroeder. Electric Boogaloo covers the triumphs and disasters, fads and failures, cheesy B-movies and tacky press stunts. It’s a wickedly entertaining guilty pleasure.
