Year: 1971
Duration: 01:19:18
Directed by: Guido Leoni
Actors: Herbert Fux,Ann Smyrner,Karin Schubert
Language: Italian
Country: Italy | West Germany
Also known as: Die Todesyacht,Kreuzfahrt des Grauens
Description:
Some politicians, businessmen and (as I must acknowledge, good-looking) ladies come together on a cruise-ship, after a whilst they discover a container floating in the sea. They no-cost three men from the container, a truly bad concept, as the three men are convicted murders (which are mentally insane, as the movie mentions about 20 times). Now horror guidelines the ship. Will the entrepreneurs – and their women – survive?
Whom cares in the end. The film is bad in acting (one of the worst performances of the later Austrian-Green-Party-MP Herbert Fux), camera, score, natural noise, modifying – but truly overloaded with moral problems like (a) “who would be the real gangsters – businessmen or insane murderers”, (b) the role of ladies in the society in general, or (c) “isn’t our culture decadent”.
The answers – according to “ore di terrore”: (a) both, (b) exploited by guys, but if they’re nude enough, they are simply cute, (c) yes, it is.
One major feature of this movie is the absolute absence of humor, which makes it quite difficult to view the whole 90 moments or so. I did it – and it was not worth the effort.
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Usefull informations about this extremely rare movie: released in VHS in Greece in the mid’ ’80’s, under the title I krouaziera tou tromou = Cruising of Terror. Actor in the the photos 3-6 is Greek jean premier of the ’60’s Anreas Barkoulis, as John Barkley. There is a possibility that the movie was directed from Hristos Kefalas. Actor in the 8th photo is dimos Starenios, also famous actor of the same period, and the cabin boy a mostly unknown dimitris Beretas, for the two last ones do not bother, they are not at all mentioned. Last but not least, it is very possible that this was a production from James Paris.