Bloodfist III - Forced to Fight

Concorde. Director Oley Sassone; Producer Roger Corman; Screenplay Allison Burnett, Charles Mattera; Camera Rick Bota; Editor Eric L. Beason; Music Nigel Holton; Art Director James Shumaker

Don Wilson
Richard Roundtree
Gregory McKinney
Rick Dean
Richard Paul
John Cardone

This prison story is the best screen vehicle to date for kick-boxing champ Don Wilson. He's a wrongly convicted guy in the state pen who continually has to prove himself against bigger and feistier convicts.

Under director Oley Sassone (a.k.a. Francis Sassone), who previously co-scripted the radically dissimilar Disney family film Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, film is tightly constructed. Wilson befriends John Cardone, a nerdy prisoner shunned by the other inmates and is in turn taken under the wing of prison sage Richard Roundtree.

Racism is the key theme, as white and black cons are continually fighting, with 'half-breed' (half-Japanese) Wilson caught in the middle. Per genre tradition, when the baddies attack Wilson's best friends, star whips into action and cleans up the place. In a characterstic role, Roundtree is extremely sympathetic.

(Color) Available on VHS. Extract of a review from 1992. Running time: 88 MIN.

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