Great history of the U.S.-Philippine movie industry in the 60s-70s
This is a truly amazing documentary. It explains how the low budget American movie industry led by people like Harvey Corman initially came to the Philippines because of its cheap costs and settings. Eventually the Filipino film industry began making its own movies that were sold in the United States.<br /><br />The partnership actually began with an American living in the Philippines working with director Eddie Romero to make war films. Those didn’t sell however so they moved into the horror genre which did much better. Eventually Roger Corman and his New World Pictures came to the islands. Corman added new twists like the female prison films and then action thrillers and sci fi. The main selling points of these movies were the bizarre with lots of women and T&A. At the same time the movies did flip some stereotypes as many featured women heroes like Pam Grier, and there was a nod to the politics of the time with lots of revolutionary themes.<br /><br />The movie highlights how the productions were based upon real collaboration with Filipino directors like Eddie Romero and Cirio Santiago in charge. Eventually Filipino movie stars came to the fore as well like Franco Guerrero and the midget Weng Weng.<br /><br />The documentary also deals with the politics of the Philippines as in the early 1970s Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law and created his dictatorship. That was ironic because while Manila was imposing strict restrictions on life in the country and upon its media, many of the U.S. movies being made there were talking about revolts and revolutions. At the same time, the government was very supportive of the U.S. companies and provided plenty of support, usually in the form of the Filipin army that provided soldiers, helicopters, etc.<br /><br />The movie is top notch. It has great interviews, lots of scenes from the film’s discussed, and tells the largely untold story of the U.S.-Philippines movie scene.
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