My review was written in June 1990 after watching the film on Media Home Entertainment video cassette.
This better-than-average Italian actioner has a social message: save the rainforests. A personable debut as leading actor by boxing champ Marvin Hagler helps pull this video release ahead of the pack.
Though Hagler understandably gets top billing, Anthony Quinn's son Francesco actually is the lead player, cast as a half-breed U. S. Marine who visits his home village on the Amazon to witness a massacre. Brian Denney is supervising a construction project there and takes drastic measures when the natives protest.
Unable to get the authorities to take action, Quinn goes native and starts a one-man war against the Yankee despoilers. Dennehy cleverly calls in Hagler, who was Quinn's original instructor, to kill Quinn. Nice plot twist has Hagfler recovering his scruples and siding with the youngster against the evil powers.
Buttressed by excellent explosions and action footage, "Indio" manages to integrate an important ecological message by film's end. Location filming in the Philippines, Borneo, Argentina and Brazil is convincing.
Quinn carries the picture, with Hagler a good foil. Dennehy is cast undoubtedly because of his similar adversarial status in "First Blood" and is competent without trying.
This better-than-average Italian actioner has a social message: save the rainforests. A personable debut as leading actor by boxing champ Marvin Hagler helps pull this video release ahead of the pack.
Though Hagler understandably gets top billing, Anthony Quinn's son Francesco actually is the lead player, cast as a half-breed U. S. Marine who visits his home village on the Amazon to witness a massacre. Brian Denney is supervising a construction project there and takes drastic measures when the natives protest.
Unable to get the authorities to take action, Quinn goes native and starts a one-man war against the Yankee despoilers. Dennehy cleverly calls in Hagler, who was Quinn's original instructor, to kill Quinn. Nice plot twist has Hagfler recovering his scruples and siding with the youngster against the evil powers.
Buttressed by excellent explosions and action footage, "Indio" manages to integrate an important ecological message by film's end. Location filming in the Philippines, Borneo, Argentina and Brazil is convincing.
Quinn carries the picture, with Hagler a good foil. Dennehy is cast undoubtedly because of his similar adversarial status in "First Blood" and is competent without trying.