★ 5 / 10
A gripping, efficient but uneven thriller, played by star-studded cast.
ma-cortes
In the town of Paradise, Arizona, shady land deals enrich a handful of select few. A Native American (Paul Koslo) travels around a resort town, murdering cops…
In the town of Paradise, Arizona, shady land deals enrich a handful of select few. A Native American (Paul Koslo) travels around a resort town, murdering cops and rich people with a high-powered crossbow, while demanding that the town's richest residents pay him money to stop the killings. The psycho starts killing people in the small town and refuses to stop until he receives several million ransom. The town's mayor and sheriff are corrupt and aware of the land schemes. Incensed by this, native-American Victor plans to extort money from the rich as punishment for the land they stole. He starts by killing two local cops with his crossbow. He leaves a note claiming the rich must pay a ransom or die. He demands a lot of money to be delivered within 24 hours. The Chief of police, Haliburton (John Ireland) , contacts local businessman William Whitaker (Stuart Whitman) and they decide to keep the whole thing confidential. They don't want the Press or the Feds involved since it could reveal the local land frauds. In fact, there is a nosy reporter (Deborah Raffin) snooping here and there. Instead, they hire private security investigator Nick McCormick (Oliver Reed). The latter hires a tracker (James Mitchum) who he takes out of prison to follow the tracks of the relentless killer. The maniac kills anywhere... anytime! Their agony was his ecstasy!.They called it paradise - but it was Hell on Earth!.In Paradise, Arizona, money doesn't talk... it screams. Killing is his passion, money is his motive !.Moving film with silly and non-sense in the extreme script, really violent at times, but with lack of originality, campy dialogue , a lot of plentiful action scenes, including wild car chases , pursuits, thrills and violence. This is a medium-budget American movie concerning a young Indian exacts a strong vendetta. A Western-style film set in Arizona, although a bit more contemporary than the old west. Starring Whitman as the richest man in the town, Oliver Reed as the mercenary hired to kill the extorsionist played by Paul Koslo. The latter is a native Indian who turns into one army man , spending several minutes destroying property , shooting by means a crossbow to police officers and other contenders. As revenge is the top priority , as the protagonist tormenting and reckoning the bad guys along the way. The picture deals with usual theme in the cinema of the 60s and 70s : a merciless vendetta. There are some slow moments, but worse than these are the unanswered questions about why the murderer dresses like an American Indian and what this motive really is. The main and support cast is made up of known actors giving functional interpretations, such as: Oliver Reed, Deborah Raffin, James Mitchum, Stuart Whitman, John Ireland and Paul Koslo.The motion picture was mediocrely directed by Richard Compton. Richard had a long film career. His debut feature "The French Way", was never released in America. Compton followed this film with the nifty biker flick Angels Die Hard (1970), which was the first movie to be released by Roger Corman's New World Pictures. Compton then did the excellent and unjustly overlooked psycho Vietnam veterans exploitation winner Welcome Home Soldier Boys (1971). He scored his biggest hit with the outstanding cult classic Macon County Line (1974); the unexpected enormous box-office success of this movie begot a handful of similar Southern-fried "don't go down to Dixie" drive-in pictures, which include Jackson County Jail (1976), A Small Town in Texas (1976), and Nightmare in Badham County (1976). He followed directing the tepid semi-sequel Return to Macon County (1975) and a post-nuke sci-fi picture, Ravagers (1979). In the early 1980s Compton began directing more and more for television; he's done several made-for-TV pictures and numerous episodes of famous TV series. ¨The Ransom¨ rating: 5/10. Average but passable and acceptable at times.
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★ 6 / 10
Understanding "Assault on Paradise" is like trying to burn snow.........Impossible.
merklekranz
Paul Koslo appears to be a crossbow killing phantom, since he often shows up out of nowhere, with no obvious means of getting there other than wings. His…
Paul Koslo appears to be a crossbow killing phantom, since he often shows up out of nowhere, with no obvious means of getting there other than wings. His meaningless rants about the wind, only deepens a total mystery regarding his motivation for extorting the rich. Either an awful lot of this film wound up on the cutting room floor, or this is one of the most underdeveloped scripts ever. Stuart Whitman and Oliver Reed are charged with ending Koslo's mayhem, but to no avail as they seem to be constantly chasing smoke that simply disappears. Throw in the fastest seduction on film between Reed and Deborah Raffin, car chases for the sake of car chases, and you pretty much get the idea. The movie is watchable, because the desert scenery magnificent, but believability is nowhere to be found. MERK
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Pokis 1 you are a rude prick. and stupid. If you look at the bottom of this page you will see Requests - use that instead of whining and bitching. The great wall is here if you looked and these old movies are probably better than the rubbish we are mostly dished up now that is designed for morons like you. This comments section is not for requesting movies, show some gratitude and class if its possible for you and stop moaninhg