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Jaguar Lives (1979)

Director: Ernest Pintoff

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From Time Out Film Guide

Time-warp film-making from ex-cartoonist and once-touted director Pintoff: a no-interest, multi-location 'action movie' that takes its cues from early James Bond and cheapo kung-fu thrillers. The listless, tedious hokum of the old secret-agent-busts-international-crime-ring plot would have looked tacky (and its martial arts catchpenny) at the turn of the last decade; today it looks hopelessly anachronistic in even the baldest commercial terms. Dead from the neck up; dead from the wallet down.

Author: PT

Time Out Film Guide

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Cast & crew

Director: Ernest Pintoff

Producer: Derek Gibson

Cast: Joe Lewis, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence, Barbara Bach, Capucine, Joseph Wiseman, Woody Strode, John Huston full cast

Genre(s): Action/Adventure

Duration: 90 mins


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