VIDEO ARCHIVES NOTES: This movie was discussed on the Patreon for the Video Archives podcast. You can hear a preview here.

Frank Harris has been featured plenty on this site — Killpoint has been written about once before, as well as Low Blow, The Patriot and Aftershock — and he’s movie’s director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. Harris was once a news reporter who personally witnessed street violence and also worked on police training films, so he hired real cops and gang members to make this.

What it has going for it is Cameron Mitchell as big bad Joe Marks and Stack Pierce as his henchman Nighthawk. They’re stealing military weapons and selling them to gangs and this leads to a gangbanger having a weapon of mass destruction in his hands that kills the wife of Lt. James Wong (Leo Fong).

And oh yeah, this is 1984, so she was also sexually assaulted before she was killed.

Teaming up with FBI Agent Bill Bryant (Richard Roundtree), they start to track down where the guns are coming from. Meanwhile, Cameron Mitchell is killing hookers, shooting up TV sets, smoking in bed and lavishing attention on his dog Sparky, even trying to teach him how to smoke just like dad. Later, he puts flowers in his hair and soaks in a hot tub, along with grabbing a machine gun and shooting every teenager inside a Chinese restaurant.

Leo Fong has facial paralysis of a sort and a charisma void inside him, as he just stares into you as his dead eyes find the red light on the camera and he listlessly does martial arts montages that have nothing to do with the rest of the movie. He also would come back to play the same role in Showdown, a movie that he didn’t just star in, he directed. He also squares off with Richard Lynch, so you know I’m looking for this movie now, which is not the other Showdown from 1993 which has Billy Blanks in it.

But seriously: Cameron Mitchell should be worshipped for this movie.

Bill “Superfoot” Wallace is in it and the Chuck Norris school gets thanked. What else do you want?

You can watch this on YouTube.