Death Stone Explained

Death Stone
Director:Franz Josef Gottlieb
Cinematography:Klaus Werner
Music:Luigi Ceccarelli
Distributor:Ring-Film-Verleih
Runtime:93 minutes (Germany)
Language:German

Death Stone (de|'''Der Stein des Todes''') is a 1987 German-Sri-Lankan action film directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb and starring, Heather Thomas, Elke Sommer, and Brad Harris.[1] It was also released as Perahera and Jungle Fire.

Plot

While in Sri Lanka attending the Esala Perahera festival, a man's girlfriend goes missing and is later found dead of a drug overdose. He then sets about going after the criminals who killed her.[2]

Home media

In 2011 this film was released on DVD. The disc contains a German version of this film and as addition an interview with Brad Harris in English. Brad Harris talks about this film as well as about his film career in general.

Background

Brad Harris also states in the aforementioned interview he had written parts of the screenplay and was responsible for the choreography of all fights. Among other things he also mentions the Italian actors had brought provisions from Italy with them and had advised the cooks in their hotels to fix them meals à la Italian cuisine.

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Bock & Bergfelder p. 63
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20090207031506/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/242578 BFI.org