TITLE
STRIKER
(1985) ACTION

DIRECTED BY :
CAST : FRANK ZAGARINO

SYNOPSYS : John "STRIKER" Slade is a Vietnam veteran ("vet") who has had a hard time reintegrating with society, and is reduced to working in a launderette in Miami. A group of Miami businessmen blackmail "STRIKER" into going to Nicaragua to bring out Morris, one of his wartime buddies, who is now a freelance journalist and is being held by the Sandinists. Marta, a stunningly beautiful Creole girl, contacts "STRIKER" as soon as he arrives in Managua, telling him that she and an Austrian helicopter pilot will take him as near as possible to the prison in which Morris is being held. Meanwhile, Kariazin, the Russian Head of Sandinist Counter Intelligence and Santiago, a ruthless Nicaraguan collaborating with him, have also been informed of STRIKER'S arrival and they launch a complex military operation to capture him before he can spring Morris. "STRIKER" constantly outwits the Sandinists with sheer animal cunning and succeeds in liberating his buddy. It is then that he tells "STRIKER" that the Miami group trafficks in arms and drugs with both the Sandinists and Contras, using their regular business activity as a front, and he has the proof that will blow their operation wide open, They know this, and they have sent "STRIKER" to spring him in order to eliminate him, The Miami group has given Marta the job of killing Morris, threatening to harm members of her family if she refuses, but she fails to do it, and the helicopter pilot, also in the pay of the Miami group, eliminates him. Morris' death unleashes a fury in "STRIKER", unknown since Vietnam, and he swears to avenge him. Alone, in enemy country, he cold-bloodedly hunts down and eliminates Kariazan, Santiago and the pilot; then he returns to Miami and eliminates the members of the group, Next time we meet "STRIKER", he is at a gas station on a highway, asking a truck driver for a ride. He is going to visit with Morris' family, "STRIKER" was shot entirely on location in Miami and Central