John Gale, born Jun Gallardo, was a Filipino B-movie director, who
started his career with martial arts movies in the 1970s and continued
to Z-movie actioners in the 1980s, often produced by K.Y. Lim's Silver
Star Film Company. Silver Star was a notorious but prolific producer
of extremely low-budget action films, characterized by very low
production values.Gale directed Richard Harrison in Intrusion Cambodia
AKA Rescue Team (1981), also starring a cast of Silver Star workhorses
such as Romano Kristoff, James Gaines, Mike Monty, Mike Cohen, and
Ronnie Patterson. The assistant director of Intrusion Cambodia was
Teddy Page, another prolific Silver Star director. Gale directed
Kristoff and Monty again in Slash (1984), a film influenced by the
Rambo series starring Sylvester Stallone, to the point of plagiarism.
Slash also featured Nick Nicholson and Gwendolyn Hung. Another film of
debatable note was Commando Invasion (1986), which featured Gordon
Mitchell, Ken Watanabe (not to be confused with the more famous Ken
Watanabe) and former model Tetchie Agbayani (as Carol Roberts, also in
Intrusion Cambodia).Gale also directed Christopher Mitchum thrice, in
Master Samurai (1974), Commander Firefox (1983) and SFX Retaliator
(1987).He seems to be now retired from film.
started his career with martial arts movies in the 1970s and continued
to Z-movie actioners in the 1980s, often produced by K.Y. Lim's Silver
Star Film Company. Silver Star was a notorious but prolific producer
of extremely low-budget action films, characterized by very low
production values.Gale directed Richard Harrison in Intrusion Cambodia
AKA Rescue Team (1981), also starring a cast of Silver Star workhorses
such as Romano Kristoff, James Gaines, Mike Monty, Mike Cohen, and
Ronnie Patterson. The assistant director of Intrusion Cambodia was
Teddy Page, another prolific Silver Star director. Gale directed
Kristoff and Monty again in Slash (1984), a film influenced by the
Rambo series starring Sylvester Stallone, to the point of plagiarism.
Slash also featured Nick Nicholson and Gwendolyn Hung. Another film of
debatable note was Commando Invasion (1986), which featured Gordon
Mitchell, Ken Watanabe (not to be confused with the more famous Ken
Watanabe) and former model Tetchie Agbayani (as Carol Roberts, also in
Intrusion Cambodia).Gale also directed Christopher Mitchum thrice, in
Master Samurai (1974), Commander Firefox (1983) and SFX Retaliator
(1987).He seems to be now retired from film.
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