Treasure of the Four Crowns
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| Directed by | Ferdinando Baldi |
| Produced by |
Tony Anthony Gene Quintano |
| Written by | Lloyd Battista Jim Bryce Jerry Lazarus |
| Story by |
Tony Pettito Gene Quintano |
| Starring | Tony Anthony Ana Obregón Gene Quintano Jerry Lazarus Francisco Rabal |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography | Marcello Masciocchi Giuseppe Ruzzolini |
| Edited by | Franco Fraticelli |
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The Lupo-Anthony-Quintano Company
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| Distributed by | Cannon Film Distributors |
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Running time
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97 minutes |
| Country | United States Italy Spain |
| Language | English |
Treasure of the Four Crowns is a 1983 action adventure film directed by Ferdinando Baldi and starring Tony Anthony, Ana Obregón, Gene Quintano, and Francisco Rabal.
It was produced as a co-production between American company Filmways and Lupo-Anthony-Quintano Productions, an independent company, the same filmmakers had made Comin' at Ya! in 1981.
Treasure of the Four Crowns was released on January 21, 1983 in the U.S. by Cannon Films, Inc., and was somewhat criticized for its similarities to Raiders of the Lost Ark, most particularly the scene in which the main character runs away from a flaming boulder.
The movie follows J.T. Striker, a Soldier of Fortune (Tony Anthony), who has been hired to assemble a group of professional thieves to retrieve the gems which are hidden inside two of the remaining four Mystical Crowns. Striker braves a mysterious magical cave in which skeletons and spears appear and jump out at him. He discovers a scroll in one of the crowns in the cave, which tells him that the fourth crown had disappeared long ago. He denies that the gems are magical or even valuable. He succumbs to the belief eventually and sets off to find the last two crowns, which are being held inside a heavily guarded compound that is the home of a cult led by the evil Brother Jonas. Striker's team suffers casualties from booby traps as it performs a dangerous acrobatic commando raid on the room where the crowns are kept. Striker retrieves the gems from the two magical crowns, and the magic makes his head literally spin. His face becomes half deformed, like that of Two-Face. Striker shoots fire from his fingers, melting the henchmen, their weapons, and Jonas. After, the film cuts to a shot of a boggy swamp, where a large pile of slimy brown sludge rises from the swampy water. A head like that of a moray eel with crystal blue eyes shoots towards the screen for a 3-D effect, setting up for a sequel that never happened.
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