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1080 BruxellesCriterion Collection Special EditionA singular work in film history

With nods to giallo films

full-bloom Obayashi style

an archival featurette exploring the psychological reality behind the story of the film

China Gate USED Metz's Favorites 1080 BruxellesCriterion Collection Special EditionASamuel Fuller (THE BIG RED ONE) wrote, produced and directed this raw boned action packed war film. Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border, to blow up an arms depot. A Eurasian smuggler, Lucky Legs (Angie Dickinson), agrees to use her connections to help them, in return they agree to take her illegitimate son to America. The racist father of the