Mani di pietra (1986)

Country of Origin: Italy
Year of Production: 1986
Running Times: 94 mins
Format: colour     35mm
Ratio:
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Dania Film / Medusa Produzione / National
Producer: Luciano Martino

SCRIPT
Script: Elizabeth Parker Jr (real name: Elisa Briganti), Ernesto Gastaldi, Sergio Martino, Dardano Sacchetti

DIRECTION
Director: Martin Dolman (real name: Sergio Martino)

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: John McFerrand (real name: Giancarlo Ferrando)

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editors: Eugenio Alabiso, Alan Devgen

MUSIC
Music: Claudio Simonetti
Music Editing: Universo Film

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Nick Plantico, Sergio Stivaletti

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Massimo Antonello Geleng

STUNTS
Stunts: Nick Plantico

CAST
Daniel Greene (Paco Queruak)
Janet Agren (Linda)
Claudio Cassinelli (Peter Hallo)
George Eastman (Raoul Morales)
John Saxon (Francis Turner)
Amy Werba (Dr Peckinpah)
Robert Ben
Pat Monti
Andrea Coppola
Donald O'Brien (Professor Olster)
Darwyn Swalve

AVAILABILITY

Italy
Theatrical Distributors: Medusa Distribuzione

USA
Theatrical Distributors: Almi Pictures
Video Distributors: Lightning Video; Vestron Video

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Norway
Rating: 18

USA
Rating: R

TIMELINE

1986
April
17: West Germany – theatrical release

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Arms of Steel – Norwegian title
Atomic Cyborg
Fists of Steel – UK title
Hands of Steel
Manden med jernnæven - Danish title
Ohjelmoidut lihakset - Finnish title
Paco - Kampfmaschine des Todes - West German title

KEYWORDS

assassinations, cyborgs, deserts, the future, police, post apocalypse, robots

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009