The one time when ANDREW LEAVOLD introduced the wild Filipino zombie kung-fu flick RAW FORCE ... with DON GORDON BELL!!!

I've always thought this intro was cool, but hardly anybody on YouTube has seen it!

Andrew Leavold introducing the HIGHLY entertaining and WILD zombie kung-fu film RAW FORCE with Don Gordon Bell.

Needless to say, it's cool not least since Don Gordon Bell was in RAW FORCE (and many other truly psychotronic Filipino flicks as well). 

The intro video was made for a screening in Switzerland (the two of them were not in Switzerland but in Manila). The YouTube description dates the video to 29. January 2019. 

Sadly, Don Gordon Bell passed away a few years ago. He was a Korean-American who lived much of his life in the Philippines. I had a wee bit of facebook contact with him but never got to meet him.

Andrew has written a bit of info about him and posted quite a few fotos over on his blog Name That Filipino Actor! RIP, Don. 

From Andrew Leavold's blog Name That Filipino Actor!

BATMAN FIGHTS DRACULA (1967)

 Here's a superhero film I'd love to see (in contradiction to the barrage of super expensive Marvel films!): BATMAN FIGHTS DRACULA (Leody M. Diaz, 1967) in which Batman and wonderboy Ruben (!) fight the evil Doctor Zorba. Zorba resurrects Dracula from his grave in order to control him (!) and thus fight ol'e Batz.

The film is (needless to say) from them fun loving people in the third world where film stock is cheap and life even cheaper: The Philippines! (and if you'd be wondering if I'm paraphrasing Damon Foster from old issues of "Oriental Cinema" here you'd be right. rotfl).

Unfortunately, as with so many other Filipino flicks, this one is lost (according to Wiki).

But at least we have this old ad-mat and a plot description (also from Wiki):

"The story concerned the mad scientist named Dr. Zorba who, after repeatedly being defeated by Batman, finds a way to resurrect the wicked Count Dracula, control him, and even make him stronger, rendering him invincible towards traditional ways of killing him, such as Christian crosses.

Dracula sneaks into the Batcave and attacks Batman. Batman attempts to use holy water and a cross to injure the vampire, but due to Zorba's machinations, they have no effect. Dracula throws Batman against a wall and then flees, leaving Batman knocked out. When the unconscious Batman is found by his butler, Turko (a character based on Alfred Pennyworth), he tends to the crime fighter's wounds and then calls for Batman's girlfriend and sidekick to aid in tracking down his attacker.

After tracking down Zorba at his underground fortress, Ruben (a character based on the existing sidekick Robin) and the beautiful Marita manage to kill the evil doctor by turning the vampire against him.[1] The vampire then is investigated by a recovering Batman within a cage in the Batcave, and the film ends with Batman lecturing Dracula about justice."

The Films of CIRIO H. SANTIAGO - by FRED ADELMAN (from "Critical Condition")

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