''The Woman Hunt'' is a 1972 film directed by

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and starring John Ashley, Pat Woodell, and Sid Haig. It was the last of several films Romero made for

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and is an unofficial remake of

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's 1924 short story "

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Plot

Mercenaries Tony ( John Ashley), Silas ( Sid Haig) and Karp (Ken Metcalfe) kidnap women and take them to an island, where a wealthy man named Spyros (

Eddie Garcia Eduardo Verchez Garcia (; May 2, 1929 – June 20, 2019), known colloquially as Manoy, was a Filipino actor, television personality, film director and producer. With almost 600 film and television roles and a career spanning seven decades, he ...

) assembles a group to hunt the women. Tony begins to question what he is doing, and helps McGee ( Pat Woodell), Billie (Charlene Jones) and Lori (Laurie Rose) escape. Karp and Silas have a falling out, and Karp kills Silas. Spyros' head of security, Magda (Lisa Todd), goes after the escapees but is killed in a trap. Billie and Lori are killed during the hunt. Tony and McGee escape to what they think is safety, and go for a romantic swim. Spyros is about to shoot them, but haunted by memories of Magda, kills himself instead.

Cast

* John Ashley as Tony * Pat Woodell as McGee * Sid Haig as Silas * Charlene Jones as Billie * Lisa Todd as Magda * Ken Metcalfe as Karp *

as Spyros

Production

Corman approached Ashley to make the film after the success of ''

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'' (1971), which had been shot in the Philippines. That film's director, Jack Hill, wrote the first draft of the script. Ashley later said that Corman paid for the above-the-line costs while he paid for the below-the-line costs. Ashley said that the film was originally called ''Women for Sale''. Its budget was estimated as . Filming on ''The Woman Hunt'' overlapped with Ashley's '' Beyond Atlantis''.

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