''Hell Hunters'' is a 1988

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produced and directed by , and starring

Maud Adams Maud Adams (born Maud Solveig Christina Wikström; 12 February 1945) is a Swedish actress and model, known for her roles as two different Bond girls, first in '' The Man with the Golden Gun'' (1974) and then as the eponymous character in ''Oct ...

George Lazenby George Robert Lazenby (; born 5 September 1939) is an Australian actor. He was the second actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, playing the character in '' On Her Majesty's Secret Service ...

and

Stewart Granger Stewart Granger (born James Lablache Stewart; 6 May 1913 – 16 August 1993) was a British film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. He was a popular leading man from the 1940s to the early 1960s, rising to fame thr ...

Plot

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

war criminal

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creates a spider serum which turns people into

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. A team of investigators that have devoted their lives hunting Nazi war criminals endeavor to stop him..

Cast

as ''Amanda'' *

as ''Martin Hoffmann'' *

Candice Daly Candice Mia Daly (January 4, 1966 – December 14, 2004) was an American film and television actress. In the late 1980s and early 1990s she starred in a number of B-movies and cult films such as ''After Death'' (1988) and '' Liquid Dreams'' ...

as ''Ally'' *

Rômulo Arantes Rômulo Duncan Arantes Filho (usually Rômulo Arantes; June 12, 1957 – June 10, 2000) was a Brazilian swimmer and actor. He won a bronze medal in the 100-metre backstroke at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships and four medals at the Universia ...

as ''Tonio'' *

Russ McCubbin Julian Russell McCubbin (January 16, 1935 – June 28, 2018) was an American television and film actor and stunt man. He is best known for his work on ''Sudden Impact'' (1983) and ''High Plains Drifter'' (1973). Early life As a teenager, he exc ...

as ''Kong'' *

as ''Heinrich'' *

Eduardo Conde Eduardo Conde (April 9, 1948 – January 16, 2003) was a Brazilian singer and actor. He portrayed Jesus Christ Superstar in Brazil in the 1970s, and a journalist in the movie ''The Emerald Forest ''The Emerald Forest'' is a 1985 British a ...

as ''El Pasado'' * William Berger as ''Karl'' *

Herb Andress Herb Andress (January 10, 1935, in Bad Goisern – April 8, 2004, in Munich), born Herbert Andreas Greunz, was an Austrian film and television actor, known particularly for his roles in the Rainer Werner Fassbinder film ''Lili Marleen'' (1981) and ...

as ''Johann''

Release

Home media

It was announced on June 1, 2016 that Film Chest would be releasing the film for the first time on

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later that year. The DVD included a fully restored HD version of the film taken from its original 35mm print. Film Chest released the film on DVD on July 5, 2016.

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