''Mankillers'', also known as ''12 Wild Women'', is a 1987

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written and directed by David A. Prior. Filmed in 1986 in and around

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, it was shot back to back with ''

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'' as part of the newly formed

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. The alternate title notwithstanding, ''Mankillers'' actually features fifteen women as members of the titular commando unit, not twelve.

Plot

A female CIA agent is assigned to train and lead an all-female combat squad to Colombia to stop a renegade agent who has hired himself out to a drug cartel and white slaver. Unfortunately, the agent's recruits consists of prison convicts - murderesses,

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, bank robbers, etc. These women are guaranteed clean slates on their records if the mission is successfully pulled off. Their past "experience" from their criminal endeavors offers them some insight and skill, but most of their mission-specific training will require them to learn team effort, self-sacrifice, and the ability to follow orders and achieve mission objectives.

Cast

* Edd Byrnes as Jack Marra *

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as Joan Hanson * Edy Williams as Sgt. Roberts *Lynda Aldon as Rachael McKenna *William Zipp as John Mickland *Christine Lunde as Maria Rosetti *Suzanne Tegmann as Terry Davis *Marilyn Stafford as Roxanne Taylor *Paul Bruno as Bruno *Bryan Clark as Williams *Thyais Walsh as Vicki Thompson *Bainbridge Scott as Christine Rollins *Cyndi Domino as Trish Daniels *Amber Star as K.C. Grimes *John Taylor as Mannetti *Sheila Best as Margaret Skinner *Naomi Delgado as Vannesa Shaw *Arlene Julian as Lisa Leonardo *Veronica Carothers as Shannon Smith

Release

''Mankillers'' was released on DVD and

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on September 13, 2016.

References

External links

* * 1987 action films Action International Pictures films 1987 films Films shot in California American action films Films scored by Mark Mancina Films directed by David A. Prior 1980s English-language films 1980s American films English-language action films {{1980s-action-film-stub