The Hunters of the Golden Cobra (1982)
T..The Hunters of the Golden Cobra (Italian: I Cacciatori del Cobra d’Oro) is an Italian action film directed by Antonio Margheriti. Starring David Warbeck. It is one of several Italian imitations of Raiders of the Lost Ark
Plot
An American soldier and a British intelligence agent try to track down an ancient relic called the Golden Cobra
David Warbeck (The Beyond) 
and John Steiner (Tenebrae, Caligula) play special elite soldiers that get separated on their mission to eliminate a mad Japanese army commander near the end of WWII. 
One year later, they’re both assigned to recover the incredibly valuable treasure that got lost in the jungle. They team up with a beautiful girl played by good-looking Suska (from Lucio Fulci’s The New York Ripper),
who searches her missing twin-sister and face numerous lethal obstacles on their mission.
It has plane crashes, car chases, truck explosions, wild shootouts, fistfights, spiders, eerie snake pits, cockfighting, buddy-relations, romance, dark jungles, violent aboriginal tribes, black magic, spells, poisonous darts, volcano eruptions, death traps, dry British humor, double-crossing and the unstoppable hunt for an almighty treasure!
Notable scenes
The non stop action scenes.
Making of The Hunters of the Golden Cobra
Antonio Margheriti was the king of rip-offs. There wasn’t a single popular trend in cinema he didn’t cash in on
The Italian producers were attempting to turn Warbeck into an action hero in the Rambo or Indiana Jones mould despite some very successful attempts,sadly Warbeck never received the acclaim that he fully deserved and spent the rest of his life doing Italian B-movies.
Warbeck especially excels himself as the laid back, drunken hero who manages to be friendly and likable while also being gruff and snappy.
Physically, he also looks the part of an action hero and is one of the best things in the film. John Steiner, on the other hand, has great fun with his role of the clichéd Briton, and as I mentioned his accent and dialogue are hilarious.
Luciano Pigozzi plays the role of a mild-mannered Professor turned traitor, who really wants the statue for his own possession and will murder to retrieve it.
The special effects are all achieved on a low budget, so a lot of them look pretty rough, as you would expect. Especially a bus/truck crash in a jungle clearing in which both vehicles quite clearly brake hard before they supposedly hit each other and explode! One thing that is impressive, though, is the volcano explosion at the end, which throws in lots of stock footage and mixes it in well with footage of the actors.
It is part of four movies made by David Warbeck and Antonio Margheriti in the early ’80s (the others are Ark of the Sun God, Tiger Joe and The Last Hunter).
! If you’re looking for a cheesy sea-creature film in the likes of “Jaws” or “Piranha”, check out Margheriti’s “Killer Fish”. In case you want a nastier version of the De Niro classic “The Deer Hunter”, look for Margheriti’s “The Last Hunter”.
Contains some impressive scale models of planes and stuff, a strong point from from Margheriti.
Our view on The Hunters of the Golden Cobra
The Hunters of the Golden Cobra mixes war-movie clichés in with Raiders of the Ark jungle action and achil
There are volcano explosions at the end and evil natives, complete with blowpipes. The movie captures the rare Italian style very well. Exploitflix must see!
Trailer
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