There’s Always A Motorcycle: Not all films are Biker Flicks… But a hell of a lot have motorcycles in them!

THE DEVILS THREE aka MEAN BUSINESS aka PAY OR DIE (1979)

Run Time: 1:32:00
Director: Bobby A. Suarez
Writer: Dick Adair, Bobby A. Suarez, Joseph Zucchero
Key Cast: Marrie Lee, Franco Guerrero, Florence Carvajal

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‘There’s Always A Motorcycle’ is a new Vintagent series of compiled clips from moto centric cinema. The Devils Three (1979) aka Mean Business aka Pay Or Die “The martial arts adventure that’ll karate your funnybone!” An underworld kingpin’s daughter is kidnapped by his own men. So, he calls in Cleopatra Wong, a beautiful karate queen. She brings a team with her. A 300+ pound psychic and a transgender woman.

*Clips edited by Corinna Mantlo for The Vintagent

SUMMARY

“Karate Babes Will Look And Laugh While Killer Thugs Are Chopped In Half”

“Good God, this movie really is insane. Drive-in distributors tried their best to get mainstream crowds to see this under a multitude of titles like Mean Business, Devils Three, and Pay or Die, including a brief VHS release as part of Sybil Danning’s Adventure Video line, but this is so far out there it would take years of cult movie awareness and a massive fan base for stars like Weng Weng to give this any kind of understandable context. Lee is a real pleasure to watch as always; perky, pretty, and shockingly gung ho about performing her own stunts (even swinging straight through a giant ass window), she could have easily gone on to a longer action career had she chosen to stick around beyond this and the other Cleopatra Wong adventure, Dynamite Johnson. Guerrero’s performance will probably annoy some p.c. audiences today, but it’s actually still pretty transgressive to see an openly gay character beating the crap out of bigger, stronger criminals. Then there’s Carvajal, who’s so exaggerated you’d have to be a real spoilsport to be offended. It’s stupid, ridiculous, and probably not a very good film at all, but if you’re in the right frame of mind, it’s also very, very entertaining. And there’s a funky disco theme, too…” – Read more at Mondo Digital

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