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If Executioner Part II deserves its own page, I have placed a synopsis here.

Well, I finally found a copy of the Executioner Part II, an obviously derivative film of the Exeterminator. An acquaintance of mine found this film quite unintentionally amusing, and I can discern why. The sound is wanting, the stock music to many laughable, and to many viewers it is so 80's ish that it serves as a time capsule. Aside from that, note that the closing credits were shown so smeary and indistinct that even the IMDB has yet to try to decipher them. The film has Christopher Mitchum and Aldo Ray in it.

The first thing to remember is that there was no Executioner Part I. For that matter, this has no relationship to any Don Pendleton series or to the Penetrator. The film opens in 1970 in Vietnam where we see Sergeant Roger O'Malley saved by his friend Mike during a combat scene. Abruptly moving forward to the present, we see O'Malley as now a policeman in Los Angeles (it would seem-the film was made in California) investigating the fifth unsolved homicide in two weeks to be attributed to the vigilante the Executioner. Curiously, we can see Mike hanging around the scene of the crime. Later, a gang attacks a woman on a roof. The Executioner, clad in a long ski mask and army uniform, scares off the gang, but sticks a grenade underneath the mask of one of them. We discover that the Executioner's weapons include grenades, broken glass, and guns.

Later we see Mike at his car garage as gangster Antonio Cassalas (the Tatoo Man) visits. Mike pays protection money to Cassalas, who refuses to pay a bill to Mike's garage. Later Roger visits. We find out that Roger has an about 18 year old daughter named Laura, who was in the second grade when he returned from Vietnam. Apparently, his spouse, who seems to be named Ann, died. Laura, meanwhile, has become a narcotics addict, dealing with the pusher Peter Vance, who works for Cassalas. Vance and Cassalas are fascinated that Larua is a virgin. Later, Cassalas meets with Eastbrook, an aid to the man running for mayor; this candidate is in Cassalas' pocket. Eastbrook asks Cassalas to curtail his activities due to the upcoming election. Police Commissioner Fred Hudnall (played by Aldo Ray) then arrives.

Meanwhile, the Executioner goes on another mission, killing a man by putting a grenade in his pants. Elsewhere, Laura and her fellow addict friend Kitty talk about cocaine. Laura mentions that she needs the funds to get cocaine for herself and Ben, her lover-though they have not consumated their relationship. Kitty then says "Enter the freakshow, get a look at the last American virgin". Kitty informs Laura how she has gotten the funds for her narcotics by working as a prostitute for Pete Vance.

Later, Mike, Roger, and Celia Amherst, a reporter for KBG-TV covering the Executioner story as well as editorializing against the growth in crime in the area, meet for dinner. Roger and Mike recall the Bijou theatre in the neighborhood they grew up in. Later, apparently under the stress of a Vietnam flashback (he has serveral during the film) Mike attacks a group of criminals, including Dan, an enforcer for Cassalas who earlier had roughed up Mike. He kills one of the criminals with a broken glass. Laura, initiated into prostitution, discovers that Cassalas enjoys torturing women with cigarettes and razors.

Roger, apparently suspicious of Mike, visits him at the garage and lifts some fingerprints from a Tequila bottle. He has them compared to the glass used to kill an Executioner victim. Cassalas, having concluded that the publicility Celia Amherst has created for the Executione was bad for his activities (scaring off prostitutes, pushers, and addicts), orders her kidnapped. Roger asks a prostitute named Diana about Cassalas, and then Vance abducts Laura for a special night with Cassalas. Kitty sees this and calls the police, but since she cannot give her name to the police, she then calls Celia Amherst. Celia gets the message and calls Mike (apparently guessing that Roger would be with him-the film is not clear on this). Roger earlier confronted Mike about his being the Executioner and gives him three hours to leave. Mike gets the message from Celia and sets out to save Celia and Laura.

Making his way to the enemy's base, Mike saves Laura from Cassalas. Celia has been fondled by one of Cassalas' men, but she manages to grab a Japanese style sword (katana?) from the wall and stab him through the chest, transfixing him through a mattress standing against the wall (the underling mentions that the place was soundproofed-presumably the mattress against the wall was part of this). The underling manages to drag the mattress with him and attempts to grasp Celia, but Mike arrives. Laura, Mike, and Celia flees as dynamite that Mike primed goes off.

In the denouement, Roger and Mike meet at a threatre (perhaps the Bijou). Roger allows Mike to flee. The public gets allowed to believe that the Executioner simply fled to another town.

Amusingly, at one point, a radio announcer refers to the Executioner as perhaps a "modern day Superman". Since Superman's adventures have long been set in contemporary times, this is odd. Of course, the Exterminator (Robert Ginty) seems to serve as a template for this film.

Anyone have a better lookingy copy of this film? I cannot make out the cast.

Does anyone know if the makers of the Exterminator ever heard of this film?

http://www.critcononline.com/executioner%20part%202.htm

Laura played by Bianca Phillipi Tony the Tiger played by Frisco Estes Ricco Mancini Kitty by Marisi Courtwright Bell as Dancer Karen Luce as Diana Frank Albert as Pete Vance Cheryl Harmon Abiline Specht Jerry Battay

Per video finally able to decipher