Guns! Yes! Shotguns! Machineguns! Pistols! Oh, grenades, too! Sybil Danning with guns...as she plays a grouchy and vicious bounty hunter. Put her in a leather jacket, some nice fitting jeans, cowboy boots, and we're all set. Oh! Did I mention Wings Hauser as the psycho she seeks? This is a good one. Sybil Danning will mow down so many bad guys. Today we look at 1989's "L.A. Bounty," directed by Worth Keeter.
Ruger (Danning) used to be a sultry LAPD policewoman. Then her partner was brutally tortured and murdered by Cavanaugh (Hauser). Cavanaugh was released on a technicality and Ruger left the force and became a bounty hunter. A few years later, Cavanaugh comes back to L.A.. He is a big time arms and drugs trafficker now. His latest scheme has him kidnap a mayoral candidate (Robert Hanley) and hold him for ransom. Uh oh...the candidate has a hot wife, Kelly (Lenore Kasdorf), who Cavanaugh wants dead. Seems she saw the face of some of the kidnappers. They would have murdered her as they chased her around the house in her lingerie but Ruger showed up and shot gunned some of the gang. Now Cavanaugh wants to kidnap Kelly and torture her to death, too.
Ruger wants Cavanaugh. She wants to murder him. Cavanaugh is a psycho and will murder so many in this one, including an entire SWAT team. Ruger will murder so many of Cavanaugh's men, most with the aforementioned firearms. Now Ruger is protecting Kelly...but Cavanaugh is smart. Creep by creep, Ruger murders Cavanaugh's men and associates on her way to the psycho. You can probably guess there will be a final showdown as the two well-armed killers will square off with the life of the sultry Kelly in the balance. The ending will be so beautiful.
Will the lingerie clad wife ever get a clue and find a weapon and do something for herself, for once? Will Ruger get her revenge on the psycho arms and drugs dealer or will he capture her? Will there be any bazookas, rocket launchers, or tanks in this one, or is Sybil Danning too tough for those tools of war? Sybil Danning is one of those stars who we want to see. If her name is in the credits, the movie is a must see. Give yourself a treat tonight, put on Sybil Danning in "L.A. Bounty."
