Death Stone

Death Stone (German: Der Stein des Todes) is a 1987 German-Sri-Lankan action film directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb and starring Albert Fortell, Heather Thomas, Elke Sommer, and Brad Harris. It was also released as Perahera and Jungle Fire.

Death Stone
Directed by	Franz Josef Gottlieb
Written by	Theo Maria Werner Heinz-Werner John
Produced by	Artur Brauner Chandran Rutnam Theo Maria Werner
Starring	Albert Fortell Heather Thomas Elke Sommer
Cinematography	Klaus Werner
Edited by	Renate Engelmann Iris Hoffmann
Music by	Luigi Ceccarelli
Production companies	CCC Film Taprobane Pictures
Distributed by	Ring-Film-Verleih
Release date	2 July 1987 (1987-07-02)
Running time	93 minutes (Germany)
Countries	West Germany Sri Lanka
Language	German

Plot

While in Sri Lanka attending the Esala Perahera festival, a man's girlfriend goes missing and is later found dead of a drug overdose. He then sets about going after the criminals who killed her.

Cast

• Heather Thomas as Merryl Davis
• Elke Sommer as Kris Patterson
• Brad Harris as Brian
• Tony Kendall as Miguel Gomez
• Siegfried Rauch as Hemingway
• Albert Fortell as Kumar Cunningham
• Serge Falck as Frank
• Birte Berg as Jane Lindström
• Christian Anders as Fred

Home media

In 2011 this film was released on DVD. The disc contains a German version of this film and as addition an interview with Brad Harris in English. Brad Harris talks about this film as well as about his film career in general.

Background

Brad Harris also states in the aforementioned interview he had written parts of the screenplay and was responsible for the choreography of all fights. Among other things he also mentions the Italian actors had brought provisions from Italy with them and had advised the cooks in their hotels to fix them meals à la Italian cuisine.

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.

External links

• Death Stone at IMDb
• Death Stone at AllMovie