The Zebra Force

The Zebra Force
Can the end justify the means? When It's Revenge...All Hell Breaks Loose!
Directed by
Written by	Robert Leon (screenplay) (writer) (concept)
Produced by	(associate producer) Joseph Lucchese (producer) (executive producer) Larry Price (producer) (associate producer) (producer)
Starring	Mike Lane Richard X. Slattery Rockne Tarkington Timothy Brown
Cinematography	Billy Dickson Robert Maxwell
Edited by	Ed Hansen Michael Kahn
Music by	Charles Bernstein (as Charles Alden)
Production company
Distributed by	Echo Bridge Home Entertainment Trans World Entertainment Cannon Films
Release date	1976 (1976) (Argentina) 1980 (1980) (Philippines) 1984 (1984) (US)
Running time	100 minutes 86 minutes (Swedish cut version)
Country	United States
Language	English

The Zebra Force (Codename: Zebra, USA title) is a 1976 American film directed by . The film is about a group of Vietnam War veterans who declare war on Los Angeles drug dealers and the Mafia. The film is also known as Code Name: Zebra (US) and Commando Zebra (Italy). A sequel by Joe Tornatore with Mike Lane, also named Code Name: Zebra followed in 1987.^[1]

Plot[]

The film opens with a raid on an illegal casino performed by a group of blacks with automatic weapons. The audience discovers the perpetrators are white disguised as blacks. The story moves to a Vietnam War flashbacks with a patrol being ambushed by the Vietcong, and the resulting firefight. The leader of the vigilante veterans is a man known simply as the Lieutenant who was their platoon leader and disfigured in the action. Recuperating in a hospital he regroups the survivors for a series of escalating raids to not only to enrich themselves, but to wipe out organised criminal gangs involved in illegal gambling and narcotics distribution.

The main protagonist of the film is Carmine Longo, a Mafia enforcer sent to meet with local chief to discover who performed the action. The two are assisted by a corrupt Los Angeles Police Department detective sergeant. Their suspicion falls on their only known suspects, a gang of drug dealing black criminals who deny their involvement. Longo schemes to eliminate them through their police contact who will set up a drug deal where they can be killed by the police.

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External links[]

• The Zebra Force at IMDb
• The Zebra Force is available for free download at the Internet Archive
• The Zebra Force at Rotten Tomatoes
• Codename: Zebra at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Zebra Force at AllMovie
• Code Name: Zebra at AllMovie
• Zebra Force at Letterboxd

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