Dollman (film)
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| Directed by | Albert Pyun |
| Produced by | Cathy Gesualdo |
| Written by |
Charles Band David Pabian Chris Roghair |
| Starring |
Tim Thomerson Jackie Earle Haley Kamala Lopez Humberto Ortiz Nicholas Guest Judd Omen |
| Music by | Anthony Riparetti |
| Cinematography | George Mooradian |
| Edited by | Margaret-Anne Smith |
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Full Moon Entertainment
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| Distributed by | Paramount Home Video |
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Running time
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79 minutes (UK) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
For the Quality Comics character, see Doll Man.
Dollman is a 1991 science fiction action film directed by Albert Pyun and starring Tim Thomerson as the space cop Brick Bardo, also known as "Dollman" after being reduced to 13 inches in height while on Earth, hence his nickname. Despite his size, Bardo is equipped with his "Groger Blaster", which is the most powerful handgun in the universe. The film also stars Jackie Earle Haley as Bardo's human enemy, Braxton Red. Brick Bardo is a character name used by Albert Pyun in films dating back to his second film, Vicious Lips.
The film was produced by Full Moon Features, who also worked with Thomerson on the Trancers series. It was followed by a crossover sequel in 1993 called Dollman vs. Demonic Toys, which is also a sequel to Demonic Toys (1992) and Bad Channels (1992).
Dollman also had its own comic series published by Eternity Comics, who also made comics for other Full Moon-related films. A movie soundtrack still remains unavailable.
Brick Bardo is a Dirty Harry-type cop on the planet Arturos, which is many light years from Earth. One day, a criminal runs into a laundry venue where lots of plump women and their kids happen to be, and he keeps them hostage while police officers are outside the premise. Bardo humorously enters to do his laundry, and the crook is rather surprised by this defiant act. After saving the scared hostages by causing the fat women to faint and fall onto the bad guy by threatening to use his gun to blow a hole through them—"the most powerful handgun in the universe", proclaims a young boy—Bardo, instead of being hailed a hero, is shouted at by the mayor, who knows of Bardo's usually violent methods and Bardo was supposed to be suspended.
The film then cuts to Bardo in his apartment, where a news broadcast implies that Bardo is being framed for the deaths of the hostages in the laundromat, as a setup. Just then, a man begins to fire at Bardo and tells him an "old friend" wishes to see him, before using some device which puts Bardo to sleep. After Bardo wakes up on a desert plain, Sprug—Bardo's greatest enemy—says that modern medicine did him wonders, unlike Bardo's deceased family. Sprug tells Bardo he will shoot all his body parts off, just as Bardo did to Sprug before (Sprug only has his ugly head remaining on a floating jet after all their previous encounters). The two men with Sprug are about to kill Bardo using Bardo's own custom Groger Blaster, but Bardo uses a magnetic field in his hand to retrieve his gun and quickly shoots the two henchmen into bloody chunks. One of them is blasted in half, smokes a cigarette and asks what Bardo wants, but he just says "nothing" in a monotone manner before chasing after Sprug. Despite an advertised warning not to enter an energy band (some mysterious glowing lights in space), both Sprug and Bardo go through one such energy band, eventually reaching Earth where they are shrunken to several inches in height.
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