Sidewalks of Bangkok

Adventure, crime and mystery combine with comic book dialogue and some sadistic sex for good measure. Playfully perverse, pistol-packing fun with Yoko and the alluring Francoise Blanchard.

Cast

Yoko

as Eva

Françoise Blanchard

as Claudine

Jean-Claude Benhamou

as Le chef des espions

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

as Capitaine Bouyxou

Jean-Paul Bride

as Tong

Gérard Landry

as Phil

Brigitte Borghese

as Rita

Olivier Rollin

Evelyn Raess

Reviews

Monroville

There’s quite a lot been said and written about Jean Rollin’s The Sidewalks of Bangkok and there are just as many opinions about it. Some favour it because it, for Rollin standards, holds a pretty fast and furious beat to it. Others feel that it’s a bastard child which sticks out to much compared to...

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