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New York police are bemused by reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York, until the lizard starts to eat people. An out-of-work ex-con is the only person who knows the location of the monster's nest and is determined to turn the knowledge to his advantage, but will his gamble pay off or will he end up as lizard food?

Cast

Michael Moriarty

as Jimmy Quinn

Candy Clark

as Joan

David Carradine

as Shepard

Richard Roundtree

as Powell

James Dixon

as Lt. Murray

Malachy McCourt

as Commissioner

Fred J. Scollay

as Capt. Fletcher

Peter Hock

as Det. Clifford

Ron Cey

as Det. Hoberman

Mary Louise Weller

as Mrs. Pauley

Reviews

Wuchak

***Amusing Big City monster flick featuring Quetzalcoatl*** As two Manhattan detectives (David Carradine and Richard Roundtree) investigate deaths linked to Aztecan ritual a huge winged serpent begins preying on citizens. A piano-playing street thug (Michael Moriarty) claims to know where its nes...

CinemaSerf

This could have been so much better if the casting were not so dreadful. As it is, it's only a passable adventure that sees two cops - David Carradine and Richard Rowntree on the case of a murderer who ruthlessly decapitates his victims - usually whilst they are seemingly impregnable on a rooftop, o...

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