- Franco Nero, Enter The Ninja, 1981. Stone, a world karate champipn, came up with the story but he was no scenarist and, as things turned out, no actor, either. By chance, Cannon producer Mehamen Golan discovered that Nero was also in Manila – waiting to hear if Blake Edwards wanted him for Victor Victoria. He did not. So he was invited to take over the hero, Cole. Great as a spaghetti cowpoke, Nero knew zilch about Ninjutsu. He was trained and doubled in most of his action scenes by… Stone. And dubbed as his acceng was far from Texan. Cannon made five American Ninja thud ’n’ blunders.
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