Sleeve Design : Graffiti Productions Limited

Angel of H.E.A.T.
 

Myrl A. Schreibman | USA | 1982

This supposed spoof of the ever-popular Spy thriller genre, had all the ingredients to be a cult success — but instead fails miserably — most likely on account of it being just plain silly and falling flat on its face at almost every turn.

The nonsensical story, which may have been the pilot for a series of similar films, concerns government operatives Mark (Stephen Johnson) and Samantha (Mary Woronov) who are assigned to investigate the theft of some powerful micro-chips. Also interested in this case is ‘The Protectors’: a group of international vigilante-like crime fighters (looking more like a bunch of college youths), led by a Kung Fu master with a phoney German accent. Angel Harmony (Marilyn Chambers in her third non-adult feature) is The Protectors’ number one agent: the titular Angel of H.E.A.T. [Harmony’s Elite Assault Team]. Chambers is showcased naked, wielding her karate skills in the film’s opening credits, while the ‘Angel of H.E.A.T.’ theme plays over the sequence in true Bond style.

The two parties arrive independently at micro-chip designer Albert Shockley’s (Dan Jesse) remote lodge, both trying to make some headway into the case. It’s here, after a series of madcap and saucy adventures encompassing topless female mud-wrestlers, androids, a dwarf club-owner serenaded by a stripping, Behind the Green Door(!) singing Chambers, that the film reaches its flacid climax. It seems that Albert has developed a superchip which can simultaneously broadcast information across all known radio bandwidths — planning to use it to take over the world with the help of his androids!

 

 

Originally released on tape by VTC in January 1983 (and later re-issued in the company’s VTC Award series), Angel of H.E.A.T. was also submitted in May 1984 by the company for theatrical exhibition, passed uncut with an ‘18’ certificate. 

Some years later, Xtasy Video Ltd. of Wandsworth, London appeared, making this their premiere video release in January 1987. Sleeve designers Graffiti Productions Limited jettisoned Steven Chorney's eye-catching poster artwork used for the earlier VTC releases (retaining only the synopsis from the reverse of the sleeves) and instead utilised a stock image of a naked sun-kissed blonde, licensed from Tony Stone Associates in St. John’s Wood, London.

 

aka : Angel of H.E.A.T. — The Protectors Book #1

cast : Marilyn Chambers, Stephen Johnson, Mary Woronov, Milt Kogan, Remy O'Neill, Dan Jesse, Gerald Okamura, Andy Abrams, Harry Townes, Jerry Riley, Hal Kant, Janis Thrash, Chuck Hoyes, Tony D'Andrea, Steve Cloud, Nelson Kirby, Kitty Dufresne, Tanya Santos, Robin Fenton