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'Operation Amsterdam' is 'Amsterdamned'
By Jan Kijlstra

Scott Olson was asking for a copy of a film called 'Operation
Amsterdam'. He asked for it earlier, telling that in that film,
playing in Amsterdam, a street-organ was destroyed in an accident.

Since he repeated his question, I do assume he did not get any
reaction.  The film, and the organ, showed up earlier in the MMD.

The reason, however, that Scott did not get an answer, maybe the fact
that he is calling the film 'Operation Amsterdam'.  We know it by the
name 'Amsterdamned'.

I could probably buy a copy for Scott, but this copy will be in
PAL-format, and will have to be converted to NTSC to be played on
USA video players.

This is not a big thing to do, but I wonder if it would not be easier
to find a company in the USA, specialised on selling films on video,
and ask them if they could be at help?  After all, the film is
distributed in the USA.  I think that somewhere on the Internet the
distributor/seller of copies of this film can be found?

Jan Kijlstra

 [ This review of 'Amsterdamned' is at
 [
 [    http://www.trshcity.demon.co.uk/BLITZ/BLIT0009.HTM
 [
 [> Amsterdamned (Dick Maas) -- Something nasty is prowling the
 [> canals of Amsterdam, doing away with a selection of inhabitants
 [> at a rate of knots.  A swim 'n' slash pic?  Maybe, it's just
 [> like we're back in 1981, save a lack of teenagers.  There's a
 [> bit of a cop-out at the end -- to say more would spoil the
 [> deftly (or indeed, Delft-ly) generated tension.  A slight air of
 [> Dutch Tourist Board here; you get to see Rembrandt's 'The Night
 [> Watch' on a flimsy pretext, but is at least tulip-free.  It
 [> reminds me of 'Taggart' with bad dubbing.  Nice boat chase, too!
 [
 [ Ah, I love good British writing!  -- Robbie


(Message sent Tue 14 Apr 1998, 08:46:32 GMT, from time zone GMT+0200.)

Key Words in Subject:  Amsterdam, Amsterdamned, is, Operation

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