Mankillers, also known as 12 Wild Women, was filmed in 1986

1986 in film

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 in and around Riverside, California

Riverside, California

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, United States

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 and was written and directed by David A. Prior. The film was shot back to back with Deadly Prey

Deadly Prey

Deadly Prey is a 1986 film that was first screened in the United States in March 1987 at that year's American Film Market. After The Winters Group helped finance David A...

 as part of the newly formed Action International Pictures

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Action International Pictures also known as West Side Studios, is a film production and distribution company founded in 1986....

.

Plot

A female CIA agent is assigned to train and lead an all-female combat squad to Colombia to stop a renegade agent who has hired himself out to a drug cartel and white slaver. Unfortunately, the agent's recruits consists of prison convicts - murderesses, sociopaths, bank robbers, etc. These women are guaranteed clean slates on their records if the mission is successfully pulled off. Their past "experience" from their criminal endeavors offers them some insight and skill, but their vast amount of their mission-specific training will require them to learn team effort, self-sacrifice, and the ability to follow orders and achieve mission objectives.

Cast

• Edd Byrnes as Jack Marra
• Gail Fisher
  Gail Fisher
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   as Joan Hanson
• Edy Williams
  Edy Williams
  Edwina Beth "Edy" Williams is an American television and film actress.-Early years:Born in Utah and raised in Oregon and Southern California, Williams began her career as a model and beauty pageant contestant...
  
  as Sgt. Roberts
• Lynda Aldon as Rachael McKenna
• William Zipp as John Mickland
• Christine Lunde as Maria Rosetti
• Suzanne Tegmann as Terry Davis
• Marilyn Stafford as Roxanne Taylor
• Paul Bruno as Bruno
• Bryan Clark as Williams
• Thyais Walsh as Vicki Thompson
• Bainbridge Scott as Christine Rollins
• Cyndi Domino as Trish Daniels
• Amber Star as K.C. Grimes
• John Taylor as Mannetti
• Sheila Best as Margaret Skinner
• Naomi Delgado as Vannesa Shaw
• Arlene Julian as Lisa Leonardo
• Veronica Carothers as Shannon Smith