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After countryboy Tone has helped him against a bunch of bullies,
student Aod decides to offer him abode in his house in Bangkok so he can
study in the city. Aod and Tone soon become best friends, and everybody in
Aod's household likes Tone ... everybody but Aod's sister Dang, with whom
he somehow got off on the wrong foot - but even she has a soft spot for
him, safely hidden away. Then though Tone saves her from her boyfriend
Pol, and she immediately falls head over heels in love with him - but he
doesn't seem to care too much about her, because he has his own sweetheart
back home, Kularg.
What Tone doesn't know though is that Kularg has moved to Bangkok as
well, and that she and Aod - who doesn't know about her and Tone - are
romantically involved.
Tone doesn't find out about this until Aod's birthday party, and then
it breaks his heart. However, Dang finally manages to comfort him, and
ultimately the two become a couple ...
Re-enter Pol, Dang's almost rapist, who wants his revenge on her and
Tone, and to this end he has brought in Amnaj, one of the bullies from the
beginning of the film who has at one point also tried to rape Kularg ...
Soon enough, Pol and Amnaj have kidnapped both Dang and Kularg, and
have managed to capture Tone, who has gone after them ... but they haven't
taken into account that Aod might come after them as well, and so after
chases by foot, car and motofbike, after fistfights and shootouts, the
villains get their just desserts, and the heroes get their respective
girls ...
Though it was a tremendous success in Thailand upon its release, Tone
is not all that special a film, a rather traditional blend of romance and
action, pepped up with a bit of pop music. That said though, the film is
at the same time highly charming as a document of its times, full of late
60's/early 70's outfits, designs and overall coolness, peppered with a mix
of beat, psychedelic and hippie music (all very Westernized, actually), a
few traditional Thai songs and, for better or worse, a variation on Lalo
Shifrin's Mission Impossible Theme.
Not a great movie, but likeable.
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