Ross Hagen has nothing to declare but his Friendly SUPERCOCK when he goes to Philippines on Garagehouse Pictures' Blu-ray.

Wealthy cockfighting promoter, drug lord, and all-around contraband kingpin Seeno Nono (Subas Herrero, SAVAGE SISTERS) decides to hold in Manila the International Cockfight Olympics with a $100,000 purse, sure as he that his cocks are the best. When he learns that the American contestant Seth Calhoun (Hagen) plans to enter only one cock into ring and takes a side bet pitting his cock against the top three, Seeno sends his personal assistant Yuki (Nancy Kwan, NIGHT CREATURE) to spy on him. When Yuki reports back that Seth has "the largest cock I've ever seen," Seeno conspires with his brothers Speeno (Joonee Gamboa, BROKEDOWN PALACE) and Heeno (Louie Florentino, RAW FORCE) to steal it. Seth, however, has already been tipped off about the Nonos by G.I. Joe (Tony Lorea, FIVE THE HARD WAY) about the ways of the Nonos; however, Seth is less sure about Yuki's intentions. When Nono arranges to sideline Seth in the hours before the match, G.I. Joe and a gaggle of Filipino urchins must take matters into their own hands.

Actor Hagen's follow-up to his previous exploitation adventure in the Philippines with Robert Vincent O'Neill's WONDER WOMEN, SUPERCOCK belongs to a small subgenre with Monte Hellman's COCKFIGHTER and Brice Mack's ROOSTER: SPURS OF DEATH but set in the country where it is (was?) practically the national sport. The action sequences are nowhere near as ambitious as the O'Neill film but Hagen, Kwan, and Lorea are an engaging trio going through the motions. There is plenty of talk about cockfighting and even more double entendre – although they are quite juvenile next to the laugh riot that is Clifford Geertz's essay "Deep Play" on Balinese manhood and cockfighting – that one assumes that the film will work around depictions of the "sport." The cockfighting action is saved for the last few minutes, and it is grueling but nowhere near as graphic as seen in other films (including other Philippine-set exploitation films where cockfighting rings serve as backdrops). Director Gus Trikonis (THE EVIL) had previously directed Hagen, his wife Claire (who usually has larger supporting roles but worked wardrobe here), and Lorea in FIVE THE HARD WAY/THE SIDEHACKERS which also featured Trikonis' then-wife Goldie Hawn. Trikonis helmed a handful of exploitation films throughout the 1980s including THE STUDENT BODY, MOONSHINE COUNTY EXPRESS, and THE SWINGING BARMAIDS before moving onto episodic television throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Hagen and Kwan would return to the Philippines three years later for NIGHT CREATURE.

Released to VHS by Paragon with the title understandably changed to FOWL PLAY, SUPERCOCK bypassed the DVD format with only the film's trailer appearing on Retromedia's DVD of WONDER WOMEN. Garagehouse Pictures' 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Blu-ray is purportedly sourced from the last remaining 35mm print which has been well-preserved. The results are generally good with bright and colorful animated opening credits while the saturated colors pop in the greenery and wardrobe while skintones veer towards the warm. The opening credits are framed at 1.66:1 (the rest of the film does not look compromised vertically so whoever prepared the credits may not have kept a 1.85:1 aspect ratio in mind). The sole audio option is a fairly clean DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 mono track.

The film is accompanied by an audio commentary by filmmaker Fred Olen Ray (HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS) who states at the beginning that he had nothing to do with the film and knows very little about it; however, he both worked and had friendships with some of the people involved. He recalls how he met Hagen and wife Claire when he first came to Los Angeles and was hired to do effects on a few projects for Ken Hartford – aka distributor Ken Herts of Herts-Lion (CARNIVAL OF SOULS) – that did not come to fruition, including the WONDER WOMEN sequel WARRIOR WOMEN. In between discussing his collaborations with Ross and Claire Hagen, as well as Lorea who had bit parts of Humphrey Bogart in two of his films, Ray dishes on the partnership between Hagen and Hartford (as well as Ray's subsequent dealings with Hartford's son Glen who committed suicide during an investigation into his business), Hartford's practices of selling films that he did not entirely own (it was Donald Jackson who retitled his own film DEMON LOVER as THE DEVIL MASTER not video distributor Regal Video ), the library of films that the Hagens accumulated over the years, as well as the Ray's own DVD releases of some of Hagen's films like the once-lost MARK OF THE GUN which also featured Lorea.