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March 9th, 2013: The Professionals (1966)

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Leave a comment Posted in Western, Adaptation, Adventure, Movie of the Day, Based on a Book, Revisionist Western Tagged hostage, double cross, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Columbia Pictures, Best Cinematography Nominee, train, Best Director Nominee, Mexico, Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, banditos, Woody Strode, kidnapping, veteran, Texas, mercenary, Claudia Cardinale, Maurice Jarre, bandits, explosives, Ralph Bellamy, Conrad L. Hall, trackers, ransom, Jack Palance, Pancho Villa, Hispanic-face

August 26th, 2012: Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adventure, Coming of Age, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Remake, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, Western Tagged before they were famous, cash-in, Darlanne Fluegel, Drive-In, farm planet, farmers, George Peppard, hive mind, James Cameron, James Horner, Jeff Corey, John Sayles, low-budget, mercenary, New World Pictures, rip-off, Robert Vaughn, Roger Corman, Sam Jaffe, scientists, Seven Samurai situation, space cowboy, space trucker, Sybil Danning, teens, village

April 4th, 2012: The Magnificent Seven (1960)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Buddy Flick, Independent, Last Stand, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Remake, The Original, War Movies, Western Tagged banditos, bandits, before they were famous, Best Score Nominee, Brad Dexter, Charles Bronson, coward, Eli Wallach, Elmer Bernstein, farmers, greed, gunfighter, Horst Bucholz, James Coburn, John Sturges, knife thrower, mercenary, Mexico, remake of a foreign film, Robert J. Wilke, Robert Vaughn, Steve McQueen, The Mirisch Corporation, under siege, United Artists, Victor French, village, Yul Brynner

September 10th, 2011: The Streetfighter (1974)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Crime, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original Tagged cash-in, double cross, grindhouse, heiress, heterosexual life partner, hit man, homoerotic subtext, Japan, kidnapping, Masafumi Suzuki, mercenary, oil company, oil crisis, quotably bad dialogue, rip-off, sidekick, Sonny Chiba, stilted dialogue, Toei Company, Triad Gangsters, World War Two, Yakuza

April 4th, 2011: Sweepers (1998)

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2 Comments Posted in Action, DTV, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, Thriller Tagged alcoholic, Dolph Lundgren, double cross, land mines, love wil heal your loss, low-budget, mercenary, Nu Image, pit fighter, South Africa, tragic past

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