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Written by James M. Tate / 1/16/2024 / No comments / action , alan badel , angus macInnes , barbara bach , carl weathers , franco nero , guy hamilton , harrison ford , michael byrne , philip latham , richard kiel , robert shaw , sequel , world war II

HARRISON FORD AND ROBERT SHAW ‘FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE’

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjod6kTpQwSQjcUq4QAhSzSzeJe3zNpZ7Qv_FVXtqUm2bpwosEA9kuKn9cUb8axQYt58nNtNM05Cu4l3dJpifztslybzY0olLiaGjwvSShPHbBMBJNM8LY0wS0_KAs0WWl5D4EfRZVseDB_q-nPqqL9g5M-NdA6AdCiWL4fu-cTFU-BSytl_ww_HFM4frGO/s1394/3%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="1394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjod6kTpQwSQjcUq4QAhSzSzeJe3zNpZ7Qv_FVXtqUm2bpwosEA9kuKn9cUb8axQYt58nNtNM05Cu4l3dJpifztslybzY0olLiaGjwvSShPHbBMBJNM8LY0wS0_KAs0WWl5D4EfRZVseDB_q-nPqqL9g5M-NdA6AdCiWL4fu-cTFU-BSytl_ww_HFM4frGO/s16000/3%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE Year: 1978 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It was unnecessary starting FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE with an introduction about the original GUNS OF NAVARONE since the two have no important connections with each other, other than the same primary leads — replacing Gregory Peck with Robert Shaw and David Niven with Edward Fox as Mallory and Miller, respectively... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>While adding the newly-popular Harrison Ford from the previous years' STAR WARS as grouchy yet intrepid, sharp-shooting American Captain Barnsby, who, with his own secret mission, is initially spiteful working alongside the veteran Brits — and as an actor joined the list of scene-stealers from then-current blockbusters, including Shaw himself, the jovially-cantankerous shark-hunter Quint from JAWS, albeit classy and reserved here (playing the central role)...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

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HARRISON FORD AND ROBERT SHAW ‘FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE’

Title: FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE Year: 1978 Rating: ****1/2 It was unnecessary starting FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE with an introduction about the o...

SYLVESTER STALLONE STARRING AND DIRECTING 'ROCKY II'

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Which brings us to ROCKY II, where Stallone still had his wider, more natural, more realistic facial "baby fat" and unpolished muscles compared to the chiseled, veiny, hunger-scowling look of the third film (and thereafter) as Stallone himself director, doing a sort of mellower hang-out imitation of Avildson, at least in a visual sense....<br>
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SYLVESTER STALLONE STARRING AND DIRECTING 'ROCKY II'

Title: ROCKY II year: 1979 Starring/Director: Sylvester Stallone RATING: ***1/2 It seems like the last person who gets credit for the origin...

VIEWING TWO CUTS OF 'CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND'

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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicIvPYsLrXLjkP0wpDkWe9nEb8RcsCsT5zvHAwZPoMs9ZwAkhdJ5HX0wtjvoLW_hAGZDq-Z46JS2bSrws7OlKeTXG23BjsZwgE_EnZcPjjdpm4vg6xviUD1tUZjwiNrlOtMqL1uYkbB0yJdJ7qRYFAesqlt37Woo5XmTekmQUf5CNTn14t9eYqOCoj9A/s1348/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-03%20at%206.14.01%20PM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1348" data-original-width="962" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicIvPYsLrXLjkP0wpDkWe9nEb8RcsCsT5zvHAwZPoMs9ZwAkhdJ5HX0wtjvoLW_hAGZDq-Z46JS2bSrws7OlKeTXG23BjsZwgE_EnZcPjjdpm4vg6xviUD1tUZjwiNrlOtMqL1uYkbB0yJdJ7qRYFAesqlt37Woo5XmTekmQUf5CNTn14t9eYqOCoj9A/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-03%20at%206.14.01%20PM.jpeg" width="228" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table>And yet, Steven Spielberg directed CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND similar to how a disaster film builds to the flashpoint, along with particular scenes similar to the horror genre. Like when the "Spielberg Mom Character"... who are all always tough, independent yet sweet and vulnerable... and her little boy are visited noisily by determined, unseen aliens who make like Santa Clause by trying to sneak in through the.. Well you've probably seen the 1977 smash hit, and it's worth revisiting whenever turning up on the big screen, like recently, during the 40th Anniversary. Although the version shown under big theater lights is Spielberg's Director Cut, which deletes one sequence and, a bit later on, adds another...
The latter giving the future billionaire and newly million dollar director who was not yet thirty-years-old a chance to pay homage to both his cinematic hero, David Lean, who made LAWRENCE OF ARABIA that inspired John Milius's THE WIND AND THE LION, which has style and movement that would leapfrog over to RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK...

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A funny moment that isn't altogether necessary since dad will end up ditching his family for a journey into what could be endless outer space rollercoaster ride... Instead, starting out with a more lonely, disassociated suburban dad starring wanly at the train until the audience, and the character, are domesticated by a surge of bickering kids and an impatient mother/wife: And also in the original theatrical cut that's not on the Director's Cut, Dreyfuss is in a power station that not only proves his job and skills, but will soon differentiate "their" power to ours. Once he's underway searching through a map before the first encounter along the dark road, it was nice to have seen him nervous and awkward at the starting gate.<br />
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VIEWING TWO CUTS OF 'CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND'

At this point, it seems any movie anticipating extra terrestrials will end badly. As in, violently. And not in the human's favor since m...

Written by James M. Tate / 2/05/2017 / No comments / action , barbara bach , carl weathers , franco nero , guy hamilton , harrison ford , richard kiel , robert shaw , sequel , seventies , thriller , war

ROBERT SHAW & HARRISON FORD IN 'FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE'

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Begins as a straight-out action/adventure and gathering espionage/thriller elements along the way,  FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE is a fun, old school World War II programmer but hardly a genuine sequel to THE GUNS OF NAVARONE...<br>
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That movie, deemed a classic by critics and audiences alike, has two (three, actually) main characters played by leading men style actors as Gregory Peck and David Niven (and a Anthony Quinn) are replaced by character-actors Robert Shaw, riding high on his 1975 ignited JAWS fame, and Edward Fox, joining FORCE 10 led by an initially grouchy, and STAR WARS favorite, Harrison Ford, filling in Anthony Quinn's vacant position as third banana despite being on-par with Shaw: this ragtag team is sent from England to Italy and then into Yugoslavia...<br>
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Ford's mission is, at first, classified to Shaw, who joins to kill a German secret agent played by Franco Nero. The main goal is something that occurs in many war films: blowing up a strategic bridge used by the Germans while the b-story wields a more subtle underline for the tables to turn at any given moment.<br>
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Before the bombastic climax, twists begin to settle within the cracks of the somewhat cliche yet spontaneous rollercoaster ride. When the missions of Force 10 and the Nararone vets intertwine, you never really know which peripheral character's on the right side, adding intrigue and a fair amount of suspense. And as a completely unrealistic albeit fun casting bonus, Carl Weathers adds an edgy blaxploitation element, eventually going up against his "rival" of sorts, a formidable Richard Kiel, whose voice was replaced in post production.<br>
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A good thing when you have gun and knife fights, grand explosions and an ensemble dream cast banking in on actors from that period's smash hits: JAWS for Shaw, ROCKY for Weathers, and of course, Harrison Ford in STAR WARS and his trusted Reynolds is Angus McGuinness, who was Gold Leader in that same epic's Battle of the Death Star. And the biggest connection has to do with James Bond: One of the franchise's best directors, Guy Hamilton, captains two Bond villains and one Bond girl: Richard Kiel, who played the fan-adored henchman, Jaws, in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (and later, MOONRAKER); that same film's Barbara Bach; and Robert Shaw, the classic heavy from FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Barbara Bach and a few expendable Germans in Force 10 from NAVARONE</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Barbara Bach in FORCE TEN FROM NAVARONE</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The cool guy 1970's all-stars in FORCE TEN FROM NAVARONE</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Blasting away in FORCE TEN FROM NAVARONE</u></td></tr>
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action, barbara bach, carl weathers, franco nero, guy hamilton, harrison ford, richard kiel, robert shaw, sequel, seventies, thriller, war

ROBERT SHAW & HARRISON FORD IN 'FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE'

FORCE 10 actors Nero, Ford, Shaw, Fox and Weathers YEAR: 1978 Begins as a straight-out action/adventure and gathering espionage/thriller...

STALLONE TAKES RUSSIA IN ROCKY IV

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When Stu Nahan, an ongoing ROCKY franchise sportscaster, has to admit "The Soviet strength is incredible," referring to Dolph Lundgren's bionic Russian fighter, there's an obvious political Cold War (and at this point, very dated) message going on and alas, a few minutes later, Apollo Creed, one of the great all-time cinematic athletic antagonists (turned friendly fellow), is killed in the ring following the type of sell-out training routine Rocky Balboa went through before getting pummeled in the last, far superior venture... only without dying and sans a James Brown (as opposed to a lounge-lizard Frank Stallone) performance.<br>
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The first half of ROCKY IV involves completely banal crap like a robot that talks to (and belongs to) Paulie while playing one of many throwaway soundtrack tunes; a miscast son who looks not one bit Italian; and a collage of memories from our heartbroken hero, seeming like an MTV video and repeating scenes just experienced: For once again, Rocky lost a trainer to the Grim Reaper... Only this time, our main man's decision to get back into the ring, for pure revenge this time, is met with very little reluctance, and the movie goes from glossy-vapid to grainy-legit when Rocky trains in the isolated, snowy region of Russia, getting in shape while helping peasants, dodging the KGB and eventually climbing a mountain... an intentionally progressed homage from that famous outdoor staircase back in hometown Philly...<br>

boxing, burt young, carl weathers, dolph lundgren, eighties, franchise, james brown, sport, sylvester stallone, talia shire

STALLONE TAKES RUSSIA IN ROCKY IV

year: 1985 When Stu Nahan, an ongoing ROCKY franchise sportscaster, has to admit "The Soviet strength is incredible," referr...

STALLONE WEATHERS IN ROCKY III

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Apollo <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2015/11/creed.html">CREED,</a> played by Carl Weathers, whose bastard son is now fighting in theaters and receiving critical praise, gets credit for doing in ROCKY III what Sylvester Stallone's title character does for phony professional wrestling: legitimizes it... Following a collage of scenes, ranging from a Muppet Show appearance to our boy finally getting his lines down for a commercial, Rocky has a photo-op match with Hulk Hogan that becomes genuinely bloody, which, despite being completely far-fetched, doesn't lack some classic camp value. When Burt Young's Paulie smashes Hogan's Thunderlips with a stool it's something to marvel...<br>
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And speaking of Rocky's bum brother-in-law, after witnessing glimpses of what we later learn are a dozen fights to sustain and establish Rocky as heavyweight champion without having to really give his all, the actual opening credits occur without the dynamic Bill Conti victory score during what feels like the original two "art house street centered boxing" films: as a plundered Paulie leaves the same old bar, walks sullenly down a grungy Philly boulevard and, in a jealous, drunken rage, busts a Rocky pinball machine, leading to a glorious scene in a jailhouse parking lot between Stallone and Young's polar opposites, both always bringing out the best of the worst in each other...<br>
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boxing, burgess meredith, burt young, carl weathers, eighties, franchise, sport, sylvester stallone, talia shire