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Written by James M. Tate / 4/08/2025 / No comments / action , adventure , eighties , fantasy , gavan o'herlihy , george lucas , jean marsh , joanne whalley , pat roach , rick overton , ron howard , val kilmer

VAL KILMER, JOANNE WHALLEY AND WARWICK DAVIS IN 'WILLOW'

<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/AVvXsEh4hwG_MuPaN2tmGuZWNpk4oyYor_NY6zcb6c4MlTh2ImtwU1f3dyeDdls4rIUJb-ry3Y-po5jeUfUReMkI6QkjmyEUXyF7S3vRxjJZhEp2qUdioNTcjtJVS_gWoJ-4Bm_W5mq0oNFqsZO9NuI2WXUPnolMcu0sdDBysET_8HoltOhyphenhyphen4tHqDXjIQlT3j4ti/s1878/Screen%20Shot%202025-04-06%20at%208.39.17%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="1878" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4hwG_MuPaN2tmGuZWNpk4oyYor_NY6zcb6c4MlTh2ImtwU1f3dyeDdls4rIUJb-ry3Y-po5jeUfUReMkI6QkjmyEUXyF7S3vRxjJZhEp2qUdioNTcjtJVS_gWoJ-4Bm_W5mq0oNFqsZO9NuI2WXUPnolMcu0sdDBysET_8HoltOhyphenhyphen4tHqDXjIQlT3j4ti/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-04-06%20at%208.39.17%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: WILLOW Year: 1988 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a point in the George Lucas production WILLOW directed by Ron Howard, a cross between STAR WARS and THE LORD OF THE RINGS, when Val Kilmer's ragged heart-of-gold scoundrel Madmartigan is battling an antagonist at the back of a horse-drawn carriage, and Lucas's RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK also comes to mind...<br><br>Overall paced more like a rugged Western than Magical Fantasy, Ron Howard seems more at home with fast-paced action than thrusting the viewer into another world where, like in STAR WARS, an important someone has to be rescued by a naive farmer... in this case the titular WILLOW played by former Ewok Warwick Davis, who goes on the initial foot journey to protect an infant that will overthrow a vicious sorcerer-queen... <br></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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VAL KILMER, JOANNE WHALLEY AND WARWICK DAVIS IN 'WILLOW'

Title: WILLOW Year: 1988 Rating: *** There's a point in the George Lucas production WILLOW directed by Ron Howard, a cross between STAR ...

GREAT NOVELIZATIONS: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALAN DEAN FOSTER

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GREAT NOVELIZATIONS: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALAN DEAN FOSTER

Star Trek The Motion Picture Early Artwork for Vulcan Shuttle A long time ago, in... the seventies and early eighties, it wasn’t so easy...

IMAGINE IF 'BATTLESTAR GALACTICA' INFLUENCED 'STAR WARS'

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1) <u>ARMORED HENCHMEN IN THE SNOW</u>: The Cylon in the snow from an episode titled THE GUN AT ICE STATION ZEBRA, based on the classic war movie THE GUNS OF NAVARONE, which, along with THE DAMN BUSTERS, influenced the main plot of STAR WARS: blowing up a massive and powerful, highly destructive weapon...<br>
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There's something about both the chromed, primeval BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Cylon and the white-plated, deadly yet poor-aiming Stormtroopers, contrasting against the pure white snow, that looks very cool, slick and downright formidable, menacing. So as we stridently <i>Imperial March</i> forward with this bizarre and far-fetched premise that should be taken with a grain of Tatooine sand... that perhaps the house stole from the thief... let's continue with... <br>
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2) <u>ARMORED HENCHMEN IN THE FOREST</u>: In the Galactica episode THE YOUNG LORDS, Lt. Starbuck, a cocky pilot the likes of Han Solo, goes to a forest planet and is rescued from foliage-stomping Cylons by an unlikely band of heroic underdogs...<br>
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Not Ewoks but ragtag kids who help Starbuck overtake the Cylons using primal and makeshift techniques they learned from surviving in this element. Also like Ewoks, they blow a horn that echoes throughout the forest in almost the same exact manner and tone. So while Battlestar might have influenced Star Wars to bring the Stormtroopers to the snow, now it's another remote location...<br>
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Also, in RETURN OF THE JEDI, while Luke becomes the main element with his fight against his father, Darth Vader, Han Solo provides the b-story: to find the generator that turns off the New Death Star's shield. In this Battlestar episode, Starbuck and the YOUNG LORDS are also searching for a weakness among the Cylon fortress within a castle. And, so, like the armed, masked villains shown against the snow, here it's the surrounding green forest: nature abhorring a villainous vacuum that seems so much more suited to the fleshy likes of mankind. <br>
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3) <u>PYRAMID SCHEME:</u> For George Lucas, between EMPIRE and JEDI was RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK about archeologist Indiana Jones...<br>
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In one Galactica episode we see our usually space-set heroes literally down to earth on a planet much like Egypt, like in the yet to-be-created Indiana Jones world, and both RAIDERS and STAR WARS were based on pulp books, comics and serials: Jones epitomizes action and adventure with a confidence all his own, and yet Harrison Ford plays him just as daring, funny and vulnerable as Solo. But what's most telling about the Galactica episode (THE MAGNIFICENT WARRIORS) is what's inside a particular crypt, very much like the RAIDERS Staff of Ra: a device moving particular secret stones around is very familiar indeed.  <br>
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4) <u>SEXUALLY FRUSTRATED CORRIDOR SPAT</u>: In EMPIRE, when Han Solo and Princess Leia argue in an icy corridor of the Hoth planet Rebel outpost, and at one point reluctantly fall into each others arms, a similar thing occurs in the original BATTLESTAR GALACTICA movie in which Lorne Green's Adama's pretty daughter begs Starbuck to help out instead of backing out...<br>
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Starbuck, played by Dirk Benedict... who would gain even wider television fame on THE A-TEAM as a handsome mercenary named Face... is the epitome of how Galactica borrowed heavily from the STAR WARS template: That said, Richard Hatch as Captain Apollo was the Luke Skywalker main character, yet was nothing close to the Solo/Starbuck similarities. And poor Hatch never got over the fact the writers seemed to prefer the cocky womanizing hotshot over his own stalwart, dependable hero... <br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Something about a repressed yet mutual crush in a tight space</u></td></tr>
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"Why  do the girls always go for the bad guy or the naughty guy?" Hatch pondered in a <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2010/03/richard-hatch-battlestar-galactica.html">Cult Film Freak interview</a>. "I think 
 writers love to write for deliciously bad characters or flawed  
characters, and when a character is kind of the, you know, good guy,  
they’re not as interested."<br>
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And the same can be said for a sometimes thankless Mark Hamill. Despite being the masthead of a trilogy that's always been regarded as "From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker," Han wound up stealing the show. And yet, even with a price on his head, the rogue eventually succumbs to doing the right thing for the right people. So the point here is... no matter how far, far away you go... whether in the STAR WARS or BATTLESTAR GALACTICA universe... While men might rule the universe, women control it. And may the <i>feldercarb</i> be with you, always.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Novelizations tie in books were also an important part of both franchises, of course started by Star Wars by Alan Dean Foster</u></td></tr>
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IMAGINE IF 'BATTLESTAR GALACTICA' INFLUENCED 'STAR WARS'

Stars Wars to Battlestar Years: 1977-1983 The original BATTLESTAR GALACTICA wasn't very original, snaking special effects and overall st...

PROS & CONS OF THE 'RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK' NOVELIZATION

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PROS & CONS OF THE 'RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK' NOVELIZATION

Harrison Ford battles Pat Roach while producer Frank Marshall looks on What makes a good novelization? One word: Flow.... If the writing...

ARCHIVE SUMMARY REVIEW FOR 'RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK'

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Harrison Ford brings "Indy" to life with humor as well as bravado. Karen Allen, as his female counterpart, is as tough as any man but delicate and vulnerable as well. The plot is simple: find the lost Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis, aided by French  archaeologist Belloq (played with subtle villainy by Paul Freeman) or the sinister yet smiley Peter Lorre-style gangster, Toht. Director Steven Spielberg's mesmerizing camerawork carries our heroes from one perilous situation to the next. And brief pockets of essential downtime not only build the characters, but allows the next obstacle to mean that much more.<br>
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Raiders of the Lost Ark YEAR: 1981 ***** Epic celebration of serial pulp adventures, George Lucas (and Philip Kaufman) created Indiana Jon...

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<i>A long time ago... in this galaxy, the STAR WARS franchise was a perfect thing... So let's return to the sublime past when George Lucas ruled the universe... Although, wedged between the first two films, there was one rotten holiday egg Lucas still can't believe he green-lighted... but let's start with the great stuff...  </i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1977 rating: *****</td></tr>
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<b>STAR WARS:</b> What
 makes this stand out from the others, including the progressed 
follow-up THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, is the introduction to the thoroughly
 addictive universe and those wonderfully involving characters, as well 
as writer/director George Lucas's sublime use of building suspense in 
every frame.<i> Almost there</i> is not only a line muttered by a pilot in 
the final battle, but an underline throughout a film that continually keeps the viewer entranced in what's <span style="font-style: italic;">about </span>to
 happen: From the doom-awaiting soldiers in a captured spaceship; to a 
frightened droid rolling along a shadowy canyon; to a distress call from
 a trash compactor; to those delicate moments as the Death Star aligns to blow up the Rebel base...<br />
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A young George Lucas who, years later, would 
abandon precision and timing for billion dollar green-screen<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>computers, was a master at creating his own galaxy and keeping the audience completely enthralled within.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1980 rating: *****</td></tr>
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<b>THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK:</b> Perhaps the greatest science-fiction adventure ever made, this, the follow-up to
 STAR WARS, replaces introduction with non-stop action: pitting our 
heroes against a much stronger Empire, using, instead of the Death Star,
 a fleet of formidable Star Destroyers.<br />
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This time the black-masked baddie has a personal agenda: to 
capture Luke <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Skywalker</span> who, after battling Imperial Walkers on the ice planet <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Hoth</span>, trains under a <span style="font-style: italic;">brand new </span>(and
 thereafter iconic) character, Yoda, brilliantly voiced and maneuvered by Frank Oz. <br />
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The story, written by George Lucas, was, before Lawrence <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Kasdan</span> took the helm, scripted by Leigh <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Brackett</span>, author of classic Sci-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">fi</span>
 Pulp novels which this is a slick replica of: including masculine 
bravado, seemingly doomed characters fighting impossible odds, vile 
thugs, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">betrayal</span>, budding romance, and a cliffhanger ending while EMPIRE is not a film, it's a visual symphony... and then some.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1983 rating: ****1/2</td></tr>
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<b>RETURN OF THE JEDI: </b>Don’t let the Ewoks<i> ruin</i> what’s an almost perfect science-fiction yarn... Mark Hamill, better than ever, along with Darth Vadar and Ian McDiarmid 
as the Emperor, are the real focus while Harrison "Han Solo" Ford and 
Carrie "Princess Leia" Fisher provide the essential B-story...<br />
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Having 
landed on the Forest planet of Endor, they must shut down the Death 
Star's shields so that the rebels, led by Billy Dee Williams, returning 
as Lando, can blow up the new, under-construction Death Star in a dogfight like no other,
 even surpassing the original... While the light saber battle between Luke and 
Vader – Luke resisting the Emperor's temptation... is what really 
shines, capping the timeless series in an almost Biblical fashion. And 
the first act in Jabba the Hutt’s palace of goons... all created by Jim 
Henson... look better, and seem more real, than any computer animation.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1978 rating: *1/2</td></tr>
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<b>STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL:</b> Before
  the horrid prequels it seemed impossible for George Lucas to back a  
travesty. Yet despite the sought-after camp legacy, this TV special,  
aired only one time in 1978, is downright boring.<br />
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Overlong
 "comedy"  and/or musical skits featuring Harvey Korman as a robot, Bea 
Arthur as  the Cantina bartender, Art Carney as a chummy mechanic, and 
Chewbacca's  family: consisting of wife, son, and dad...the latter 
having a virtual  reality "experience" with hologram Diahann Caroll... 
make for the  longest ninety minutes ever filmed... And perhaps the worst 
skit has Bea Arthur as the owner of the Cantina, singing a melancholy 
song after closing time. Not forgetting a wimpy Jefferson  Starship 
video and Carrie Fisher crooning to red-robbed Wookies about  "Life 
Day": a Christmas type celebration the Empire wants to stop. Meanwhile, Harrison
 Ford, Mark Hamill, and the faithful droids provide embarrassing 
cameos. But throughout the immense torture, a ten minute  cartoon 
introducing Boba Fett is actually pretty cool. So <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4CtXcjib4o">click this link</a> to actually witness this infamous catastrophe that, before the Internet, was very difficult to find... Lucky us!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May The FORCE AWAKEN us, with our fingers and lightsabers crossed, on December 18th, 2015.</td></tr>
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QUICK GLIMPSE INTO THE STAR WARS ORIGINAL TRILOGY

Short and Concise Reviews of the original STAR WARS Trilogy A long time ago... in this galaxy, the STAR WARS franchise was a perfect thi...

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CHARLTON HESTON IN SECRET OF THE INCAS

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Harry Steele, a womanizing adventurer played by Charlton Heston, looks awfully familiar. With a worn brown leather jacket and a fedora hat, he’s a dead ringer for Harrison Ford’s iconic Indiana Jones...<br />
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But wait… 
SECRET OF THE INCAS came out thirty years before the Steven 
Spielberg/George Lucas epic RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. That’s right, 
Indy’s not entirely original – although this isn’t a big surprise as the
 character’s an intentional composite of serial pulp heroes that Lucas 
grew up worshiping: But enough of the improved 1981 homage, let’s center on 
Heston’s Steele, an American maverick abroad running a tour guide 
service as a front. He’s really into fortune hunting and happens upon lovely Nicole Maurey who needs a plane to escape from Peru. Harry can help 
her but he’s got a trick up his sleeve. But that’s nothing compared to 
his shady counterpart Ed Morgan, an old gruff heavyset con man who’s 
really an adversary – tailing Steele, he wants what his young rival’s 
after: an Incan treasure that, if found and returned to its mountainous 
Peruvian origin The Temple of the Sun, can renew the ancient 
civilization… or something.<br />
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There’s not much action other than one scene
 where Harry and Elena wind up stealing the plane. After landing, they 
take a long hike to the temple where the storyline, promising much, 
comes to nothing. Robert Young’s Stanley Moorehead is introduced: a 
gentleman who wants Elana’s hand in marriage. Only she’s fallen for the 
roguish Steele, who should be doing a lot more to live up to his 
adventurous ways.<br />
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Much of the time’s spent on an Indian woman crooning 
an irritating form of tribal scat to the gods – this while Harry, in the
 11th hour, winds up in a cavern where… like the RAIDERS OF THE LOST 
ARK’s Staff or Ra scene… places gems in the wall where a shaft of light 
lead to the next step. Only thing is – there’s no next step... The 
journey, which is anything but perilous, ends right there. <i> ALSO:</i><i> The  tribal chanting main theme is used in THE BIG LEBOWSKI after The Dude is
 drugged by Jackie Treehorn in his Malibu hideaway. And the costume 
designer for RAIDERS has admitted she used Harry Steele as an aesthetic 
template for Indy Jones.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charlton Heston is Harry Steele in SECRET OF THE INCAS</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Staff of Ra sequence in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charlton Heston looking very Indy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hey, yo, Mrs. C? Yes, that's HAPPY DAYS mother Marion Ross flirting with Heston</td></tr>
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CHARLTON HESTON IN SECRET OF THE INCAS

year: 1954 rating: ** Harry Steele, a womanizing adventurer played by Charlton Heston, looks awfully familiar. With a worn brown leather...

Written by James M. Tate / 12/31/2013 / 3 Comments / all night , anna bjorn , candy clark , charles martin smith , cindy williams , delroy lindo , george lucas , hangout , harrison ford , mackenzie phillips , mary kay place , paul lemat , ron howard , sequel , seventies , war

CRUISING THE PSYCHEDELIC SEQUEL 'MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1979 cast: Paul LeMat, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Cindy Williams, Bo Hopkins rating: ***</td></tr>
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The George Lucas retro classic AMERICAN GRAFFITI showed seven kids cruising a busy Central California boulevard the night of the last day of high school, 1962, and the sequel spends an entire day and night during New Year’s Eve two years later.  <br />
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Since it’s reported at the end of the original that Paul LeMat’s cool cat John Milner – the hot rod James Dean type with the fastest car in town – was killed by a drunk driver in 1964, the sequel’s starting point has all the main characters except Richard Dreyfuss (now a writer in Canada) meeting at a drag race course to cheer on Milner at the tail end of that fateful year.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The gang reuniting in 1964</td></tr>
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Thus we follow the surviving characters in other New Year Eve’s throughout the sixties: Terry Toad Philips in Vietnam, 1965; Debbie in San Francisco, 1966; and Steve and Laurie Henderson in 1967. <br />
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Let's start with the most conventional characters of the original: Steve and Laurie, played by Ron Howard and Cindy Williams, who were both, at that point, known for their roles on HAPPY DAYS and the successful spin off LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY, are still a bickering couple with kids and a hellish relationship going nowhere but down, down, down.<br />
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The unhappily married duo have only wedding rings in common. Laurie wants to work but Steve, an insurance salesman, forces her to stay at home with their bratty kids. This was before Women’s Rights and Laurie wants her independence.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laurie (Cindy Williams) and Steve (Ron Howard) circa 1967</td></tr>
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Speaking of independence, her little brother is a college hippie radical. The campus is part of a violent protest and he calls Laurie to bring his driver’s license, without which he can’t leave the campus and might be shipped off to war.<br />
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Laurie, like Jane Fonda in COMING HOME, is unrealistically oblivious to the counter-culture peace movement: at one point she even mentions that the kids should back the President.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Suburban mom Laurie (Cindy Williams) learns about being a hippie</td></tr>
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It's quickly obvious the entire purpose of this segment is the predictable character arc of both Laurie and Steve (who eventually has to rescue her): the cops are bad and the students are good.<br />
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The only thing truly worthwhile here is the music – the rest is an overly preachy agenda, proving that hippies aren’t very interesting characters: they all look the same, have similar motivations, and don’t stand apart from each other.  <br />
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Actually, <i>one </i>hippie does stand apart...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Debbie (Candy Clark) and boyfriend Lance arrested by Bob Falfa (Harrison Ford) circa 1966</td></tr>
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Candy Clark’s 1966 "Winter of Love" segment is bit more entertaining...<br />
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Her jerk musician boyfriend is cheating and the ever-smiling bleach-blonde Debbie accidentally winds up hanging out with a rock band: touring a cowboy bar and other venues throughout a comically hectic day and night.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Split-screen showing Candy Clark and Scott Glenn</td></tr>
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A long-haired Scott Glenn plays the lead guitarist, and Debbie only needs to realize: he’d make a much better boyfriend. There’s some decent action sequences involving the bus crashing into a building, and the music here, like Steve and Laurie's tale, is also of the psychedelic genre.<br />
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Aesthetically, the use of multi-screen (popular in 1960’s films like MEDIUM COOL, THE THOMAS CROWNE AFFAIR and the WOODSTOCK documentary) attempts to dress up a non-story.  <br />
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And Mackenzie Phillips' Carol is all grown up, now named Rainbow and appearing only sporadically: the epitome of a "guest starring" role. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Terry The Toad Philips in Vietnam circa 1965</td></tr>
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The best story has Terry "The Toad" Philips in Vietnam. The visual gimmick is seeing everything through what looks to be a grainy 16 millimeter film stock (liken to news reels), with only a box filling the inside of the screen with black surrounding it. <br />
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Toad and the former lead Pharaoh Little Jo, played by Bo Hopkins, hang around the muddy barracks or fly around in Hueys, dodging death at every turn (the film opens with helicopters soaring to the song HEAT WAVE).<br />
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But Toad just wants to go home through being injured and he just can’t catch a break, literally. Think of his character as Jamie Farr's Max Klinger from MASH, only instead of wearing dresses he's trying to hurt his way back home. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bo Hopkins partners up with Toad in Vietnam</td></tr>
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The copters look cool and are reminiscent of APOCALYPSE NOW, the blockbuster that came out the same year, 1979.  <br />
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Perhaps George Lucas, who executive produced this sequel written and directed by Bill L. Norton (director of GARGOYLES), wanted a piece of what he missed out from the Francis Ford Coppola Vietnam War venture, which he was originally connected with.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Huey Copters skim the river</td></tr>
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The use of Motown hits (circa 1965) works well during the Vietnam story, jovially contrasting with the bloody battles while the cinematography captures the deep dark green colors of 'Nam. The theme song of John Wayne's THE GREEN BERETS also serves as a caustic anthem for the anti-war proceedings. <br />
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This adventurous segment is all about Toad first trying to find a shortcut home and then teaming with a Gung Ho soldier (James Houghton), who eventually realizes war is a living/breathing hell: something Toad knew all along.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Milner's yellow dragster</td></tr>
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Last but not least is the John Milner drag racing story, taking place on and off the crowded and colorful California race grounds...<br />
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Milner is a good driver but can’t get a sponsor, and has to win a few quick jaunts in order for corporate-backed teams to take interest.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Milner with dream girl Eva (Anna Bjorn) circa 1964</td></tr>
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Here’s where the best (and really, the only) love story resides. Gorgeous blond model Ana Bjorn plays a naive foreign exchange student named Eva from Sweden… no, Iceland… that hangs around Milner like a lost puppy.<br />
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Eva doesn’t speak a lick of English but they have sparks. Ken Place (the cop in THE BIG CHILL and brother of Mary Kay Place, who has a small part) is a worthy antagonist as Milner’s drag strip rival, filling in the shoes of Harrison Ford’s Bob Falfa (turning up as a cop in the Candy Clark segment).<br />
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The drag strip races aren’t very exciting since the sleek speedsters roll for a total of five seconds before crossing the finish line, lacking the freewheeling spontaneity of the hot rods in the original.<br />
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Plus, Milner doesn't have his entire reputation to lose this time. His character, although very likable, is somewhat pointless throughout, especially since we know his hours are numbered.    <br />
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But this is still the second best story, ending with JM's famous yellow Deuce Coupe cruising down the midnight highway towards a pair of oncoming headlights – his death immanent.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Milner's Deuce Coupe heads for an implied disaster </td></tr>
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In many ways this is an unnecessary sequel but it’s nice to see the characters together again, even though they’re mostly apart.<br />
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The soundtrack (highlighted by Donovan's "Season of the Witch" followed by Cream, The Grateful Dead, a live appearance by Country Joe and the Fish and concluding with Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone") stands out more than the actual film, and the acting makes it a more than worthy viewing. <br />
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So while this visual experience is basically an “eight-foot ballerina,” there are times she can actually dance.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Naomi Judd (far left) sings "Baby Love" with Cindy Williams</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Delroy Lindo as an Army Sergeant barking orders at Toad</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Kay Place as Eva's friend Teensa</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eva (Anna Bjorn) covers her ears from...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The roar of the dragsters warming up</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paul LeMat as John Milner</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Antagonist driver Ken Place with Anna Bjorn</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anna Bjorn's Eva watches Milner race </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Kay Place with Anna Bjorn</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Apocalypse Now style hueys and a great font for MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>All Region Import Blu Ray signed by Candy Clark, Bo Hopkins and Paul LeMat MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Monica Tenner as Moonchild in MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI (if this is her)</u></td></tr>
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