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Written by James M. Tate / 7/16/2022 / 1 Comment / david warner , disaster , ensemble , george kennedy , seventies , susan blakely , suspense , sybil danning

SUSAN BLAKELY FLYING HIGH INTO 'THE CONCORDE: AIRPORT 79'

<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/AVvXsEh82VDJb8vnZrem8SAMnahfk3o06Lt00zAvPmbdUzb8HB3PGId7zQdg_PjVBUz2oySEUg4TFSIx_wpF4I5Ij8nLI2cO2iAZq-YI9uALNB2Dz9ZuZx5O5J3bzZ9jTi04J-8zrwgd1KzbGs2VvGKy967Eeo25V_h7phX3Noor6Gqj9VN69VDaMDYF5WSKxQ/s1069/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-27%20at%208.22.09%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="1069" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh82VDJb8vnZrem8SAMnahfk3o06Lt00zAvPmbdUzb8HB3PGId7zQdg_PjVBUz2oySEUg4TFSIx_wpF4I5Ij8nLI2cO2iAZq-YI9uALNB2Dz9ZuZx5O5J3bzZ9jTi04J-8zrwgd1KzbGs2VvGKy967Eeo25V_h7phX3Noor6Gqj9VN69VDaMDYF5WSKxQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-27%20at%208.22.09%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>year: 1979  rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A jet plane, like the ones in the AIRPORT films, can’t do much. But unlike those bulky airliners, a hot rod can do plenty. And the Concorde Jet is the speedster of the skies.<br>
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So here's a plane that can dodge heat-seeking missiles, which occurs during the first of two flights – there and back from America to Paris. The plot has Robert Wagner as a corrupt businessman with something to hide. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

david warner, disaster, ensemble, george kennedy, seventies, susan blakely, suspense, sybil danning

SUSAN BLAKELY FLYING HIGH INTO 'THE CONCORDE: AIRPORT 79'

year: 1979 rating: *** A jet plane, like the ones in the AIRPORT films, can’t do much. But unlike those bulky airliners, a hot rod can do p...

TIM MATHESON IS A BOWLING 'DREAMER' WITH SUSAN BLAKELY

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tim Matheson and Susan Blakely in DREAMER Year: 1979</u></td></tr>
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Quickly following a retro opening-credit montage of the unique and antique history of the sport of bowling, you’d think the motion picture was about to end...<br>
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With the kind of gloriously climactic energy composer Bill Conti gave to Rocky Balboa's final bout in the two films made, we have Tim Matheson, as a character named DREAMER, winning a tournament as victorious music blares.<br>

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TIM MATHESON IS A BOWLING 'DREAMER' WITH SUSAN BLAKELY

Tim Matheson and Susan Blakely in DREAMER Year: 1979 Quickly following a retro opening-credit montage of the unique and antique history ...

LEGENDARY TELEVISION MINISERIES OF 'RICH MAN, POOR MAN'

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Although, soon enough, the bad luck, permanently stained on Nick Nolte's Tom Jordache, spreads onto everyone around him, including the series' true lead, Peter Strauss as Rudy Jordache, whose story of a delivery boy turned businessman turned aspiring politician intentionally clashes (albeit separately) with Nolte's hardboiled cross-country escapades...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rudy Strauss and Nick Nolte in an 11th hour celebration in RICH MAN, POOR MAN</u></td></tr>
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The best parts concerning Nolte's Tom occurs in the 11th hour, when he finally starts doing well... Working a charter boat with partner Herbert Jefferson Jr., his young son and perfect girlfriend turned wife Kay Lenz, life never looked better than all those low-rent dives he'd sulked around in, eventually chased by the mafia and thrown on a merchant marine steamer ship to get outta town, quick... <br>
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And on that ship's where the most sinister and eclectically nefarious villain is introduced in William Smith's Anthony Falconetti: Not only bullying smaller guys onboard by beating them to the proverbial pulp, what he does to Jefferson's Roy, Tom's best friend, is liken to why men fear prison because of what "Bubba" will make them...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nick Nolte as Tom Jordache in RICH MAN, POOR MAN </u></td></tr>
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While great actors, Strauss and Nolte seem ten years too old for playing teenagers, taking place in the first "chapter," literally seconds after World War II, living under their tyrannical father, played by award winning ham Edward Asner as a German baker with a bloody past and the kind of bad choices Nolte's Tom would inherit, almost to exact detail...<br>
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Nolte winds up living with his even worse (although successful) uncle, and here his story really begins, having an affair with a voluminous older woman he'll eventually name his beloved charter boat after...<br>
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Meanwhile, the most intriguing scenes involve Rudy's initial climb to success, starting in his college days while working for Ray Milland at an old fashion superstore that desperately needs modernizing... <br>
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The way Rudy climbs to the top is more intriguing and suspenseful than Nolte's roving Noir-inspired muscularity; the latter's story peaking once he's in the boxing game, which doesn't last long enough thanks to, again, horribly asinine (and downright frustrating) decisions. And in his own way, Strauss's Rudy is equally tough, providing a few wonderfully delivered lectures that, unlike his father (Asner), don't come across as overboard or melodramatic... <br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Smith and Susan Blakely violently bond in RICH MAN POOR MAN the last chapter</u><i><br></i></td></tr>
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But the glue connecting everything is Susan Blakely as Rudy's "childhood" semi-girlfriend Julie Prescott, the only of the three leads fitting the younger, teenage scenes as she curiously glimpses into the "mysterious side" of life with a tempestuous older-man affair (Robert Reed), and then, much like Tom, making her own path (in New York City) no matter the consequences.... <br>
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A progressive young woman ahead of her time, she unfortunately finds the wrong man in a horribly cast Bill Bixby, delivering each line straight out of community theater. His random imitations of Jimmy Stewart and others, supposedly personifying an omnipresent charm, are so cringe-worthy, time practically stands still while he's on screen (you'll wish he'd turn into the Hulk simply to kick his own ass)... </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kay Lenz as Kate Jordache in RICH MAN, POOR MAN</u></td></tr>
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Towards the end of this, the original RICH MAN, POOR MAN miniseries... followed by an actual full-season series, BOOK II, sans Nolte and with Strauss fighting political corruption and especially William Smith's demonic madman Falconetti... Blakely's Julie, married to would-be politician Rudy, amounts to boozing and complaining, even more of an albatross on Rudy than his brother ever was... <br>
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At one point, before Tom's tragic yet predictable death, Rudy points out how much better the POOR brother's life is (even though Tom's sudden turnaround was all Rudy's doing), attributed to either contentment or a comparably perfect bedmate in Kay Lenz. But that, like everything else, relates to the personal choices from either of three central figures which is really, deep down, a "modernized" Greek tragedy about what paths<i> not</i> to take — and then what happens after willingly setting forth into an inevitable, self-fulfilled perdition.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Two uncredited cuties in France in the 11th hour chapters of RICH MAN POOR MAN</u></td></tr>
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LEGENDARY TELEVISION MINISERIES OF 'RICH MAN, POOR MAN'

Robert Reed and star Peter Strauss in RICH MAN, POOR MAN Year: 1976 Rating: ****1/2 The two title siblings from RICH MAN, POOR MAN would h...

SYLVESTER STALLONE GOES CANNON FILMS IN 'OVER THE TOP'

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For a campy road movie, showing lovely desert/mountain locations throughout America where OVER THE TOP spends much of its time, in transit, Sylvester Stallone's trucker, Lincoln Hawk, is allowed access to his spoiled son, given holiday leave from a Military Academy.<br />
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Despite being protected by nefarious father-in-law Robert Loggia, Stallone's early-career LORDS OF FLATBUSH co-star Susan Blakely as ex-wife/mom, who spends her scenes dying in a hospital with sporadic phone calls, overrides Loggia's possibly mob-backed power. And be careful what you ask for: Hawk goes from cold to cool to luke-warm to warm & fuzzy with son Michael, played by child actor David Mendenhall, who Hawk wants to initially throw out of his truck, and you will too... But with all the flaws, the picture's banal escapism is pretty darn entertaining. While Sly's acting was superb in ROCKY and FIRST BLOOD (using a genuine speech impediment as part of his character's punchy brain, and throwing an incredible tantrum in the latter), he loosens up after an arm wrestling match at a diner, which provides our first glimpse into what TOP is about, and what Hawk's really good at. Thus the title fits Sly's new sweaty subject, not his performance. <br />
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The highway journey leads to an anticipated arm-wrestling championship in a big Las Vegas arena that dwindles down from a handful of brawny brutes to only two rivals, wherein giant bald-headed Rick Zumwalt's Bull makes for a terrific b-movie foe, providing Stallone the kind of Mr. T (or perhaps Hulk Hogan) "odds are extremely against the underdog" challenge that has a shocking amount of suspense despite the "sport" being pretty limited... making up for prior scenes consisting of Hawk and son slowly (and at the same time, much too quick and unrealistically) bonding in the claustrophobic truck/cab setting that, despite man's man Stallone being a genuinely straitlaced and honorable dude, borders on creepy, somehow.<br />
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Yet the soundtrack, while incredibly 80's-dated... backing up a chase scene; son literally handed a chance to prove his own strength against a mullet-haired bully; and downtime between dialogue... gloriously embodies the muscular matter-over-mind era that Stallone personified. Too bad the "King of the Sequels" couldn't have taken us OVER THE TOP AGAIN. Who knows, perhaps Bull had an estranged, bastard son who needs a trainer...<br />
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NORMAL RATING: ***<br />
CAMP VALUE: ***1/2

david mendenhall, eighties, road movie, robert loggia, sport, susan blakely, sylvester stallone

SYLVESTER STALLONE GOES CANNON FILMS IN 'OVER THE TOP'

year: 1987 cast: Sylvester Stallone, David Mendenhall For a campy road movie, showing lovely desert/mountain locations throughout Americ...

Written by James M. Tate / 7/10/2013 / No comments / import , jack warden , matt clark , mews small , richard b. schull , seventies , sport , susan blakely , tim matheson

TIM MATHESON IS 'DREAMER' W/ SUSAN BLAKELY & JACK WARDEN

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<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/04/dreamer.html">DREAMER REVIEW MOVED HERE</a><br /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Susan Blakely looking down on DREAMER Score: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tim Matheson bowls another strike in DREAMER</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tim Matheson is Dreamer in DREAMER</td></tr>
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import, jack warden, matt clark, mews small, richard b. schull, seventies, sport, susan blakely, tim matheson