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Written by James M. Tate / 4/16/2025 / No comments / action , adventure , constance forslund , eighties , fred ward , gene hackman , harold sylvester , patrick swayze , reb brown , robert stack , ted kotcheff , tim thomerson , vietnam , war , wings hauser

GENE HACKMAN COMMANDS TED KOTCHEFF'S 'UNCOMMON VALOR'

<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/AVvXsEg_iuyoT90Q0AFhlHAsFRV03yfRoakpJGgXee9oH3nt53BXcMAtNYYIuRlLR38ZH5JcwBj6BiwRadR17Ag-1hiV8_QYupzbggupDPF5FE7gvB15iQdFgELNbGBU_S394ljp6Pvcpzfp_oUJPLdzTPXLfQ9nfkm9i4l78mjyhARKOPH1ktZKilNXfyd2kJpd/s2046/Screen%20Shot%202025-04-17%20at%206.07.38%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="2046" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_iuyoT90Q0AFhlHAsFRV03yfRoakpJGgXee9oH3nt53BXcMAtNYYIuRlLR38ZH5JcwBj6BiwRadR17Ag-1hiV8_QYupzbggupDPF5FE7gvB15iQdFgELNbGBU_S394ljp6Pvcpzfp_oUJPLdzTPXLfQ9nfkm9i4l78mjyhARKOPH1ktZKilNXfyd2kJpd/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-04-17%20at%206.07.38%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Randall Tex Cobb & Kelly Junkerman in UNCOMMON VALOR Year: 1983 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Recently, three important people connected to 1983's UNCOMMON VALOR have died: the most significant being the legendary Gene Hackman, who stars as Colonel Jason Rhodes, gathering a group of Vietnam veterans who served with his captured son — training them to bring his boy back home a decade later... Then there's director Ted Kotcheff, who had already tackled a similar subject in FIRST BLOOD (also featuring a kind of lonesome French horn soundtrack albeit by different composers); and actor Wings Hauser, who hasn't a part here, and isn't credited as writer, but his original screenplay (formerly titled Youth in Asia) became what's now a somewhat forgotten, equally cult-and-mainstream post-war action/thriller...

action, adventure, constance forslund, eighties, fred ward, gene hackman, harold sylvester, patrick swayze, reb brown, robert stack, ted kotcheff, tim thomerson, vietnam, war, wings hauser

GENE HACKMAN COMMANDS TED KOTCHEFF'S 'UNCOMMON VALOR'

Randall Tex Cobb & Kelly Junkerman in UNCOMMON VALOR Year: 1983 Rating: **** Recently, three important people connected to 1983's UN...

WINGS HAUSER, GARY SWANSON & SEASON HUBLEY IN 'VICE SQUAD'

<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/AVvXsEhIxiFTfldnFY0zAlm3JFxtkey1oMCwIyXFtLu7C6iv6jBNDFkTOm3f5sx4z6THD68CD18ejRfxnJ3LZwQpgVCajffsiPu7a1lv81QaIYSo2l4jGkN1MTlgcWINMFZIvagbRXm46nuXyHkyxwW4zJlACAhN3A2QDNDIHWAjem07JBPvkFom54A0zu22H2iO/s1620/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="1620" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIxiFTfldnFY0zAlm3JFxtkey1oMCwIyXFtLu7C6iv6jBNDFkTOm3f5sx4z6THD68CD18ejRfxnJ3LZwQpgVCajffsiPu7a1lv81QaIYSo2l4jGkN1MTlgcWINMFZIvagbRXm46nuXyHkyxwW4zJlACAhN3A2QDNDIHWAjem07JBPvkFom54A0zu22H2iO/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wings Hauser in VICE SQUAD Year: 1982 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Director Gary Sherman's VICE SQUAD combines three genres: involving a revenge-driven psychopath body-count/horror as Wings Hauser's killer pimp Ramrod murders hookers leading to the one that ratted him out, alongside an edgy drama/expose on the seedy prostitution nightlife, and what kind of strange customers are put up with... The latter involving central character Season Hubley as a hooker with a heart of gold, and most importantly a young daughter, both who... after Hubley's talked into setting up friend Nina Blackwood's killer by character-actor cop Gary Swanson... becomes a vengeance-driven target that he has to protect...

action, beverly todd, cheryl smith, cop, eighties, exploitation, fred berry, gary sherman, gary swanson, lynda lei, nina blackwood, pepe serna, season hubley, wings hauser

WINGS HAUSER, GARY SWANSON & SEASON HUBLEY IN 'VICE SQUAD'

Wings Hauser in VICE SQUAD Year: 1982 Rating: **** Director Gary Sherman's VICE SQUAD combines three genres: involving a revenge-driven ...

NICK NOLTE IN 'WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN' WITH MICHAEL MORIARTY

<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/AVvXsEgmQY5-yrCpxKX-Vd1C3rU5Ms8szVfRzRmx-LQY3FDDLBdDsFwnVa4EaPpfOQpwek1mwpTgft1WrJjEBaHU3NXgYFNIk1O-OPASbm58yHTkMW4nWjN2Um58M2QNCM6aWCEArxl9f9H72OHE7BZTemwbHyXchZ3JBwgtQDL8n3Ud3hDpoQolHR7UuMtYSDE-/s2800/Screen%20Shot%202025-02-07%20at%2011.47.31%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1466" data-original-width="2800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmQY5-yrCpxKX-Vd1C3rU5Ms8szVfRzRmx-LQY3FDDLBdDsFwnVa4EaPpfOQpwek1mwpTgft1WrJjEBaHU3NXgYFNIk1O-OPASbm58yHTkMW4nWjN2Um58M2QNCM6aWCEArxl9f9H72OHE7BZTemwbHyXchZ3JBwgtQDL8n3Ud3hDpoQolHR7UuMtYSDE-/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-02-07%20at%2011.47.31%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nick Nolte in WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN Year: 1978 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>In the same year that the groundbreaking BOYS IN COMPANY C showed soldiers fighting in Vietnam, WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN (influenced by the previous years' <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/08/rollingthunder.html">ROLLING THUNDER</a>) centered on the desperately flawed American soldiers right afterwards...Beginning with a character quirky enough for his own movie, whose intro/setup has its own beginning, middle and end with the always-intriguingly-strange Michael Moriarty, returning to the war (with cameos by young non-famous Wings Hauser and Jonathan Banks) to find a buddy to do what the rest of the picture's about...

action, adventure, anthony zerbe, charles haid, jonathan banks, michael moriarty, nick nolte, ray sharkey, richard masur, seventies, thriller, tuesday weld, vietnam, wings hauser

NICK NOLTE IN 'WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN' WITH MICHAEL MORIARTY

Nick Nolte in WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN Year: 1978 Rating: *** In the same year that the groundbreaking BOYS IN COMPANY C showed soldiers fig...

RYAN O'NEAL & LAWRENCE TIERNEY IN 'TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE'

<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/AVvXsEg4-MkymSUOnE7IiqPRVjIge8Qjzh2xT6Tir4oQF54geRFNs99ZV-HuybZB28K91gIB0XaoulRLVWzset55qLO1c1lJfwAK_-s2Fga-L0owxHRXQq8s2e15jkCoqQL9ckq_IbScA-hFV077_vkDlrpj6UwWubEI-5xFhCAx4bSUq2UWbqmpkVp4GezSMA/s1846/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-04%20at%202.40.56%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1199" data-original-width="1846" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4-MkymSUOnE7IiqPRVjIge8Qjzh2xT6Tir4oQF54geRFNs99ZV-HuybZB28K91gIB0XaoulRLVWzset55qLO1c1lJfwAK_-s2Fga-L0owxHRXQq8s2e15jkCoqQL9ckq_IbScA-hFV077_vkDlrpj6UwWubEI-5xFhCAx4bSUq2UWbqmpkVp4GezSMA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-04%20at%202.40.56%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ryan O'Neal and Lawrence Tierney in TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE Year: 1987 Rates: **1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Ryan O’Neal’s infamous “Oh Man Oh God” moment, while awful and embarrassing, taken on its own accord... linked all over the Internet... within context of an equally bizarre vehicle, just sort of comes and goes, coinciding with a cheesy spinning camera-glide in this Neo Noir thriller with little thrills, tons of intentionally pulpy dialogue that Norman Mailer, who directed based on his novel turned screenplay, purposely borrows from the likes of Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane...Although there weren’t many cocaine addicts written about back in those dime novel days; at least not for an aimless anti-hero to be involved with without a second thought. Enter O’Neal’s low-rent ex-con writer, Tim Madden, literally counting the days with shaving cream on a mirror of his missing wife's beachfront mansion...

cannon, clarence williams III, debra sandlund, eighties, francis fisher, isabella rossellini, lawrence tierney, neo noir, norman mailer, ryan o'neal, wings hauser

RYAN O'NEAL & LAWRENCE TIERNEY IN 'TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE'

Ryan O'Neal and Lawrence Tierney in TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE Year: 1987 Rates: **1/2 Ryan O’Neal’s infamous “Oh Man Oh God” moment, w...

WILLIAM CONRAD PRESENTS 'FIRST TO FIGHT' WITH CHAD EVERETT

<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/AVvXsEju2lIuHvMK8MdJNWNnU17mt6G_IaItjKyDmtXvibfxexF0jqSNpH-yJedY_HVmQ_VB-47OnKuW9gh1nHVq5zYfnavQQsscwSlkoKsFS2Gb_Q3q_3eNLMpIoD8pgVdpoAqvGyYYsp_o6Std7Cagtf2M1VT_lZJCNjXHGerzps5EbRNOnEPxxDk1J4PLREqp/s1936/Screen%20Shot%202025-02-28%20at%2010.27.43%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1936" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju2lIuHvMK8MdJNWNnU17mt6G_IaItjKyDmtXvibfxexF0jqSNpH-yJedY_HVmQ_VB-47OnKuW9gh1nHVq5zYfnavQQsscwSlkoKsFS2Gb_Q3q_3eNLMpIoD8pgVdpoAqvGyYYsp_o6Std7Cagtf2M1VT_lZJCNjXHGerzps5EbRNOnEPxxDk1J4PLREqp/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-02-28%20at%2010.27.43%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chad Everett in FIRST TO FIGHT Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Starting out an old school hunkered-in-the-trenches World War II action flick with heroic Chad Everett holding off approaching Japanese soldiers in an off-river jungle setting, FIRST TO FIGHT... produced and narrated by William Conrad with direction by Christian Nyby... makes an abrupt shift into a budding Stateside romance...Progressively ignited between Everett's surviving and returning Sgt. Jack Connell and the lovely, classy and hard-to-get war bond touring chief Marilyn Devin; yet the best scenes have our true blue veteran competing with cocky cad Bobby Troup, who's not good enough to win this lady over...

action, bobby troup, chad everett, claude akins, dean jagger, gene hackman, james best, marilyn devin, norman alden, romance, warner archives, wings hauser, world war II

WILLIAM CONRAD PRESENTS 'FIRST TO FIGHT' WITH CHAD EVERETT

Chad Everett in FIRST TO FIGHT Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 Starting out an old school hunkered-in-the-trenches World War II action flick with ...

WINGS HAUSER & SEASON HUBLEY IN VICE SQUAD

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"You can run behind their truck, but you never, ever, ever run behind mine, you got that, Stubbs?"</td></tr>
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You've heard it before. "That person really made the movie." Or "really steals it." Well in the case of VICE SQUAD, Wings Hauser as a nightmarish, unbreakable, unstoppable, ultra-violent pimp with a raised truck and whose name, RAMROD, could have been an excellent alternative title as the desperate, edgy lunatic who truly owns the movie, outright, including the fact he sings the opening credit song, NEON SLIME, which could be yet another potentially awesome alternative...

cop, crime, eighties, exploitation, fred berry, gary swanson, season hubley, vice, wings hauser