ROBERT BLAKE CRASHING 'CORKY' WITH CHARLOTTE RAMPLING

<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/AVvXsEj7lgxk0T-1tTzi2tHTxWCNhvGgovy6-orNwAq4L5oB2hr8M9NWtJ6MkZUsX_dRqB_EMcPtMm5-VjIQFifs0G7-SEROyV-BEZmbwqj_CALmH9no5ZSc0oIoM4GmdDFwe_QaUc_VitrSp5RnpNN-7jVauAJlxtLeUNNP1UtdmHfIff0Ln4XEr-6y4j-bxuB0/s1556/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-06%20at%204.35.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="1556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7lgxk0T-1tTzi2tHTxWCNhvGgovy6-orNwAq4L5oB2hr8M9NWtJ6MkZUsX_dRqB_EMcPtMm5-VjIQFifs0G7-SEROyV-BEZmbwqj_CALmH9no5ZSc0oIoM4GmdDFwe_QaUc_VitrSp5RnpNN-7jVauAJlxtLeUNNP1UtdmHfIff0Ln4XEr-6y4j-bxuB0/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-06%20at%204.35.40%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Blake in CORKY Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>An early 1970's hybrid of small-town-dragster TWO LANE BLACKTOP, centering on two young motorheads rolling in a souped-up hot rod, and the exposition-through-flashback IN COLD BLOOD: as CORKY also stars Robert Blake, here as a spitfire Southerner yearning to become a stock car driving champion, before eventually getting lethal... <br><br>Which occurs in the last ten minutes, feeling more like the beginning of the final act instead of the entire movie's violent conclusion in what's an otherwise creatively-shot, open road exploitation where an intense and free-wheeling, strangely optimistic yet equally brooding Blake is surrounded by some topnotch actors...</p><p><span></span></p>

ben johnson, charlotte rampling, christopher connelly, exploitation, john gruber, laurence luckinbill, pamela payton-wright, patrick o'neal, race car, road movie, robert blake, seventies

ROBERT BLAKE CRASHING 'CORKY' WITH CHARLOTTE RAMPLING

Robert Blake in CORKY Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 An early 1970's hybrid of small-town-dragster TWO LANE BLACKTOP, centering on two young ...

DANE CLARK WITH BEN JOHNSON & PETER GRAVES 'FORT DEFIANCE'

<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/AVvXsEjbgsHzGZdCEgKklq8ykcr5b4MfGq4MU-tQsuCZEKPsz5O3eaWahHvcNWKmtEZP8UdZIlcN5NmDzmNwSM9xk5hnqBkyHjvZ37GIBpbeSfsSX_tJzANs9q4HH_a0n_WoLj5lVu42K2zl6MrebOK59KPtt6RKllBhj-rtyDsedi-sXtuVm1LYWyrOmb-TvIue/s1968/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-22%20at%208.44.58%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1110" data-original-width="1968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbgsHzGZdCEgKklq8ykcr5b4MfGq4MU-tQsuCZEKPsz5O3eaWahHvcNWKmtEZP8UdZIlcN5NmDzmNwSM9xk5hnqBkyHjvZ37GIBpbeSfsSX_tJzANs9q4HH_a0n_WoLj5lVu42K2zl6MrebOK59KPtt6RKllBhj-rtyDsedi-sXtuVm1LYWyrOmb-TvIue/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-22%20at%208.44.58%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dane Clark in FORT DEFIANCE Year: 1951 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For a fitfully simple b-western, FORT DEFIANCE has the most complicated case of post Civil War revenge, twofold: first there's Ben Johnson, who becomes a ranch-hand working for blind, extremely trustworthy Peter Graves, and secretly wants to kill Peter's older brother for backing out of one of the last battles... and then an entire posse wants both brothers dead... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Enter first-billed Dan Clark, extremely anticipated through expository dialogue, thirty-five minutes in, as his brother and new best friend are cornered by Indians in a cornering canyon, led by legendary faker Iron Eyes Cody...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, ben johnson, dane clark, fifties, peter graves, tracey roberts, western

DANE CLARK WITH BEN JOHNSON & PETER GRAVES 'FORT DEFIANCE'

Dane Clark in FORT DEFIANCE Year: 1951 Rates: ***1/2 For a fitfully simple b-western, FORT DEFIANCE has the most complicated case of post Ci...

STEVE MCQUEEN LITERALLY STEALS SAM PECKINPAH'S 'THE GETAWAY'

<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><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/AVvXsEgy4b6xpueFjRRCYKM4hojOyL15gAnXgfdmA5WGl-ujZ-Ylwaa9rVFnjGFuiMBw1KCDQein_KffAFx3y801tWF0kl7r9Kcjcv6CtDz_TdfQ6-_UstwLNxQ8vuNgchMkiiF177gEsE9vU8VflrCH-OaULQBMtNwmNGsekcJoShFfg_yiGpLLEoi0IYC2cr35/s1189/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-02%20at%204.13.12%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="1189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy4b6xpueFjRRCYKM4hojOyL15gAnXgfdmA5WGl-ujZ-Ylwaa9rVFnjGFuiMBw1KCDQein_KffAFx3y801tWF0kl7r9Kcjcv6CtDz_TdfQ6-_UstwLNxQ8vuNgchMkiiF177gEsE9vU8VflrCH-OaULQBMtNwmNGsekcJoShFfg_yiGpLLEoi0IYC2cr35/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-02%20at%204.13.12%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE GETAWAY Year: 1972 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The machine-pounding prologue/montage of Sam Peckinpah's THE GETAWAY embodies caged hopelessness of prison life better than most <i>entire</i>ly-<i>set-in</i>-<i>prison</i> prison flicks... plus it's the only sequence centered solely on Steve McQueen as career criminal Doc McCoy sans the uninspired acting of ingenue/partner Ali MacGraw...</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></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>During a pivotal meeting — tempted by Texas millionaire Ben Johnson after having sex to get Doc paroled and then tortured with envy — she has a vacant expression as opposed to McQueen's sharpened countenance... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, al bright, al lettieri, ali macgraw, ben johnson, bo hopkins, crime, exploitation, heist, modern western, post-heist, road movie, sally struthers, sam peckinpah, steve mcqueen

STEVE MCQUEEN LITERALLY STEALS SAM PECKINPAH'S 'THE GETAWAY'

Title: THE GETAWAY Year: 1972 Rating: **** The machine-pounding prologue/montage of Sam Peckinpah's THE GETAWAY embodies caged hopelessn...

CHARLES BRONSON WITH JILL IRELAND IN 'BREAKHEART PASS'

<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/AVvXsEj47WLsuSa_j2WwCGqbfwrwJvmr1rz_7F2l_-hn_hQpqxYsgxA-2WuPcihuhwoY4CE7HN5VPq-GhyEo5RCwwBo-u5Zpxj7ccUmrvUMzyevDoB_grsEhb9jFmTdQ-j0HVpHPza8KyT43ugFiFXYxdUDi40dsKMpP582Ve4JYKiq250Bh4WktLQVV7fV3-Ybn/s1256/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-08%20at%208.22.21%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="586" data-original-width="1256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj47WLsuSa_j2WwCGqbfwrwJvmr1rz_7F2l_-hn_hQpqxYsgxA-2WuPcihuhwoY4CE7HN5VPq-GhyEo5RCwwBo-u5Zpxj7ccUmrvUMzyevDoB_grsEhb9jFmTdQ-j0HVpHPza8KyT43ugFiFXYxdUDi40dsKMpP582Ve4JYKiq250Bh4WktLQVV7fV3-Ybn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-08%20at%208.22.21%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in BREAKHEART PASS Year: 1975 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>British actress Jill Ireland sporadically appearing in husband Charles Bronson's films was really a matter of convenience, providing the family a kind of busman's holiday that was great for them, but not always the audience since her overacting often clashed with the comparably slow-burn cadence of vehicles like THE MECHANIC or HARD TIMES: the latter making an enemy out of writer/director Walter Hill, shooting as few scenes with Ireland as possible, so he never worked with a perturbed Bronson again...</p><p></p><p>But in the case of (the same years') BREAKOUT director Tom Gries's Mystery/Western BREAKHEART PASS, Jill Ireland fit perfectly since her character... the daughter of a post-Civil War Northern General... is fitfully classy and sophisticated, making one particular opposites-attract scene really spark while helping Bronson's supposedly captured-outlaw Deakin, tied uncomfortably inside an otherwise fancy train car and... although he's the central lead, PASS is mainly an ensemble, equally balancing the other characters, all suspects...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

ben johnson, bill mckinney, charles bronson, ed lauter, jill ireland, mystery, rayford barnes, richard crenna, sally kirkland, thriller, tom gries, western

CHARLES BRONSON WITH JILL IRELAND IN 'BREAKHEART PASS'

Charles Bronson in BREAKHEART PASS Year: 1975 Rating: ****1/2 British actress Jill Ireland sporadically appearing in husband Charles Bronson...

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE ROBERT ALDRICH NEO NOIR 'HUSTLE'

<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/AVvXsEiTuIA-FWcxw2RqgumYpd6hoEeJHdRn_J1vH0a0-_EIPkGe88KqPqd67STusHlQFM2IyKM69_o6otytun718CXRh50UR0h0qYjJQYIh-scYfG1efH8ZdfhTN3RJLTK2L6DNYUpxic4uNdpcEVv4qArPVDlcVUd6LyH_9lElupyKNVYYoceubPCHl67qvg/s2010/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-03%20at%2011.22.19%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="2010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTuIA-FWcxw2RqgumYpd6hoEeJHdRn_J1vH0a0-_EIPkGe88KqPqd67STusHlQFM2IyKM69_o6otytun718CXRh50UR0h0qYjJQYIh-scYfG1efH8ZdfhTN3RJLTK2L6DNYUpxic4uNdpcEVv4qArPVDlcVUd6LyH_9lElupyKNVYYoceubPCHl67qvg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-03%20at%2011.22.19%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds and Paul Winfield in HUSTLE Year: 1975 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of those “stick with it” kind of movies, after the success of the universally entertaining THE LONGEST YARD, director Robert Aldrich reunites with Burt Reynolds in a noirish cop melodrama that takes some time to get going...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Reynolds is Phil Gaines, a bitter, world-weary detective (with a monotone seriousness reminiscent of his detective TV-series DAN AUGUST) who, living with a high priced prostitute, doesn’t represent the typical law and order existence. After the dead body of a drugged young girl turns up on the beach, Gaines and his partner, Paul Winfield’s Belgrave, write it off as suicide...</p><span></span>

ben johnson, burt reynolds, catherine bach, catherine deneuve, cop, crime, eddie albert, ernest borgnine, neo noir, paul winfield, robert aldrich, seventies

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE ROBERT ALDRICH NEO NOIR 'HUSTLE'

Burt Reynolds and Paul Winfield in HUSTLE Year: 1975 Rating: *** One of those “stick with it” kind of movies, after the success of the univ...

STEVE MCQUEEN'S FINAL LIFETIME BOUNTY FOR 'THE HUNTER'

<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><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/AVvXsEjuNhi-hHviAzAGOyowmfxxPf0MDJN0wjymOPm69REll-yYLMW3anmVEQo87gHf6q2Kq9VSiqNhexavHAOycVL8_P2x2WHnydOoeFL_WEcJS-w0Jp0HGS_H9PHT9ITDo-JDhyphenhyphenlX8wJFzjblLMJSrF1bR0hZqF6UCsPR8LA-mC5Gq49QffuyABHtFClYErpW/s1432/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-03%20at%203.37.25%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="1432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuNhi-hHviAzAGOyowmfxxPf0MDJN0wjymOPm69REll-yYLMW3anmVEQo87gHf6q2Kq9VSiqNhexavHAOycVL8_P2x2WHnydOoeFL_WEcJS-w0Jp0HGS_H9PHT9ITDo-JDhyphenhyphenlX8wJFzjblLMJSrF1bR0hZqF6UCsPR8LA-mC5Gq49QffuyABHtFClYErpW/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-03%20at%203.37.25%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE HUNTER Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Steve McQueen began his career as a bounty hunter on TV's WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE and ended as one on the big screen, twice: TOM HORN was also a <i>rebounder</i> tale, and actually resembled a theatrical motion picture while THE HUNTER looks and plays-out like a made-for-television movie... </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></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>But a pretty good one as McQueen's real life Ralph 'Papa' Thorson seeks various bond-skippers, each more difficult than the next: In one case the violent powerhouse nephew of McQueen's GETAWAY foe Ben Johnson; and later a literally explosive tractor vs Trans Am cornfield chase... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, ben johnson, biopic, bounty hunter, cop, crime, eighties, eli wallach, kathryn harrold, lavar burton, steve mcqueen, tracey walter, tribute

STEVE MCQUEEN'S FINAL LIFETIME BOUNTY FOR 'THE HUNTER'

Title: THE HUNTER Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2 Steve McQueen began his career as a bounty hunter on TV's WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE and ended as...

MARLON BRANDO IN HIS BROODING WESTERN 'ONE-EYED JACKS'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixH2M1klt7RxWbsq4CaOlBYFl9xysDxzjRqxfunRIXEZmjzLLxxPNN19y29nxWxZS1OPV00NOJ3-BnpJDRlmz5OB1ikPWRZwkCLp9k8oVh2i-7ZKs9RSTK37PibcUi72uJeSmf94JZu5mv/s1600/69870789_775810796181432_3529528661277409280_n.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="503" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixH2M1klt7RxWbsq4CaOlBYFl9xysDxzjRqxfunRIXEZmjzLLxxPNN19y29nxWxZS1OPV00NOJ3-BnpJDRlmz5OB1ikPWRZwkCLp9k8oVh2i-7ZKs9RSTK37PibcUi72uJeSmf94JZu5mv/s400/69870789_775810796181432_3529528661277409280_n.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marlon Brando aims at Timothy Carey in ONE-EYED JACKS</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> There's an obscure, now forgotten cult of Marlon Brando fans, or Western fans, or both, who found a copy of ONE-EYED JACKS in any drugstore's bargain basement (actually two copies with different covers); and before the incredibly remastered Criterion Blu Ray, we lived on this overlong mess of a wonderfully-flawed epic that's only problem was being an epic in the first place...<br> <br> And anyone who believes there's a five-hour version that director/star Marlon Brando intended for a theatrical audience, must be crazy. Not even a David Lean historical drama is three-hours for a Western with a twenty minute revenge plot to actually take three hours longer. But all forms of creating art, from music to novels to film, start out as proverbial blocks sculpted down to an actual framework that works for an intended audience, and people seem to want that rumored big blocky mass instead of this two-hour plus tale that, although flawed, has its own slowburn precision and sporadic genius within...<br>

adventure, ben johnson, cult, elijah cook jr., karl malden, larry duran, marlon brando, miriam colon, sam gilman, sixties, slim pickens, timothy carey, western

MARLON BRANDO IN HIS BROODING WESTERN 'ONE-EYED JACKS'

Marlon Brando aims at Timothy Carey in ONE-EYED JACKS There's an obscure, now forgotten cult of Marlon Brando fans, or Western fans,...

GENE HACKMAN RIDES IN 'BITE THE BULLET' WITH JAMES COBURN

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWU9XbmqOsvkx5hkDOZIsqLS6lLx9RM_8-dJkDWSJr3htURJt5QIwVOzF1rzk1bMmhS0ffaS7jhTUTjvAZIxlOoi7avktbcJY6mAdGGSoMLzJNGiS4ursZedXjjWzbW65a9nHbu8sF32Xc/s1600/4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="755" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWU9XbmqOsvkx5hkDOZIsqLS6lLx9RM_8-dJkDWSJr3htURJt5QIwVOzF1rzk1bMmhS0ffaS7jhTUTjvAZIxlOoi7avktbcJY6mAdGGSoMLzJNGiS4ursZedXjjWzbW65a9nHbu8sF32Xc/s400/4.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>James Coburn in BITE THE BULLET Year: 1975</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> A homesteader's chopping wood when James Coburn rides up and, after asking several questions without a response, tells the man he doesn't know nothin', for which Wood Chopper replies: "I ain't the one who's lost." And snappy dialogue is the best thing going, especially with Coburn's scene-stealing character, at one point saying to young and obnoxious Jan-Michael Vincent, more antagonistic than he'd ever been before or after: "I want you to tell me the story of your life: Just skip everything up till the last fifteen minutes."<br> <br> BITE THE BULLET is a Western action/adventure about a horse race more character-driven than horse-driven, and that's good and bad since the characters are played by wonderful actors who share a few wonderful moments, but some are borderline cliché: Like pacifist Gene Hackman as an ex Rough Rider who may have been the founder of PETA while Candace Bergen is a modern feminist in chaps, and would have been more realistic if played by tougher-looking "hooker" Sally Kirkland, who'd sell her body the same year in another Western, BREAKHEART PASS: both featuring a pivotal train and veteran actor Ben Johnson, here an old-timer with a predictable death scene...<br>

action, adventure, ben johnson, candace bergen, ensemble, gene hackman, james coburn, jan-michael vincent, richard brooks, sally kirkland, seventies, western

GENE HACKMAN RIDES IN 'BITE THE BULLET' WITH JAMES COBURN

James Coburn in BITE THE BULLET Year: 1975 A homesteader's chopping wood when James Coburn rides up and, after asking several questi...

DIRK BENEDICT & LINDA BLAIR IN RUCKUS

<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/AVvXsEhaZ6m1tEroYRpFAVtE0Sb21y-wYD13I7R_fex7UP_sBEK-BEU1bMLVuJVQZTE5yRwACH2J_gS-zEcbPzcRqefz6wN_N1rdoiTS6eBPsi9FacThhG5N52d2eS4NFMwfn_aj54divqmK1b0/s1600/MV5BMTIyMTg0Njk5Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzg3OTMyMQ@@._V1_SY317_CR9,0,214,317_AL_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaZ6m1tEroYRpFAVtE0Sb21y-wYD13I7R_fex7UP_sBEK-BEU1bMLVuJVQZTE5yRwACH2J_gS-zEcbPzcRqefz6wN_N1rdoiTS6eBPsi9FacThhG5N52d2eS4NFMwfn_aj54divqmK1b0/s1600/MV5BMTIyMTg0Njk5Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzg3OTMyMQ@@._V1_SY317_CR9,0,214,317_AL_.jpg" width="224" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1981</td></tr> </tbody></table> A troubled Vietnam Vet, hassled in a small town, escapes on a dirt bike into the countryside and… Does this sound familiar?<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC3asIJcKtQLHuejJzsdcP1_SEyavGpqUqrdETSm0ljhBfuiVQMYcwRwWYYStVzTpOgDXM6zWI0EOXLSXzU8jorDqTMixm90mf2y0RXYLoMNj1EEazJxbeXb2bIiBpZ7wSeQtp2vFyXKtU/s1600/22728821_386089951820187_5215259890563258898_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="649" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC3asIJcKtQLHuejJzsdcP1_SEyavGpqUqrdETSm0ljhBfuiVQMYcwRwWYYStVzTpOgDXM6zWI0EOXLSXzU8jorDqTMixm90mf2y0RXYLoMNj1EEazJxbeXb2bIiBpZ7wSeQtp2vFyXKtU/s400/22728821_386089951820187_5215259890563258898_n.jpg" width="270" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rare DVD... signed by Linda Blair</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> Well before FIRST BLOOD came RUCKUS starring BATTLESTAR GALACTICA maverick Dirk Benedict as Kyle Hanson, whose scruffy disposition doesn’t make him very popular in dusty old small town: Wild-eyed like a predator in headlights, Kyle has a few creative tricks up his sleeve to thwart the hillbillies on his tail. Linda Blair is the Sheriff’s daughter who, with a missing husband in Vietnam, gives Kyle refuge: here’s where, surrounded in a big house in the middle of nowhere, the real trouble begins.<br /> <br /> <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/AVvXsEhkH4D_7nGb6mX7sttpOen5INOsPpaoGgswqvulmGo9ZhgLNVUaqr3jYDBnh7QftgLRGOV1XwDjUMkwj1abIBDb8QQd4zu3hMXLjT9fiac82Decj77Ga0LTreGkYEPfTuusrL17ER4Fuus6/s1600/ruckus_menul.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="98" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkH4D_7nGb6mX7sttpOen5INOsPpaoGgswqvulmGo9ZhgLNVUaqr3jYDBnh7QftgLRGOV1XwDjUMkwj1abIBDb8QQd4zu3hMXLjT9fiac82Decj77Ga0LTreGkYEPfTuusrL17ER4Fuus6/s200/ruckus_menul.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MovieSCORE: ***1/2</td></tr> </tbody></table> Action-packed from beginning to end, RUCKUS lacks the charge of the iconic predecessor, feeling more like a slightly edgy DUKES OF HAZZARD episode – and that’s a good thing. Dealing with post-war stress never gets heavy-handed, and the love story with Blair doesn't slow the pace. Although this came out before FIRST BLOOD, and shares the same plot and other characteristics including our hero leaping from a high area to escape impending foes, the David Morrell novel had been floating around Hollywood since the early seventies.<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDyfCqN26XBpAkQz2DPWeg8WA-K3K_2RCV_Kyy4UJiKi_171gbZGeoxMdTP-vcmOGBW0o7KMD5c-AacWvqT4iiBq9Ux2I1G1vlwxvGfV1IJP9flWR3SXggheFHQT-y1RnBs7soJ-pPgYdb/s1600/22552424_386089511820231_6699768453929749829_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="933" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDyfCqN26XBpAkQz2DPWeg8WA-K3K_2RCV_Kyy4UJiKi_171gbZGeoxMdTP-vcmOGBW0o7KMD5c-AacWvqT4iiBq9Ux2I1G1vlwxvGfV1IJP9flWR3SXggheFHQT-y1RnBs7soJ-pPgYdb/s1600/22552424_386089511820231_6699768453929749829_n.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linda Blair is the Sheriff's (Ben Johnson's) daughter in RUCKUS</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYdABGLakh792d3ZnnsPjtA88DVgGuzSvt_somYlhMq-bzQPkpPIFxJE4hBnm5OUfGGEo3S6A6p6sOkf3eOZjTP4Gfw8XktLDgyt6lenYBdezxjJlu6GNbJ2SrtRyNRSBnBNNwymxQF18N/s1600/b0QnjbWpLuXnlbFo4ONYnDXGDDF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYdABGLakh792d3ZnnsPjtA88DVgGuzSvt_somYlhMq-bzQPkpPIFxJE4hBnm5OUfGGEo3S6A6p6sOkf3eOZjTP4Gfw8XktLDgyt6lenYBdezxjJlu6GNbJ2SrtRyNRSBnBNNwymxQF18N/s1600/b0QnjbWpLuXnlbFo4ONYnDXGDDF.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dirk Benedict causes a rampaging RUCKUS</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjsXnFA9y688Fojccyo4XXUFT06PdXg2VfcligsPS6vYJ_aoSC4T-kaVVxxtuFPf0BSdHwVCdbCPD_7UMAnrWy3HI52-GEqDdRJwd8UGmfNYXz1Hf9MvHCsYTpvF1pv8oT-NRsJoGzvXC3/s1600/2455589,KGA8kuoMlRTexsKB8MiJpZYSkXPJlDG_aSjZB2NyY5et5nv32EGTV6zGRHbiSj4J6iXr2vhUzGnCwmhp5HRNsQ==.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjsXnFA9y688Fojccyo4XXUFT06PdXg2VfcligsPS6vYJ_aoSC4T-kaVVxxtuFPf0BSdHwVCdbCPD_7UMAnrWy3HI52-GEqDdRJwd8UGmfNYXz1Hf9MvHCsYTpvF1pv8oT-NRsJoGzvXC3/s1600/2455589,KGA8kuoMlRTexsKB8MiJpZYSkXPJlDG_aSjZB2NyY5et5nv32EGTV6zGRHbiSj4J6iXr2vhUzGnCwmhp5HRNsQ==.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"If you don't back off, I'll do something to make your head spin!"</td></tr> </tbody></table>

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DIRK BENEDICT & LINDA BLAIR IN RUCKUS

1981 A troubled Vietnam Vet, hassled in a small town, escapes on a dirt bike into the countryside and… Does this sound familiar? Rar...