DAVID CARRADINE AND ROBERT CARRADINE DRIVING 'CANNONBALL'

<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/AVvXsEgRAQfpmHFQHLEu0SXorm69coBMJj0UVjOwyRW6BP1F-iDa6VQJOxhx8tdP9ugKTitmQLQg1r8X5y1rSSjOYTKi3wuLEGksc6pQmGsRYYns3pN_uNgq1ztV0qRGOoLZg-Mjm8G-qM7xTZiU6xyql8k1aWVW72HOcJLQjC2-fPMmegnXb2aiEPn1Oe1ShdoC/s2474/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-24%20at%206.29.04%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1528" data-original-width="2474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRAQfpmHFQHLEu0SXorm69coBMJj0UVjOwyRW6BP1F-iDa6VQJOxhx8tdP9ugKTitmQLQg1r8X5y1rSSjOYTKi3wuLEGksc6pQmGsRYYns3pN_uNgq1ztV0qRGOoLZg-Mjm8G-qM7xTZiU6xyql8k1aWVW72HOcJLQjC2-fPMmegnXb2aiEPn1Oe1ShdoC/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-02-24%20at%206.29.04%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: CANNONBALL Year: 1976 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It would be as surprising if roughshod stuntman director Hal Needham made a sophisticated Shakespeare adaptation as classy/gentlemen Paul Bartel being one of the best high-octane car-race/chase auteurs in the grungy 1970's and, following the popular dystopian-future dark-comedy <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/08/DR2000.html">DEATH RACE 2000</a>, he made the first and least known action-flick based on the genuinely real and extremely illegal no-rules cross-country <i>Cannonball</i>...<br><br>Created and manned by Brock Peters, who only appeared in the famous 1981 Needham ensemble with superstar Burt Reynolds, making <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/burt-reynolds-in-hal-needhams.html">THE CANNONBALL RUN</a> the only legitimate showcase... </p><span></span>

belinda balaski, bill mckinney, david carradine, exploitation, garrit graham, hangout, mary woronov, paul bartel, race car, robert carradine, seventies, sylvester stallone, veronica hamel

DAVID CARRADINE AND ROBERT CARRADINE DRIVING 'CANNONBALL'

Title: CANNONBALL Year: 1976 Rating: **** It would be as surprising if roughshod stuntman director Hal Needham made a sophisticated Shakespe...

CHARLES BRONSON'S LAST CANNON 'KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS'

<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/AVvXsEjP_ueo47qC0tLC3nXtxNp_UFoPtS-V79vCCUZMsBoYMWad8kvA_KvJkq4wP9aqxiUhNuZPQUQQ2ul4aUKqZdjubYsQuM_r4g8ISlIx0zXbWKjRxWResSLYBU3heT0vGUXU_GO1neFKhaXWSv45dtGMya5dx-JSc67lSSTXt0scsx6aGbzCjFML9d_eJnZR/s1608/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-29%20at%202.32.07%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1014" data-original-width="1608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_ueo47qC0tLC3nXtxNp_UFoPtS-V79vCCUZMsBoYMWad8kvA_KvJkq4wP9aqxiUhNuZPQUQQ2ul4aUKqZdjubYsQuM_r4g8ISlIx0zXbWKjRxWResSLYBU3heT0vGUXU_GO1neFKhaXWSv45dtGMya5dx-JSc67lSSTXt0scsx6aGbzCjFML9d_eJnZR/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-29%20at%202.32.07%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The final Cannon production starring Charles Bronson (and director J. Lee Thompson) couldn't be more of an exploitation flick (surpassing even DEATH WISH 2), spending more time on the underage girls of a sleazy pimp than Bronson and detective partner Perry Lopez are trying to figure things out...<br><br>In KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS, initially/ironically involving a sex-obsessed Japanese father whose daughter (Kumiko Hayakawa) winds up one the youngest, most vulnerable victims of an underground sex-slave market...</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/AVvXsEg1slfyP935-EK7xsjbuXVlt3fPXG-CwooMAYmHTRTevvv9sOsGP0pKEkARIObu9ROvICIBtCHUxVfE9OeN7fQVTCqmDY1k6rmF8cyzR96TUBdInVKdiPLCx9EFF-DfUFFPQorUV5wfmI41GuqttEBGyw8kuPQfCv1gmwDKjoxdI60fsCw01629YefmcTPa/s1724/2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="1724" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1slfyP935-EK7xsjbuXVlt3fPXG-CwooMAYmHTRTevvv9sOsGP0pKEkARIObu9ROvICIBtCHUxVfE9OeN7fQVTCqmDY1k6rmF8cyzR96TUBdInVKdiPLCx9EFF-DfUFFPQorUV5wfmI41GuqttEBGyw8kuPQfCv1gmwDKjoxdI60fsCw01629YefmcTPa/s16000/2.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles Bronson in KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Opening with blonde starlet Nicole Eggert as the most experienced, the actual leading young-lady's Amy Hathaway, even blonder, cuter and who just so happens to be Bronson's daughter, on the verge of the neon-noir-inspired criminal web led by CROCODILE DUNDEE II villain Juan Fernández... <br><br>Perhaps one of the sleaziest villains in Bronson cinema... providing the usual gun-blasting DEATH WISH-style vengeance that happens far too late to matter: overall making KINJITE more glossy expose than edgy crime-thriller. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, amy hathaway, bill mckinney, cannon, charles bronson, eighties, juan fernandez, neo noir, peggy lipton, perry lopez, sy richardson

CHARLES BRONSON'S LAST CANNON 'KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS'

Charles Bronson in KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2 The final Cannon production starring Charles Bronson (and director J...

TED KOTCHEFF DIRECTS SYLVESTER STALLONE IN 'FIRST BLOOD'

<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/AVvXsEj4k6I5Ri_zC2G-ajOoG-XqdfqzYhdZ1P4sEjPPLoyUKINd2AqyXfMCbrfq_fWqPgTyPGkdHrYmaA9XgRTT0UjEWAovNGB0m5annKbvQpG-3uQqGi5KgEjCNq7mQ3sZjzXki-xrWecVizRrD4KHZr0eMovosl1GhtNzsmAZNq78Rsln5s5YuwT9WkYhW17L/s1940/Screen%20Shot%202025-04-16%20at%2010.35.41%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1110" data-original-width="1940" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4k6I5Ri_zC2G-ajOoG-XqdfqzYhdZ1P4sEjPPLoyUKINd2AqyXfMCbrfq_fWqPgTyPGkdHrYmaA9XgRTT0UjEWAovNGB0m5annKbvQpG-3uQqGi5KgEjCNq7mQ3sZjzXki-xrWecVizRrD4KHZr0eMovosl1GhtNzsmAZNq78Rsln5s5YuwT9WkYhW17L/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-04-16%20at%2010.35.41%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: FIRST BLOOD Year: 1982 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When rural sheriff Brian Dennehy drives ragged drifter Sylvester Stallone from one side of a one-mile town to the next, he mentions several times how <i>that long hair</i> wouldn't fit into such a peaceful community...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet it wouldn't take until the third film where Stallone's former green-beret/Vietnam-vet character would have the hair-length to matter... which is kind of a symbolic microcosm of how FIRST BLOOD differs from the now-legendary franchise, centering on an actual human being named John instead of an all-powerful warrior named RAMBO... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, bill mckinney, brian dennehy, chris mulkey, david caruso, eighties, franchise, jack starrett, michael talbott, richard crenna, sylvester stallone, vietnam

TED KOTCHEFF DIRECTS SYLVESTER STALLONE IN 'FIRST BLOOD'

Title: FIRST BLOOD Year: 1982 Rating: ****1/2 When rural sheriff Brian Dennehy drives ragged drifter Sylvester Stallone from one side of a o...

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...

CANVASING THE UNIQUE CAPER OF 'THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT'

<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/AVvXsEgQ6GkisxXEHkX9avasJnODPr7TRSNMl3end-uZs6IKG7kalnMWJMcVojIUTvsmN_OkRU3sawuaf3bB439Xl3VI0Sl6-_CXNBvjrTDjxMtw4jPDBZLVL7B2_iqAUlGn2Lb--uqWZtyqIVMiIv9w9rYravZfYpv4GWf-ddu6TLCptpraYfuem1v4s43ERA/s1122/36.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="1122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ6GkisxXEHkX9avasJnODPr7TRSNMl3end-uZs6IKG7kalnMWJMcVojIUTvsmN_OkRU3sawuaf3bB439Xl3VI0Sl6-_CXNBvjrTDjxMtw4jPDBZLVL7B2_iqAUlGn2Lb--uqWZtyqIVMiIv9w9rYravZfYpv4GWf-ddu6TLCptpraYfuem1v4s43ERA/s16000/36.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THUNDERBOLT & LIGHTFOOT Director: Michael Cimino Stars: Clint Eastwood Year: 1974 Score: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a quote in the 1974 cult action flick THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT about an experienced ex-bank robber played by Clint Eastwood teamed with a young freewheeling Jeff Bridges... <br> <br> Ironically "Stick with me, kid, you're gonna live forever" is young Jeff's line as Lightfoot to Clint's Thunderbolt since the<i> </i>enigmatic, offbeat youngster  speaks in almost all hackneyed adages...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

action, bill mckinney, catherine bach, chase, clint eastwood, geoffrey lewis, george kennedy, hangout, heist, jack dodson, jeff bridges, june fairchild, michael cimino, roy jenson

CANVASING THE UNIQUE CAPER OF 'THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT'

Title: THUNDERBOLT & LIGHTFOOT Director: Michael Cimino Stars: Clint Eastwood Year: 1974 Score: **** There's a quote in the 1974 cu...

BURT REYNOLDS & JON VOIGHT VENTURE THROUGH 'DELIVERANCE'

<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/AVvXsEgeqaQhQE-Y3gh8Wzx-77045UDvzqPnqme0bw1hEISMywJUHl98qbZmTEqmThABnG30q8fZf0SZxUBE_f5dSPmQOdNPkveAy_hepPbc-tF9AS1Ai2MfuksgW4uKTn1I5h36-i00Hmo-jxqYkS3DG9EC6yjZCcR-Cj3OOch3yLJMiTfZYEf9zH1cMLnH8w/s1839/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="933" data-original-width="1839" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeqaQhQE-Y3gh8Wzx-77045UDvzqPnqme0bw1hEISMywJUHl98qbZmTEqmThABnG30q8fZf0SZxUBE_f5dSPmQOdNPkveAy_hepPbc-tF9AS1Ai2MfuksgW4uKTn1I5h36-i00Hmo-jxqYkS3DG9EC6yjZCcR-Cj3OOch3yLJMiTfZYEf9zH1cMLnH8w/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in DELIVERANCE Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Going backwards, many fans of Burt Reynolds happened upon DELIVERANCE later on, and the biggest difference between that and even his better-than-car-chase movies is the ensemble of four characters who get almost equal story-time and importance to the plot...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A would-be vacationing adventure of businessmen taking to the white water rapids, led by a confident and gusty survivalist-type Reynolds as Lewis, good friend of polar opposite Jon Voight, the actual main character, who, as Ed, can hardly sling a bow-and-arrow while Burt leads one of the all-time great bow-and-arrow rescues...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, bill mckinney, burt reynolds, cult, john boorman, ned beatty, ronny cox, rural, seventies, suspense, thriller

BURT REYNOLDS & JON VOIGHT VENTURE THROUGH 'DELIVERANCE'

Burt Reynolds in DELIVERANCE Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 Going backwards, many fans of Burt Reynolds happened upon DELIVERANCE later on, and ...

WARREN BEATTY STALKED IN ALAN J. PAKULA'S 'THE PARALLAX VIEW'

<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/AVvXsEi4sm5h-GPlE0t_sfYFbrfVfYB-rLdO0ZklpZTFLcUHJOeLKzDLIlvqQ4pHgAI0vp2y-TLSdPRHukfjucTes9KgX5HCENBmpgsJ5ElkDg2txSiQDr1brTyAxvq4EflffLhGdIvkXHUrREuTgDgKST-g1sykbJm7oAKA1YLqSWFTieO3QnbOAIsa86m7Fg/s1207/61+NMp8RTuL._SL1500_.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="1207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4sm5h-GPlE0t_sfYFbrfVfYB-rLdO0ZklpZTFLcUHJOeLKzDLIlvqQ4pHgAI0vp2y-TLSdPRHukfjucTes9KgX5HCENBmpgsJ5ElkDg2txSiQDr1brTyAxvq4EflffLhGdIvkXHUrREuTgDgKST-g1sykbJm7oAKA1YLqSWFTieO3QnbOAIsa86m7Fg/s16000/61+NMp8RTuL._SL1500_.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Warren Beatty in THE PARALLAX VIEW Year: 1974 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Critically beloved TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD director Alan J. Pakula's political thriller before ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN titled THE PARALLAX VIEW opens with a doomed would-be senator taking Seattle's Sky Needle elevator to what will become his final speech... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A candidate described as being too independent for his own good, here's a political thriller that attempts pleasing both sides of the aisle, which is surely and sadly a thing of the past...  <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></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/AVvXsEja8JK4pmvIBevaMOB2nQsOnFG3lMRO2SbXBu2TTTdJ5Dh6cEQzbUJimrqCZDrIVR1QQDyDTqtqbQJ6aMTbIW9dsARyf3EQbcE98_Vr_S3GBnDyWhP7ANNback0PxQ7_CMvud2_HVLHl0Ms4IrcqOKD4d7t-JdyewiSeDagaTiCLMHvPl4-a9q9VIibSQ/s1698/AVvXsEg4-5_l3x_nncUpbKVYyBFZseB59cknSq49KgzqF4fz0Y9ZiZoQkNROt7u1cjOF8t3hOrA-UgjpPbb-TbLcLNEPhkPfFnG4pAl9H5YZhuqSvmqWrFfXeIfHxNqzJ5TRPaBcrPrJeYrIxHMX4V7HzE-fHnP9nTTxcrkl9hG3-cI4ZRn0MVWvUqS7AsqLvQ=s16000%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; 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veteran baddie Kelly Thordsen as a crooked small town sheriff; William Daniels as this film's possible Deep Throat... </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/a/AVvXsEj880nxDVXc5x7b_rvV_hWItcqLl12wchhsgsE0ScrGiYQfALLq35EH1A1k-1XX666V3dcfTkmM3qu0pGNVZ8dX08h9cPFPGxz-NQcbLexKSwHxTbAlylQ2q-rE26WJ2xJkuzHYt4RbzT8h9bkNqVznY6ueV9r3jI9_J-tnRPmWEPpQhwnoY3gsG_LcRw=s2298" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="855" data-original-width="2298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj880nxDVXc5x7b_rvV_hWItcqLl12wchhsgsE0ScrGiYQfALLq35EH1A1k-1XX666V3dcfTkmM3qu0pGNVZ8dX08h9cPFPGxz-NQcbLexKSwHxTbAlylQ2q-rE26WJ2xJkuzHYt4RbzT8h9bkNqVznY6ueV9r3jI9_J-tnRPmWEPpQhwnoY3gsG_LcRw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From the famously weird montage in THE PARALLAX VIEW</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>And last but not least, a shady Walter McGinn (whose final role would be Al Pacino's brother in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/06/BDeerfield.html">JOHNNY DEERFIELD</a>), introducing Beatty into the PARALLAX Corporation... </p><p></p><p></p><p>Along with a bizarre montage ranging from The Great Depression to Hitler to concentration camps whilst ironically shifting back and forth to happy hippies... this is meant for hypnotic indoctrination, a kind of icebreaker for what's basically a School for Assassins... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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alan j. pakula, bill mckinney, earl hindman, hume cronyn, jo ann harris, kelly thordsen, paula prentiss, political, seventies, thriller, walter mcginn, warren beatty, william daniels

WARREN BEATTY STALKED IN ALAN J. PAKULA'S 'THE PARALLAX VIEW'

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CHEERS TO CLINT EASTWOOD & SONDRA LOCKE IN 'BRONCO BILLY'

<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/AVvXsEj6FCJ9j7pDRIluoZoMmzWRcwUDq4440IE8vXMJ131Zymqtac10GxLEedB_hdl-2DdKIUFYQAGWxrVy_B5JBnl7J_sPe1M4W7ZDuLXMQr7bSXiJ3obVpUlsMOxCNERx4uiSdZznY4gz84Wx/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-01-13+at+4.15.58+PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6FCJ9j7pDRIluoZoMmzWRcwUDq4440IE8vXMJ131Zymqtac10GxLEedB_hdl-2DdKIUFYQAGWxrVy_B5JBnl7J_sPe1M4W7ZDuLXMQr7bSXiJ3obVpUlsMOxCNERx4uiSdZznY4gz84Wx/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-01-13+at+4.15.58+PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sam Bottoms, Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood and Bill McKinney in BRONCO BILLY Year: 1980</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> At one time this was Clint Eastwood's favorite movie directed and starring, Clint Eastwood. Not sure if that's changed from when the statement was originally stated by the man who has directed plenty... But for Cult Film Freak it holds up as completely logical and legit, still...<br>

adventure, bill mckinney, clint eastwood, eighties, geoffrey lewis, juliette lewis, mental ward, sam bottoms, scatman crothers, sondra locke, tessa richarde, walter barnes

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