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Written by James M. Tate / 11/02/2024 / No comments / action , adventure , blaxploitation , espionage , frank finlay , frank mcrea , john guillermin , neda arneric , richard roundtree , seventies , shaft , vonetta mcgee

JOHN GUILLERMIN DIRECTS RICHARD ROUNDTREE 'SHAFT IN AFRICA'

<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/AVvXsEjlHJRJE-A1RbYZbYI8FLde9fduyVRHbxaxDNS0sVTvbFZQ82i2WksQrhoTRKtNBL_ZWbYxcVsO8YarNJ1I9QCKxAgXIrfAyIFIWuajYPGCFMKk_oE1yb7xkizA19iwt0dYKzbvokFkmqZVvrorgj4fxSyseC-1T7LZzXQfNEQXiwdnKLwA4T6EcXoAl54H/s1294/Screen%20Shot%202025-02-02%20at%208.57.43%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="1294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlHJRJE-A1RbYZbYI8FLde9fduyVRHbxaxDNS0sVTvbFZQ82i2WksQrhoTRKtNBL_ZWbYxcVsO8YarNJ1I9QCKxAgXIrfAyIFIWuajYPGCFMKk_oE1yb7xkizA19iwt0dYKzbvokFkmqZVvrorgj4fxSyseC-1T7LZzXQfNEQXiwdnKLwA4T6EcXoAl54H/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-02-02%20at%208.57.43%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard Roundtree from SHAFT IN AFRICA Year: 1973 Rates: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Director John Guillermin's SHAFT IN AFRICA is such a deliberate espionage/spy flick, at one point the title character... who originated on paper before being adapted into one of the first blaxploitation heroes... is told to (after he actually references James Bond) burn his mission after reading...To pose as an African in Africa to be taken into a European slave-trade, which sounds more complicated than it really is... as this final SHAFT sequel's basically one handed-off desert-traipsing adventure sequence after another...

action, adventure, blaxploitation, espionage, frank finlay, frank mcrea, john guillermin, neda arneric, richard roundtree, seventies, shaft, vonetta mcgee

JOHN GUILLERMIN DIRECTS RICHARD ROUNDTREE 'SHAFT IN AFRICA'

Richard Roundtree from SHAFT IN AFRICA Year: 1973 Rates: ***1/2 Director John Guillermin's SHAFT IN AFRICA is such a deliberate espionag...

JOHN MILIUS DIRECTS 'RED DAWN' STARRING PATRICK SWAYZE

<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/AVvXsEhiOEEf9-VoH8pGxBqdBaSTog_W0gLDEJd-RPKhwqRhOnq3fmIcLpjobTn1W56UZMu0QR3Y2SYFqB_d4NTVBlG5jYFMeWjLKV8e3RRWW0mTP7fRteyMeMsCxjjx5aPdyoxhZFIOhSl9dH0CmkC7kipwJzJzuX5w0MWUQUcNrNLnX5iHOJEWwDETS2WIZjxG/s2506/366355594_1784408195321682_5276256121142775162_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1190" data-original-width="2506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOEEf9-VoH8pGxBqdBaSTog_W0gLDEJd-RPKhwqRhOnq3fmIcLpjobTn1W56UZMu0QR3Y2SYFqB_d4NTVBlG5jYFMeWjLKV8e3RRWW0mTP7fRteyMeMsCxjjx5aPdyoxhZFIOhSl9dH0CmkC7kipwJzJzuX5w0MWUQUcNrNLnX5iHOJEWwDETS2WIZjxG/s16000/366355594_1784408195321682_5276256121142775162_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: RED DAWN Year: 1984 Director: John Milius Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>By the time Powers Booth's Air Force Lt. Col. Andy Tanner is found near his crashed jet fighter plane, and then begins helping a band of young rebels fighting against an insanely unanticipated World War III, it seems like John Milius is finally directing the film he wanted to make all along... Which is basically an old-fashion war picture, in this case beginning with a high school's perspective of being attacking by commandos, destroying and ultimately taking over the connected rural small town...

action, adventure, body count, charlie sheen, frank mcrea, harry dean stanton, jennifer grey, johh milius, lea thompson, powers booth, war, william smith

JOHN MILIUS DIRECTS 'RED DAWN' STARRING PATRICK SWAYZE

Title: RED DAWN Year: 1984 Director: John Milius Rating: ***1/2 By the time Powers Booth's Air Force Lt. Col. Andy Tanner is found near ...

SYLVESTER STALLONE & TOM SIZEMORE IN JOHN FLYNN'S 'LOCK UP'

<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/AVvXsEiLLf6HAWB7twK90ef_1caFRFiIoywGYDzO8LkyiIk2VeEhj0c-3iobwdcm2dEkK1NaAgPJbglD3pj8adtUQurzf7hZ6aUHzVUC3x_E646HWlBJIWq74Ro7wvqDr1yC73ofTjRRLVaQnO4AEcNNeqGMyxELd_t0oUvbBa52GnFGRE6ApSDR87MelZqaJw/s1562/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-22%20at%204.15.04%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="663" data-original-width="1562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLLf6HAWB7twK90ef_1caFRFiIoywGYDzO8LkyiIk2VeEhj0c-3iobwdcm2dEkK1NaAgPJbglD3pj8adtUQurzf7hZ6aUHzVUC3x_E646HWlBJIWq74Ro7wvqDr1yC73ofTjRRLVaQnO4AEcNNeqGMyxELd_t0oUvbBa52GnFGRE6ApSDR87MelZqaJw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-22%20at%204.15.04%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> title: LOCK UP
year: 1989
cast: Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, Tom Sizemore
rating:
 ***1/2

</td></tr></tbody></table>Somewhere within the corny, bombastic, 80's-style action is the cool little John Flynn-directed prison
 flick LOCK UP starring Sylvester Stallone as a furloughed convict with six 
months to go — until being suddenly thrust from a nice location to a really nasty 
one thanks to villainous warden Donald Sutherland, more befitting an 
overboard science-fiction film (like later in THE HUNGER GAMES)... Sutherland’s cartoonishly vengeful tyrant aside, it’s Stallone (again backed by a Bill Conti score) doing his usual strong silent type and — with the aid of fellow prisoners like a talkative exposition-spouting yet ultimately mischievous Tom Sizemore (an energetic scene-stealer as usual) and gentle-giant Frank McCrae as the head of 
the jailhouse auto garage — he has some fun, fixing up a dream car to muscular 70's rock...

action, darlanne fluegel, donald sutherland, eighties, frank mcrea, john ams, john flynn, prison, sonny landham, sylvester stallone, tom sizemore

SYLVESTER STALLONE & TOM SIZEMORE IN JOHN FLYNN'S 'LOCK UP'

title: LOCK UP year: 1989 cast: Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, Tom Sizemore rating: ***1/2 Somewhere within the corny, bombas...

STEVEN SPIELBERG PRESENTS KURT RUSSELL SELLING 'USED CARS'

<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/AVvXsEhznkORU5byTHQ2R-NRrzR2y-BSgPM9z7epSOeUG7SbP6TUW18Fdrip_8OGJjgg7dw6UgBM03Y13e0OEEDHmyOiXXC5n59OMdCRQ91SovXNL-Lw7_HITV3zy1tw5IjDyk2qb_7dqxQ0ED6f3ptoDV1OLAiiwq6nb2CTk-uNOtbWd9ZG0FsaZplbnKJndw=s1439" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="1439" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhznkORU5byTHQ2R-NRrzR2y-BSgPM9z7epSOeUG7SbP6TUW18Fdrip_8OGJjgg7dw6UgBM03Y13e0OEEDHmyOiXXC5n59OMdCRQ91SovXNL-Lw7_HITV3zy1tw5IjDyk2qb_7dqxQ0ED6f3ptoDV1OLAiiwq6nb2CTk-uNOtbWd9ZG0FsaZplbnKJndw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: USED CARS Producer: Steven Spielberg Director: Bob Zemeckis Year: 1980 Rates: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Around the time that <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/11/1941.html">Steven Spielberg's WWII comedy</a> started vanishing from the collective moviegoer memories, the entire <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/11/1941.html">1941</a> team, also including producer John Milius co-writing with Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, had a new movie out that bombed in theaters, unlike 1941 that, despite its maligned reputation, did turn a profit... The irony is the Robert Zemickis directed USED CARS, co-written by Gale and produced by Milius and Spielberg, was getting the kind of "sleeper" attention within its predecessor's ebbing wake...