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Written by James M. Tate / 1/16/2023 / No comments / action , catherine mary stewart , cop , eighties , exploitation , hillarie thompson , joe spinell , keith emerson , lindsay wagner , nigel davenport , rolling stones , rutger hauer , sylvester stallone , thriller

SYLVESTER STALLONE AND RUTGER HAUER IN 'NIGHTHAWKS'

<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/AVvXsEiCHu7vcowNe03e8KYFypDtBikztLYDTqje3uvvMrLKfQvVrhFvMgNjd_nyPlfvg4Tl_kNKy761_vlQ4GOHvBNq_TDldajX6-BAHVvfqQDmQy9yRJW0i_JBNFLBmYxAH4cjzxxsy0IS20ydxkDDuOjfyjP7I-93pcUUPHqXrq0sX3Uhl5fe-v3icr3Adw/s1001/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-14%20at%202.35.33%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="1001" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCHu7vcowNe03e8KYFypDtBikztLYDTqje3uvvMrLKfQvVrhFvMgNjd_nyPlfvg4Tl_kNKy761_vlQ4GOHvBNq_TDldajX6-BAHVvfqQDmQy9yRJW0i_JBNFLBmYxAH4cjzxxsy0IS20ydxkDDuOjfyjP7I-93pcUUPHqXrq0sX3Uhl5fe-v3icr3Adw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-14%20at%202.35.33%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TITLE: NIGHT HAWKS YEAR: 1981 RATING: ***1/2 </td></tr></tbody></table>In any crime flick, the villain moves into the hero's territory, like, say, in the case of THE FRENCH CONNECTION, which NIGHTHAWKS was originally intended to be the third entry of... and Rutger Hauer as a European terrorist does wind up in New York, with a new face and bright blue eyes (he was supposedly surgically-altered to look like what he already looks like): But the way things turn out, it feels like buddy cop partners Sylvester Stallone (sporting an Al Pacino SERPICO beard) and Billy Dee Williams are actually guest-stars in Rutger Hauer's movie... Especially since the film was ultimately cut to 95-minutes, and by the time narc "decoys" Stallone and Williams are called in for anti-terrorist duty, we know more about Hauer's ruthlessness (from flirting with a sweet Catherine Mary Stewart in a London clothes shop before blowing up the place, to killing off the surgeon and a night-clubbing stewardess) than what makes our hard-edge cops really tick...

action, catherine mary stewart, cop, eighties, exploitation, hillarie thompson, joe spinell, keith emerson, lindsay wagner, nigel davenport, rolling stones, rutger hauer, sylvester stallone, thriller

SYLVESTER STALLONE AND RUTGER HAUER IN 'NIGHTHAWKS'

TITLE: NIGHT HAWKS YEAR: 1981 RATING: ***1/2 In any crime flick, the villain moves into the hero's territory, like, say, in the case of ...

PAUL SCOFIELD IN 'A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS' WITH ORSON WELLES

<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/AVvXsEgbWmSjpLLarm_Pf75axWeFOeqsu6qAjLh-TrU5vH9VU2HL3rmAVzviYZ_Pnnij7XHGLL5AcYYy_PhGFPZd3amj3icqFdKzwsprK3qSeNqVS8Fbz1eByQ848mAkIjD1e5C1VHjb-gdvYJYoi6D4j1sFEsrpeQcElvy9cMius32CM2C4fSD5rFMplWOVEQ/s1344/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-02%20at%204.37.01%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="783" data-original-width="1344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbWmSjpLLarm_Pf75axWeFOeqsu6qAjLh-TrU5vH9VU2HL3rmAVzviYZ_Pnnij7XHGLL5AcYYy_PhGFPZd3amj3icqFdKzwsprK3qSeNqVS8Fbz1eByQ848mAkIjD1e5C1VHjb-gdvYJYoi6D4j1sFEsrpeQcElvy9cMius32CM2C4fSD5rFMplWOVEQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-02%20at%204.37.01%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orson Welles in A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Year: 19566</td></tr></tbody></table>Orson Welles, years after CITIZEN KANE, said the hardest role to play 
was probably that of Joseph Cotten's Jeb Leland, a man so determined, honest, 
and stubborn, he doesn't have many rooting for him, but instead, the sympathy goes to the flawed leading man... 
 
Far from the lead, Welles makes an appearance here as a perplexed Cardinal in the Oscar Winning A MAN FOR ALL 
SEASONS, kickstarting an accusation that would lead to the death of the titular 
priest who would not bend for anyone, not even the King of England... the infamous Henry the XIII... who,
 played by Robert Shaw, has a voracious laugh as rich as fool's gold...

england, john hurt, leo mckern, nigel davenport, orson welles, paul scofield, religion, sixties, susannah york

PAUL SCOFIELD IN 'A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS' WITH ORSON WELLES

Orson Welles in A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Year: 19566 Orson Welles, years after CITIZEN KANE, said the hardest role to play was probably that ...

STANLEY BAKER AND STUART WHITMAN IN 'SANDS OF THE KALAHARI'

<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/AVvXsEi_MXFybahkxYWn0Wh1ZfRwntITQfDKhaPH6FI87u9vYWyrsAjBuyYAI4brlotvy3hBHlpiYUAAfnn6cvz3QLH-GxXVeIpkHimTfv_ZdQVNG8v-3r_gTE6PWLu27s1_ejiwaQ6Ir8ek-IZtId169rFa0QuEVtjinZIFu80rblUf2e9nwP5SLxwbr-8Z5Jpo/s1412/AVvXsEiWGyz9WS4HfmnGfB05kNPJn4UFES-yqgQt9ab0MLLweJZyfSmjoRYnR28d7cNXsgY73zuw9-5JXEt9je8cSkkduwPb1SvitXqPpi5X6aqZexQjqV6CJuw1cFpF9-VFhVd9nMOnzzyLKkNt07JN_UoxnEJce8QF3Qw0H7vjL5ICTJsS0o_ZePIopL5TwA=s16000.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="1412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_MXFybahkxYWn0Wh1ZfRwntITQfDKhaPH6FI87u9vYWyrsAjBuyYAI4brlotvy3hBHlpiYUAAfnn6cvz3QLH-GxXVeIpkHimTfv_ZdQVNG8v-3r_gTE6PWLu27s1_ejiwaQ6Ir8ek-IZtId169rFa0QuEVtjinZIFu80rblUf2e9nwP5SLxwbr-8Z5Jpo/s16000/AVvXsEiWGyz9WS4HfmnGfB05kNPJn4UFES-yqgQt9ab0MLLweJZyfSmjoRYnR28d7cNXsgY73zuw9-5JXEt9je8cSkkduwPb1SvitXqPpi5X6aqZexQjqV6CJuw1cFpF9-VFhVd9nMOnzzyLKkNt07JN_UoxnEJce8QF3Qw0H7vjL5ICTJsS0o_ZePIopL5TwA=s16000.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: SANDS OF THE KALAHARI Year: 1965 Rating: *** </td></tr></tbody></table>Supposedly this was the movie that pushed square-jawed British superstar Stanley Baker — who'd just peaked with the same director Cy Endfield for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/ZULU.html">ZULU</a> — into a career downturn, and not just because SANDS OF THE KALAHARI is a deliberately strange and uncomfortable (FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX style) survival tale, initially involving six passengers of a crashed plane stranded in the vast titular desert... As producer, Baker not only gave the best role to Stuart Whitman, but his own character's injured and therefore basically useless for most of the picture: one that features a somewhat convenient ensemble...

action, adventure, airplane, british, harry andrews, nature, nigel davenport, sixties, stanley baker, stuart whitman, survival, susannah york, theodore bikel

STANLEY BAKER AND STUART WHITMAN IN 'SANDS OF THE KALAHARI'

Title: SANDS OF THE KALAHARI Year: 1965 Rating: *** Supposedly this was the movie that pushed square-jawed British superstar Stanley Baker —...

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