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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'

<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/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;"><u>Randall Tex Cobb & Kelly Junkerman in UNCOMMON VALOR Year: 1983 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>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... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>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 <i>Youth in Asia</i>) became what's now a somewhat forgotten, equally cult-and-mainstream post-war action/thriller... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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...

THOR MARVELS THE HULK IN 'THE INCREDIBLE HULK RETURNS'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack Colvin wouldn't like Eric Allan Kramer angry either YEAR: 1988</u></td></tr>
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The first and best of three post series Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno INCREDIBLE HULK television movies, and since Marvels' THE AVENGERS is such a hot commodity, this live-action Thor teaming with Hulk circa 1988 was decades ahead of its time...<br>
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And comparably dated, but it's hard to deny the infectious charm of Eric Allan Kramer as the Norse god who, discovered from a backstory/flashback by his dweeby keeper played by dweeby actor Steve Levitt, is a scene-stealing stranger in a strange land, making THE INCREDIBLE HULK RETURNS more like a possible Thor pilot than a continuation of the titular green hero. After Thor (and Levitt's Donald Blake) parties at a local biker bar, he helps Lou Ferrigno's Hulk<i> after</i> fighting him inside a corporation laboratory where, once again, Bixby's David Banner surreptitiously works, trying to permanently cease his roaring alter ego... And what does every mobile lonely man need?<br>

bill bixby, charles napier, eighties, eric allan kramer, franchise, interview, jack colvin, lee purcell, lou ferrigno, marvel, steve levitt, tim thomerson, tv movie

THOR MARVELS THE HULK IN 'THE INCREDIBLE HULK RETURNS'

Jack Colvin wouldn't like Eric Allan Kramer angry either YEAR: 1988 The first and best of three post series Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno ...

JOHN CANDY GETS HIS OWN FLETCH IN 'WHO'S HARRY CRUMB?'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>VHS/DVD Slip-Cover YEAR: 1989 Score: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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This underrated comedy, with the title-character going from place to place to figure out who kidnapped a rich man's gorgeous daughter, learning he's inept at filling the shoes at his
 family-owned detective agency while always screwing things up, is an enjoyable time-filler... <br>
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Basically it's John Candy's FLETCH and, while paling to the Chevy Chase classic (yet far superior to FLETCH LIVES), both wear disguises for each undercover scenario, taking the Film 
Noir gumshoe template into the bright and glossy late-1980s (there's even a miniature orange tree on Harry's desk, a subtle nod to CHINATOWN)... <br>
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The funniest moments don't seem intentional like the physical gags, especially as Crumb flounders for the right words around comparably classy, educated tricksters (like Annie Potts or snobby villain Jeffrey Jones). And despite the overall humor being hit and miss, the eclectic RUTHLESS PEOPLE style characters interact well, especially the unique and flowing chemistry between Candy 
and "ugly duckling" Shawnee Smith as the younger sister of the kidnapped supermodel. And beware of the <i>totally awesome</i> video rental cover (shown above): it's merely a flimsy cardboard slip-cover over the actual DVD/Blu Ray with same artwork sans the retro VHS gimmick.   <br>

annie potts, barry corbin, comedy, eighties, jeffrey jones, joe flaherty, john candy, neo noir, shawnee smith, tim thomerson, valri bromfield

JOHN CANDY GETS HIS OWN FLETCH IN 'WHO'S HARRY CRUMB?'

VHS/DVD Slip-Cover YEAR: 1989 Score: ***1/2 This underrated comedy, with the title-character going from place to place to figure out who...

DANNY DEVITO UNDELETED FROM 'CAR WASH' W/ BROOKE ADAMS

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Danny DeVito in CAR WASH with Tim Thomerson</u></td></tr>
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Before he became famous as the angry little dispatcher for a hard working group of otherwise optimistic cab drivers on TAXI, Danny DeVito had a scene in CAR WASH with Brooke Adams that would wind up <i>mostly</i> on the cutting room floor... although he can be seen (running from Adams) behind lady's man Tim Thomerson.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Danny DeVito in CAR WASH slapping a table with Tim Thomerson as Ken in the foreground</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Danny DeVito in CAR WASH with an angry Brooke Adams on his tail and Lauren Jones</u></td></tr>
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brooke adams, cameo, danny devito, ensemble, seventies, tim thomerson

DANNY DEVITO UNDELETED FROM 'CAR WASH' W/ BROOKE ADAMS

Danny DeVito in CAR WASH with Tim Thomerson Before he became famous as the angry little dispatcher for a hard working group of otherwise...

Written by James M. Tate / 5/09/2017 / No comments / body count , dark comedy , dennis christopher , eighties , exploitation , horror , linda kerridge , marcie barkin , mickey rourke , morgan paull , neo noir , tim thomerson

DENNIS CHRISTOPHER'S TOUR-DE-FORCE OF 'FADE TO BLACK'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dennis Christopher in FADE TO BLACK Year: 1980</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"That was a lot of fun and I got burnt by squibs, they’re called," is <i>not</i> a quote from Dennis Christopher, who does the shooting, but future BLADE RUNNER character-actor Morgan Paull in our interview six months before his untimely death...</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Centering on his own particular curtain call in a movie that lives up to its name: If PSYCHO Norman Bates was heavily into cinema, you'd have FADE TO BLACK; but not really since it took until the 1980's (and/or late 70's) where the immense wave of pop culture began to recede, and film buffs and even intellectuals were human movie quiz books, and Dennis Christopher's Eric Binford epitomizes what's called a Cinefile to the point that he makes sure he lives on 99 RIVER STREET...</span></span><br>

body count, dark comedy, dennis christopher, eighties, exploitation, horror, linda kerridge, marcie barkin, mickey rourke, morgan paull, neo noir, tim thomerson

DENNIS CHRISTOPHER'S TOUR-DE-FORCE OF 'FADE TO BLACK'

Dennis Christopher in FADE TO BLACK Year: 1980 "That was a lot of fun and I got burnt by squibs, they’re called," is not a qu...

IRON EAGLE

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHdlXD-8xxnogRMRbRuGWMz_1xy93b-Zlq2hflpuFXaPBEf3HmySBCBKG51B_hok_kHe6ssPoM7FF7gFl_qW23N3x9gtV-TXlYHPKe5fxGU8Z2C4gPoBZ3HFtKwLPT74Aa3cTdDpPYFbU/s1600/iron-eagle.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529861306096018450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHdlXD-8xxnogRMRbRuGWMz_1xy93b-Zlq2hflpuFXaPBEf3HmySBCBKG51B_hok_kHe6ssPoM7FF7gFl_qW23N3x9gtV-TXlYHPKe5fxGU8Z2C4gPoBZ3HFtKwLPT74Aa3cTdDpPYFbU/s200/iron-eagle.jpg" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 177px" /></a><strong>title:</strong> IRON EAGLE<br /><div><div><strong>year:</strong> 1986</div><div><strong>cast:</strong> Jason Gedrick, Louis Gossett Jr., Jerry Levine, Larry B. Scott, Robbie Rist, Tim Thomerson</div><div><strong>rating:</strong> *</div><br /><div>Begins as an enjoyably bad film, the likes you'll on cable on a weekend afternoon, centering on a teenager, Jason Gedrick, whose military dad is captured in a third world country. He and his misfit buddies aim to pull off what the military won't: a rescue. Unfortunately, Gedrick's friendship with maverick flyer Louis Gossett Jr. takes over, and the other kids, including Robbie Rist, Jerry Levine, and Larry B. Scott, are replaced by tedious bouts of Gossett's rambling dialog to his young protegee, thus leading to the mission/dog fight that never quite establishes who's being battled up there. </div></div>

action, eighties, jason gedrick, larry b. scott, louis gossett jr., military, robbie rist, teen, tim thomerson