Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Vietnam war veteran"

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Backfire *** (1987, Karen Allen, Keith Carradine, Jeff Fahey, Bernie Casey, Dean Paul Martin, Dinah Manhoff) – Classic Movie Review 12,105

Director Gilbert Cates’s 1987 murderous love triangle mystery-thriller film Backfire stars Karen Allen, Keith Carradine and Jeff Fahey, along with Bernie Casey, Dean Paul Martin and Dinah Manhoff. Fahey plays a much troubled Vietnam war veteran called […]

May, 07

Distant Thunder *** (1988, John Lithgow, Ralph Macchio, Kerrie Keane) – Classic Movie Review 11,173

‘A hero of war. A casualty of peace. With only one hope for survival. His son.’  Director Rick Rosenthal’s 1988 drama Distant Thunder is a well-played and likeable, but clichéd and over-sentimental Canadian tearjerker, though […]

May, 06

Lolly-Madonna XXX [The Lolly-Madonna War] ** (1973, Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Scott Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 10,440

There’s a gory battle for land between fighting families the Feathers and the Gutshalls deep in rural Tennessee, in the 1973 action crime film Lolly-Madonna XXX. Rod Steiger and Robert Ryan come off best as […]

Oct, 20

Missing in Action 2: The Beginning * (1985, Chuck Norris, Soon-Tek Oh, Steven Williams) – Classic Movie Review 10,336

Director Lance Hool’s 1985 film Missing in Action 2: The Beginning brings back Chuck Norris in the Seventies-set prequel to 1984’s hit Missing in Action, in which Colonel James Braddock (Norris) has a terrible time […]

Sep, 22

Malone *** (1987, Burt Reynolds, Cliff Robertson, Lauren Hutton, Kenneth McMillan, Cynthia Gibb, Scott Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 10,225

Director Harley Cokeliss’s 1987 action thriller Malone stars Burt Reynolds in this modern-day Western as Malone, an ex-CIA hitman who uncovers a right-wing plot to seize control of the US government after his breaks down […]

Aug, 25

The Karate Kid Part III ** (1989, Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Robyn Lively, Thomas Ian Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 9720

They pushed their luck making a third one when the material was already starting to wear thin in The Karate Kid Part II and the ‘Kid’ Ralph Macchio was nearly 30 (though he does look […]

May, 06

The Domino Principle [The Domino Killings] * (1977, Gene Hackman, Richard Widmark, Candice Bergen, Mickey Rooney, Edward Albert, Eli Wallach) – Classic Movie Review 9141

Director Stanley Kramer’s 1977 assassination thriller The Domino Principle [The Domino Killings] stars Richard Widmark as mystery man Tagge, who approaches wrongly convicted murderer Roy Tucker (Gene Hackman), who is serving time in San Quentin […]

Dec, 09

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