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Subgenre Sampler
Romancing the Stone (1985)- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas - Witty, fast–paced adventure through the South American jungle with Turner and Douglas well cast as made–for–each–other…
Runaway Train (1985)
- Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
Feat. Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay - Voight and Roberts are terrific as two ecsaped convicts who endure a nerve–jangling journey aboard an unstoppable locomotive. Based on a…
Bounty, The (1984)- Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier… - Robert Bolt’s (A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS) version of the ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ tale of Fletcher Christian’s (Mel Gibson) mutiny…
Greystoke (1984)- Dir. Hugh Hudson
Feat. Christopher Lambert, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm… - Tale of Tarzan (Christopher Lambert), is here evoked with a suitably steamy jungle atmosphere and festooned with Edwardian theories of 'social…
Shaka Zulu (TV Mini-series) (1984)- Dir. William C Faure
Feat. Robert Powell, Edward Fox, Henry Cele - Set in 19th century South Africa, this recounts the epic land wars between the Zulu tribes and European immigrants, with true TV mini–series…
Year of Living Dangerously, The (1983)- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt… - Multi–layered, vivid yarn posits Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver as foreign officials in 1965 Indonesia at the time of the communist coup.…
Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981)- Dir. David Hemmings
Feat. Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasence… - Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasance and George Peppard cavort on and over the South Island in search of a 'McGuffin'.
Southern Comfort (1981)- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward… - A foolish National Guard unit encounter anything but Southern hospitality while on training manoeuvres in the Louisiana bayous. This allegory of the…
Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)- Dir. John Derek
Feat. Bo Derek, Richard Harris, Miles O'Keefe - Famously atrocious 1980s retelling of the Tarzan story, with the lone distinction of featuring a semi–clothed Bo Derek. Playing the apeman,…
Lion of the Desert (1980)- Dir. Moustapha Akkad
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, John Gielgud… - An epic account of the 'David and Goliath' battle on the Libyan desert between Mussolini's all–powerful army and the Bedouin, circa 1930.
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