Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Tom Horn (1980)- Dir. William Wiard
Feat. Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth… - Flawed but beautifully lensed tale based on a real–life Wyoming bounty hunter, who outlived the wild years of the 19th century and was…
Young Master, The (Shi di chu ma) (1980)- Dir. Jackie Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan, Biao Yuen - A fine early action–comedy from the phenomenal Jackie Chan, here trying to lure a wayward fellow student back to the 'right' side of martial…
A Force Of One (1979)- Dir. Paul Aaron
Feat. Chuck Norris, Jennifer O'Neill, Clu Gulager… - Passable crime thriller with Chuck Norris near the start of his career playing a karate champion assisting the police to hunt down a…
Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall… - A harrowing account of a soldier's hazardous river journey, his mission to assasinate a renegade colonel who has gone mad in the depths of the…
Apocalypse Now Redux (1979)- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall… - Twenty years after its release, dir. Coppola’s expressionist epic of the Vietnam War, is ‘healed’ (redux in Latin) by the re–inclusion of…
Arabian Adventure (1979)- Dir. Kevin Conner
Feat. Christopher Lee, Milo O'Shea, Mickey Rooney… - Sumptuous Arabic fantasy set around a treasure hunt for the mystical Rose of Elil. Good f/x and a great British cast make for smooth entertainment.
Ashanti (1979)- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Omar Sharif… - When his wife is kidnapped by Arab slave traders, UN medic Michael Caine hops aboard a camel and goes on an adventure quest to retrieve her. Caine…
Bushido Blade, The (1979)- Dir. Shusei Kotani
Feat. Richard Boone, Frank Converse, James Earl Jones… - Predating SHOGUN by a year, this martial arts adventure set in mid–19th century Japan, has an American marine (Boone) pledged to recover the…
Cuba (1979)- Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Sean Connery - Political adventure set at the end of the Batista regime concerning a mercenary mixing business with pleasure in the revolution–torn state.
Dukes of Hazzard, The (TV Series) (1979-1985)- Feat. Tom Wopat, John Schneider, Catherine Bach…
- Mixing hayseed humour and car–action aplenty, this hit TV show milked Southern stereotypes for all their worth as country cousins Bo (dark) and…
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