Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Sea Wolves, The (1980)- Dir. Andrew McLagen
Feat. Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven… - Salty War drama based on a real covert mission during World War II in which a group of middle–aged civilian ex–soldiers are sent by the…
Shogun (Mini Series) (1980)
- Dir. Jerry London
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune - Exciting TV mini–series version of James Clavell's novel set in Feudal Japan. Great locations and rousing battle–scenes make for a most…
Stir (1980)- Dir. Stephen Wallace
Feat. Bryan Brown, Max Phipps, Dennis Miller… - Grimily authentic prison drama (an Australian specialty) charts the brutality of the NSW penal system in the 1970s and the eventual consequence: mass…
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…
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