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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Fast Company (1979)- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. William Smith, Claudia Jennings, John Saxon - Dir. Cronenberg's least typical movie – a straightforward car racing actioner – about a team of drag racers who must overcome their…
From Hell to Victory (1979)- Dir. Umberto Lenzi
Feat. George Peppard, George Hamilton, Horst Buchholz… - Italian exploitation hack Umberto Lenzi directs this serviceable WWII epic, about six friends who vow to reunite despite going their separate ways…
G.I. Samurai (Sengoku jieitai; Time Slip) (1979)- Dir. Mitsumasa Saito
Feat. Sonny Chiba, Jun Eto - A squadron of Japanese soldiers, together with their weaponry, helicopter and gunboat, are accidentally caught in a 'time slip' and transported back…
Hart to Hart (TV Series) (1979-1984)- Feat. Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers
- Classic TV fluff from the 1980s, this erstwhile detective series features a wealthy married couple (Wagner and Powers) spending their spare time as…
Heroes Of The East (Zhong hua zhang fu) (1979)- Feat. Chia Hui Liu, Yuka Mizuno
- Graceful martial arts film focused around a Chinese man who must prove the superiority of Chinese kung fu over Japanese to his disillusioned Japanese…
Jaguar Lives! (1979)- Dir. Ernest Pintoff
Feat. Joe Lewis, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence… - A Spanish–American actioner featuring "three Bond villains" and "one Bond beauty" in the cast but who, in true exploitation fashion, barely…
Mad Max Anthology, the (1979-2015)- Dir. George Miller
- All four MAD MAX films in one box set.
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