Biography: J. Lee Thompson |
Before reaching his twentieth birthday, British film director J. Lee Thompson was an established repertory actor and playwright. He entered films as an actor in 1934, then switched to screenwriting (usually in collaboration) five years later.... more
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Tags: Thriller Action Thriller
Length: 90min
Even though Charles Bronson doesn't carry a gun in this feature, there are still plenty of the fights, car chases, and explosions -- all hallmarks of Bronson's action films. Bronson plays ~Denver Tribune crime reporter Garrett Smith, who investigates...
Cast: Louis Gossett, Jr. J. Lee Thompson
Tags: Action Comedy Adventure Comedy Action Adventure Comedy
Length: 106min
Firewalker stars Chuck Norris as Max Donigan, an ex-Marine, and Louis Gossett, Jr. as his buddy, Leo Porter. Both set out to help Patricia Goodwyn (Melody Anderson) find a lost Aztec city and a temple filled with gold. After a few misadventures, their...
Cast: Carrie Snodgress
Tags: Action Thriller Thriller Police Detective Film
Length: 101min
An officer of the law becomes a wanted man while trailing a killer in this crime drama. Jack Murphy (Charles Bronson) is a police detective who helped to put Joan Freeman (Carrie Snodgress), a psychotic murderer, behind bars ten years ago. However,...
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)
Tags: Action Thriller Police Detective Film
Length: 97min
Once again, Charles Bronson plays a renegade cop out for vigilante justice in the darkest heart of the urban jungle. This time, he is targeting an especially ruthless pimp who has been leading innocent young girls into prostitution. When the pimp...
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
Cast: Charles Bronson
Tags: Action Thriller Action
Length: 100min
Charles Bronson, weary and comatose, is trotted out again as the cocked crusader Paul Kersey in Death Wish 4: The Crackdown. Director Michael Winner has jumped ship for this installment, replaced by J. Lee Thompson (who has seen better days). Kersey...
Cast: Sharon Stone Jerry Goldsmith Herbert Lom John Rhys-Davies Richard Chamberlain
Tags: Romantic Adventure Adventure
Length: 101min
The action in this routine adventure film would be modeled on the enormously successful Indiana Jones but it is too much, too fast, too deja vu. It all starts when Jessie Huston (Sharon Stone, before stardom) talks adventurer Allen Quatermain (Richard...
Cast: José Ferrer
Tags: Thriller Adventure Action Action Thriller
Length: 90min
In yet another slick, formulaic Charles Bronson vengeance film (they would continue until the actor was in his mid-70s, still playing the morally insulted friend/husband/lover), Bronson is Holland, an assassin for hire who has just come out of...
Tags: Action Thriller Police Detective Film Thriller
Length: 101min
Charles Bronson at 63 or so, continues his vigilante persona in this run-of-the-mill crime drama about a Richard Speck-style killer who knifes young nurses to death. There is no doubt that the film exploits both the heinous, 1966 Speck murder of eight...
Cast: Robert Mitchum Rock Hudson Donald Pleasence Ellen Burstyn
Tags: Political Thriller Romance
Length: 97min
Robert Mitchum plays as U.S. ambassador to Israel whose efforts at reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians run afoul of the somewhat questionable ambitions of security advisor Rock Hudson. Meanwhile, Mitchum's wife Ellen Burstyn embarks upon...
Cast: Glenn Ford
Tags: Horror Slasher Film
Length: 111min
Certainly the low point in Glenn Ford's acting career, this Canadian production is, nevertheless, one of the slickest-looking slasher films from that subgenre's early-'80s heyday. The plot (what one can make of it) involves an unseen killer stalking a...
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