Biography: Jack Starrett |
Starting out as an actor and production assistant in basement-budget cycle flicks like Angels from Hell, Jack Starrett matriculated into a director of exploitation and blaxploitation features. Starrett is the "auteur" of such low-cost money-spinners... more
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Tags: Slasher Film Horror
Length: 95min
Not bad as far as slasher movies go, Brothers in Arms is set-inevitably-in a remote backwoods community. The title refers to a pair of siblings who don't get along (that's putting it mildly). When the brothers inadvertently venture into looney-land,...
Length: 86min
Steven Chase (William Zipp) is a naive jogger who runs across a dying man with a gun in this low-budget action thriller. With his dying breath, the man hands Steven the gun and says "you're it." Steven is now in a deadly urban game of cat-and-mouse as...
Cast: Sylvester Stallone Jerry Goldsmith Brian Dennehy David Caruso Ted Kotcheff
Tags: Action Thriller Action
Length: 94min
First Blood is the Sylvester Stallone film that unleashed "Rambo" onto an unsuspecting world. Wandering into a small, hostile town, ex-Green Beret John Rambo (Stallone) is targeted for persecution and abuse by potbellied Sheriff Will Teasle (Brian...
Cast: Richard Widmark David Carradine Richard Masur Karen Black William Goldman
Length: 200min
In this western, based on a William Goldman novel, the life of scout Tom Horn, an idealistic fellow whose life experiences turn him into a bitter bounty hunter, is chronicled. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes (1981)
Tags: Action Drama Science Fiction
Length: 92min
Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes was cobbled together from two 1974 episodes of the TV series Planet of the Apes, which of course was inspired by the popular movie series of the same name. Ron Harper and James Naughton play two...
Tags: Escape Film Romance
Length: 101min
No relation to the 1987 film of the same name, 1983's Summer Heat is an R-rated "con on the run" affair. Bruce Davidson plays a starry-eyed young shepherd who manages to get himself a stiff jail sentence. With the help of girl friend Susan George,...
Tags: Drama
Length: 100min
Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Sue Anderson heads the cast of the made-for-TV The Survival of Dana. Dana Lee (Anderson) is a basically decent high school girl who suffers severe culture shock when her family moves to another town. A victim...
Thaddeus Rose and Eddie (1978)
Cast: Jack Starrett
Tags: Western
Length: 100min
Johnny and June Carter Cash star in the made-for-TV Thaddeus Rose and Eddie. But they don't necessarily play the title characters: true, Cash essays the role of indigent Texas Thaddeus Rose, but his buddy Eddie is played by Bo Hopkins. June is seen as...
Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus (1978)
Cast: William Daniels Charles Napier
Tags: Comedy Sports Drama
Length: 100min
Nice to see veteran hardcase character actor Charles Napier in a leading role, even if it's in something as eminently forgettable as Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus. The eponymous Big Bob (Napier) is head man of a spit-and-vinegar auto...
Walking Tall: The Final Chapter (1977)
Cast: Forrest Tucker Bo Svenson
Tags: Police Drama Action Docudrama Action Thriller
Length: 112min
Rated R for violence, this is another of the promises broken to us by the movie industry. When they promise that we won't have to see something again, why can't they make it happen? Although this, like the Jason movies (Friday the 13th ad nauseam), is...
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