Tag: Hal Holbrook

• Extreme Cinema! “Go Ahead, Make My Day!”

  Clinton “Clint” Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure. After earning success in the Western TV series Rawhide, he rose to international fame with his role as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s, and as antihero cop…

  lawlerd

  May 28, 2017

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  1983, action, Albert Popwell, Andrew Robinson, Clint Eastwood, crime, crime/drama, Dirty Harry, graphic violence, Hal Holbrook, mystery, Pat Hingle, Rene Santoni, Sondra Locke, Sudden Impact, violence, Warner Bros., Warners

• Vintage Cable Box: “The Star Chamber, 1983”

  “I’ve got five women shot through the head.  I got bodies piling up all around me.  I’m passing out the ammunition!” The Star Chamber, 1983 (Michael Douglas), 20th Century Fox Test case: a couple of undercover cops are chasing a suspicious character who dumps his gun in a garbage can. They’re about to search the…

  lawlerd

  May 2, 2016

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  1983, conservative ideology, crime-drama, criminal justice, criminal justice reform, criminal law, Don Calfa, Hal Holbrook, Joe Regalbuto, Michael Douglas, Murphy Brown, Outland, Peter Hyams, revenge fantasy, Sharon Gless, Stay Tuned, The Star Chamber, vigilante thriller, vigilantes

• “Creepshow, 1982”

  “Come on Harry, the maiden fair waits for her knight in shining corduroy.” To mark the occasion of the one-year anniversary of my association with Mark Jeacoma and his wonderful VHS Rewind! podcast and blog, I am adding a previous review I wrote for the 1982 horror anthology, Creepshow, and adapting it for this Vintage…

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  October 28, 2015

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  Adrienne Barbeau, anthology, anthology horror, Blissville, Creepshow, Dawn of the Dead, Educational Comics, George A. Romero, Hal Holbrook, horror, Joe King, Leslie, Mark Jeacoma, Max Gaines, Neilsen, Night of the Living Dead, Stephen King, Tales From The Crypt, Tales From The Darkside, Ted Danson, VHS Rewind