Tag: intrigue

• “Rollover, 1981”

  “You’re gonna need a partner.” Rollover, 1981 (Jane Fonda), Orion With 1981’s Rollover, I gather I’m watching a movie about people who are obsessed with money. It’s never been my bag, but I’m willing to go along for the ride. Clean-shaven Kris Kristofferson (fresh from shooting the Harvard prologue in Heaven’s Gate) is a banking…

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  February 7, 2018

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  1981, Alan J. Pakula, high finance, Hume Cronyn, intrigue, Jane Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, Orion, Rollover, Warner Brothers

• Vintage Cable Box: “Romancing The Stone, 1984”

  “What’d you do?  Wake up this morning and say, ‘Today I’m gonna ruin a man’s life!’?” Romancing The Stone, 1984 (Michael Douglas), 20th Century Fox Romancing The Stone begins as a story-within-a-story, the perils of Angelina and her love-interest, Jessie. She exacts revenge on the evil Grogan, while Jessie dispatches Grogan’s equally-evil brothers. Together they…

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  December 14, 2015

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  1941, 1984, action, action adventure, comedy, Danny DeVito, el Corazon, emerald, Indiana Jones, intrigue, Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Robert Zemeckis, romance, Romancing The Stone, South America, Steven Spielberg, The African Queen