Tag: Michael Douglas

• 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…

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  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

• 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