Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Vietnam vet"

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Tracks *** (1976, Dennis Hopper, Taryn Power, Dean Stockwell) – Classic Movie Review 9018

Writer-director Henry Jaglom’s 1976 drama Tracks stars Dennis Hopper as Vietnam veteran sergeant Jack Falen, who accompanies the funeral casket of a dead comrade in arms on an epic train journey across the US to […]

Oct, 25

Blind Fury *** (1989, Rutger Hauer, Terry O’Quinn, Brandon Call, Noble Willingham, Lisa Blount, Nick Cassavetes, Meg Foster) – Classic Movie Review 8865

Director Phillip Noyce’s 1989 Blind Fury stars Rutger Hauer as Nick Parker, a war-blinded samurai swordsman and Vietnam vet, who rescues Billy Devereaux (Brandon Call), the spoiled son of his old army buddy Frank Devereaux […]

Aug, 25

House *** (1985, William Katt, Kay Lenz, George Wendt, Richard Moll) – Classic Movie Review 8141

Perry Mason’s William Katt and George Cheers’s Wendt join forces for director Steve Miner’s daft yet popular 1985 haunted mansion horror-thriller House, with a high tally of foolish laughs and fairground ride-style scares. Katt plays […]

Feb, 17

Dead Presidents ** (1995, Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, Freddy Rodriguez) – Classic Movie Review 3814

Producer-directors Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes’s 1995 action crime thriller is set in The Bronx in the late Sixties. Three African American Vietnam veterans, ignored and neglected by society, plan to steal withdrawn dollar bills […]

Jun, 06

Walking Tall *** (2004, Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Scott, Johnny Knoxville, Neal McDonough) – Classic Movie Review 903

Director Kevin Bray’s 2004 remake of the 1973 thriller Walking Tall sees The Rock (aka Dwayne Johnson) walking tall in Joe Don Baker’s old role as a Vietnam vet who returns to his old rural […]

Mar, 12

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