#Burt Kennedy

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Ricardo Montalban-Elke Sommer-Glenn Ford "La trampa del dinero" (The money trap) 1965, de Burt Kennedy.

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Hannie Caulder, Mexican lobby card. 1971

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“Hannie Caulder“ by Burt Kennedy (1971) Raquel Welch in Fuerte Dino de Laurentiis, Tabernas #Almeria

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John Davis Chandler The Good Guys and the Bad Guys Dir: Burt Kennedy

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RIDE LONESOME:

Brigade finds outlaw

Others help him on journey

What are their motives?

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Suburban Commando (1991)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

From the setup, you expect Suburban Commando to be fairly straightforward. It probably won’t be good but by following its formula, it might entertain kids. Inexplicably, the film misses all of the easy opportunities given to it and doesn’t even manage to meet the meagre expectations placed upon it. At best, it has a couple of meme-worthy scenes. You won’t remember this movie down the line.

Intergalactic warrior Step Ramsey (Hulk Hogan) has finally defeated the villainous General Suitor (William Ball) but just barely. His superior suggests he take a vacation, which sees him become marooned on a backwater planet - Earth. Attempting to blend in with the locals until his ship repairs itself, he befriends Charlie Wilcox (Christopher Lloyd), an unappreciated architect working for Adrian Beltz (Larry Miller).

A warrior from a distant world finding himself out of his environment and befriending a local to kill time is not a new plot. The thing is, usually these types of stories have the outsider pair up with a kid. You can see why after this movie. Having a grown man mess with Ramsey’s high-tech gear and try to be a superhero just doesn’t feel right. When Ramsey gets in trouble because he misunderstands stuff we take for granted, you keep thinking Wilcox should have a tighter leash on him. It gets weirder because Wilcox has a son you think is going to be Hulk Hogan’s sidekick. It's like he was added as an afterthought, but the role has more to offer than Shelley Duvall's. She plays Mrs. Wilcox and has nothing to do.

The character arcs are clumsy and predictable. Charlie’s biggest obstacles are a pair of redneck neighbors who steal his parking spot (a subplot that never gets resolved), his underappreciative boss, and a stoplight. Okay then. Step Ramsey (whose name is distracting because it sounds so much like Chef Ramsey) might as well be a robot. Hogan is little more than a prop dragged around from one episodic gag to the next. Even if he could act, he isn’t given the opportunity to. At least his physical prowess is well used in the film’s best scenes, all of which include a mime whose luck has run out.

It all builds towards an ending that’s uninspired and generic but at least Suburban Commando is harmless. If you’re thinking this is going to be one of those “so bad it’s good” movies, you will get a couple of laughs from the scenes where it steals from Star Wars wholesale but those moments come and go quickly. After that, you’re stuck watching a movie that makes you wonder why anyone bothered. (On VHS, January 17, 2020)

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The silly spy spoof ‘The Trouble With Spies’ starring Donald Sutherland snuck into theaters this week 35 years ago. 🕵️‍♂️💼👀

“𝚁𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚎? 𝙸’𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚞𝚢 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕… 𝚏𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜!”

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Young Billy Young (1969)

My rating: 5/10

I gotta admit, I fell asleep partway through the movie and didn't really pay much attention to the rest, but seems like it's mostly about Robert Mitchum being kind of a dick and everybody else fawning at him because the script says he's the coolest.

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Newspaper advertisements for the film Airport (1970)

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Robert Young Jr.-Deana Martin "Pistolero" (Young Billy Young) 1969, de Burt Kennedy.

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Hannie Caulder, Mexican lobby card. 1971

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‘Hannie Caulder“ by Burt Kennedy (1971) Christopher Lee in playa de Los Genoveses, Cabo de Gata. #Almeria.

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Jimmy Murphy, David S. Cass Sr., John Davis Chandler, Phil Vandervort The Good Guys and the Bad Guys Dir: Burt Kennedy

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