The Last Hard Men - The Harder They Come...
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2022
- During the video nasty furore of the 1980’s Samuel Fuller’s The Big Red One got banned from the home video market based on the title alone. Some censor mad psycho felt it referred to something of a sexual nature without taking the time to watch it. Just imagine (if it were released later) what fate would have befallen The Last HARD Men. Whereas Deep Throat would have been awarded an instant U certificate as a brave little film about some poor unfortunate person with laryngitis. Funny old world, isn’t it?
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Heston and Coburn were together in Major Dundee (1964 ) nice blog
Thanks, pambos. Appreciated.
It was bugging me where I'd seen Larry Wilcox from so I had to look it up, he was officer Jon Baker from CHiPs. Interesting to see him playing a villain here.
Larry Wilcox was indeed in something called CHiPs, which although I know, I never actually watched. It was quite popular I understand. For a short while.
He walked away from acting while at the top of his career during the Chips TV show. Became a rancher in Montana, I believe .
@@luisvaldes1568 Good choice.
I saw this movie when it came out with my dad and brothers. I was 11. Bought it later on VHS. One of my favorite westerns.
Barbra Hersey was hot in the late 70's thur the early 80's. See The Stunt Man from 1980. I did not like the way Jorge Rivero was killed.
Hey, Luis, many thanks for commenting. Appreciated.
You have checked off all my responses that I had when I caught this on TV. I remember thinking this was a strange look for a McLaglen western with all the nasty slow motion shots. I'll always have better thoughts of the director with his westerns he did in the sixties. I actually had a better time in the theater watching John Wayne in "The Undefeated" than Henry Hathaway's "True Grit" , both coming out a few months from each other.
My favourite McLaglen directed western is the surprisingly abrasive Bandolero with Jimmy Stewart, Dean Martin and Raquel Welch. It's a harder-edged horse opera, perhaps taking some cues from the spaghettis. with an atypically downbeat ending where neither lead actors character prevails all that successfully. Thanks for commenting, Keith. Much appreciated.
@@tonybush555 Agree! You don't see Jimmy Stewart and Dean Martin both play anti-heroes plus both get killed in a movie with George Kennedy the good guy who survives! Plus the great Jerry Goldsmith's music score has a Morricone feel to it and try not leaving the theater without whistling that tune he came up with !
@@keithbrown8490 With you all the way. T.
You should check out Douglas Hickox’s Sky Riders. What’s your favorite film of his?
In which Coburn takes up hang gliding for a hostage rescue mission. It's a nice cheap little Euro-actioner with short-stop French crooner Charles Aznavour as a police chief. Favourite Hickcox movie is without a doubt Sitting Target ua-cam.com/video/r0HSjoyObDQ/v-deo.html Love that film.
I'm going to make some generalisations (to prevent my comment running to thousands of words), but I grew up in the 1970's and the standard of general entertainment films was mostly not good....as in clearly running out of inspiration, risk-averse and often just TV movies with big budgets (Airport '75, Earthquake, etc.). Disney were in a slump. Musicals were box office bombs ('Star', 'Hello Dolly'). The line between A & B movies was blurring (e.g. Doug McClure). For every 'The Taking Of Pelham 123', 'The Outlaw Josey Wells', 'Halloween', there were dozens of dreary, mechanical products greenlit by the studio executives. The kind that made the Pearl & Dean advertising seem entirely appropriate to introduce. And family friendly movies were among the very worst of this So....[and bear with me here, Tony]....when 'JAWS' and 'Star Wars' were all-time box office successes, it's not surprising that Hollywood studios decided to throw money and resources in that direction. This was compounded by the great young film makers of the decade often blowing mega-budgets on extravagant films like 'New York, New York', 'Heaven's Gate', 'One From The Heart', etc. With studios increasingly vulnerable to take-overs, what happened made business and career sense to the executives. The alternative: Alan Ladd Jnr's 'Ladd Company' more or less went under with a string of films ending with 'The Right Stuff'. Lucas intended 'Star Wars' to run counter to the trend in Hollywood and create a relatively small number of similar films by other film makers. Instead we got a pattern where studios had to bet everything on one or two mega hits. 20th Century Fox's other films in 1977 were 'Damnation Alley' and 'The Other Side Of Midnight'. It's easy to see why the industry developed the way it did.
And I do see it, Numinous20111, and understand it. Liking it, though, and the ripple effect that has led us to where we are today is a different matter. My personal belief is Star Wars was an easier act to follow than Jaws because it wasn't very good and if people would buy that then we ain't gonna have to try so hard. Just feed them more shiny dumb. Replicating Jaws, a textbook masterpiece of suspense and adventure, brilliantly directed and acted, that's not such an easy ask. Lowest common denominator, I guess. That's why there are masses of superhero and Star Wars spinoff movies and shows today. Funny you should mention Airport '75 as I caught Airport '77 on Talking Pictures about a week ago. An incredibly stupid film with a long roll call of actors who should have known better. Bad as it was, though, (and, let's face it, it's BAD) I had more fun watching it than I did the last James Bond flick No Time To Die and The Batman (the last film I've seen in a cinema to date - there may not be another). Whether that says more about me or the state of modern cinema I honestly don't know.
Thanks for commenting. You always come up with something reasoned and intelligent, whereas I sort of edge towards the other end of the spectrum - sometimes on purpose, sometimes not so much. Always a pleasure, Numinous20111. T.
I still think 'Airport '77' is better than 'Airport '75'....if that's any consolation. 'JAWS' was a one-off. An extremely vibrant and engaging film, with everything going wrong behind the camera, but coming together beautifully on the screen. It's easy to think of all the studio projects before and after it that prove 'JAWS' is the exception (e.g. the dull, dull, dull 'JAWS 2'). I take your point about 'Star Wars' being easier to imitate, but again Lucas intended it as a diversion derived from pulps/movie serials and was as surprised as anyone at its run away success. As bad as modern cinema is.......at least we don't have 'Airport 2022'!
@@CaminoAir You seen Moonfall? Not that I would wish that on anyone or encourage you to do so, but it's a disaster movie so bad it makes Airport '75 and possibly even The Cassandra Crossing look like high concept cinematic artistry. And that's some feat.
Yes, I'm pretty sure Lucas never expected what happened with Star Wars. He was a nostalgia hound, something American Graffiti evidences by showcasing his nostalgic affection for the earlier times of his youth, and he originally wanted to remake the Flash Gordon serials as a feature film because they were a fond childhood memory of his. He couldn't get the rights, so he knocked out Star Wars instead. His influences are solid - Kurosawa, Spaghetti Westerns, old sci-fi serials and sword and sorcery stuff. For me, though, it didn't work - apart from the ground-breaking visuals, music, the presence of Guinness and Cushing, I was underwhelmed. The writing, plotting, dialogue, character motivations, queasy incestuous undertones - I know that Luke doesn't know that Leia is his sister, but he's still initially romantically attracted to her (something conveniently brushed under the carpet later). The faux gay robot, the bleeping irritating dustbin one, the emphysemic villain with an inverted coal scuttle on his head. I disliked the franchise even more as it got nauseatingly cuter later with Yoda and dead-eyed teddy bears and stuff. It just wasn't for me, really. And that's never changed. And It's a strange phenomenon but as the movies got worse the more money they made and the more popular and prolific it all became.
Anyway, that's enough ranting from me for one day. Thanks again, Numinous20111. Appreciated.
sam peckinpah ending.
This sounds vaguely like One Eyed Jacks
I caught this recently on TV. I actually like the English movies mcclaghan made, wild geese ,north sea hijack and is it sea wolves with niven, Moore, peck and the reprobates of octogerian actors. But mixed feelings on this one, with movie not been sum of its parts.
I've covered North Sea Hijack and The Wild Geese on the channel, but not The Sea Wolves as yet. It's on my list. Thanks Graeme.
Another one I missed probably pissed out the far east
Sir, I salute you!
@@tonybush555 thanks some of us had to do it on Her majesty's expense 😋😋