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Showing posts with label 1984. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1984. Show all posts

Saturday, December 24, 2016

Rockin' With A Bullet (1984)














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This film could easily be considered a blaxploitation film. It's equipped with just about everything that represented the era. It even has an original soundtrack score where there are a couple of nuggets from the sounds of 1980s RnB.

Crime lords with fancy cars, pretty women and huge bankrolls mix it up around the world. Champagne, cocaine and willing women are the rewards for fast living, but the underworld comes with risks all its own. This film is the initial offering in the series of Sugarhill films (Deadfall, Dealin' Dirty, and Retribution).

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Booker (1984, TV Movie)

















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Booker tells the story of Booker T. Washington, who, as a young slave, dreams of learning to read and write. After the Civil War frees him, Booker is forced to work long hours in a salt furnace to help his family survive. But with hard work and persistence, Booker finds a way to learn and gain the freedom that comes with education. 

Thursday, July 21, 2016

The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins (1984, TV Movie)













































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In his fifth TV-movie, Gary Collins is a UN diplomat's son who continually daydreams about various movie heroes, ranging from Dwight Cloudclimber (sort of a miniaturized Luke "Star Wars" Skywalker) and Alabama Smith (who is not unlike Indiana "Raiders of the Lost Ark" Jones) to a James Bond-type and General Patton, all of whom help this junior Walter Mitty keep a step or two ahead of secret agents trying to retrieve a packet of documents he inadvertently came to possess.