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Post by progressiveelement on Jul 28, 2019 19:22:08 GMT
Here's da SPOILER-FILLED review:
" Victor Hale (Rosey Grier), a blues musician, kills a pimp who turned his sister into a prostitute and carved up her face. Victor ends up in prison where he is abused by the prison guards. He is released and goes out on a spree, nearly killing all the prison guards that abused him (one of them being Aldo Ray) dressed in full riot gear and equipped with a "Riot Glove", a five pound device that can literally tear a car apart. Debt-ridden bounty hunter Sam Kellog (John Saxon), who owes his ex-wife six months back alimony, takes on nickel and dime skip tracing jobs to make ends meet (We first see him bust gay phony check-writer Nicholas Worth for a $300 reward). Sam is offered $20,000 by the Prison Guard Association to capture (if not kill) Victor. Needing the money, Sam jumps at the chance, but becomes disillusioned after learning Victor's story. The majority of the screenplay is about Sam's pathetic life, losing at cards with the help of Jack Carter's cheating wife Joanna Cassidy, worrying about where his next paycheck is coming from, working out time to see his little daughter and having to deal with rival bounty hunter Harry Iverson (Michael Pataki). Director Ross Hagen (a frequent Fred Olen Ray collaborator; he passed away in 2011), who has acted in numerous genre films including WONDER WOMEN (1973), BAD CHARLESTON CHARLIE (1973), STAR SLAMMER (1986) BLOOD GAMES (1989) as well as directing and producing other films (such as MERCHANTS OF DEATH - 1988; and MURDER ON THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD - 2005), infuses this film with a sense of humanity up to a point where we care about both Sam and Victor. While this film is no big deal, it does entertain, especially during the last duel between Sam and Victor (where Victor gives Sam the Glove to make the contest even) and the general ambience of the sleazy 70's lifestyles. Both Saxon and Grier put in good turns (Saxon has never had a meatier role since). Also starring Hoke Howell, Frances E. Williams, Keenan Wynn, Howard Honig and Joan Blondell. The cast alone is worth the price of admission. The cinematography was by Gary Graver. Also known as BLOOD MAD and LETHAL TERMINATOR. A Media Home Entertainment Release. Rated R."
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Post by dividavi on Jul 31, 2019 13:39:49 GMT
I was waiting in the yearly immigration line and I was talking to a guy in his late 70s who was originally from Cincinnati. He moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1960s and did the work for various props used in TV and movies. He told me that there was very much a caste system in Hollywood and that workers in labor unions were forbidden from interacting with the performers. It was a strict hierarchy with arcane rules. He told me that he knew Robert Uhrich (a good guy) and had dated Joanna Cassidy (who appeared in The Glove). He said that he palled around with Mark Harman. As you might expect, I asked him about a great sidekick of Robert Uhrich: Richard Jaekel (shown with Henry Fonda and Paul Newman). My partner-in-line said Jaeckel was an asshole, his words not mine. I never before heard of The Glove, a movie. It's got a rather catchy, though stupid, opening song performed by Ernest Andrews. The Glove introduced Misty Bruce to show business but that's her sole credit. Hell of an introduction. Hello. goodbye. And Candy Bowen, what happened to her?
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Jul 31, 2019 17:56:25 GMT
I was waiting in the yearly immigration line and I was talking to a guy in his late 70s who was originally from Cincinnati. He moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1960s and did the work for various props used in TV and movies. He told me that there was very much a caste system in Hollywood and that workers in labor unions were forbidden from interacting with the performers. It was a strict hierarchy with arcane rules. He told me that he knew Robert Uhrich (a good guy) and had dated Joanna Cassidy (who appeared in The Glove). He said that he palled around with Mark Harman. As you might expect, I asked him about a great sidekick of Robert Uhrich: Richard Jaekel (shown with Henry Fonda and Paul Newman). My partner-in-line said Jaeckel was an asshole, his words not mine. I never before heard of The Glove, a movie. It's got a rather catchy, though stupid, opening song performed by Ernest Andrews. The Glove introduced Misty Bruce to show business but that's her sole credit. Hell of an introduction. Hello. goodbye. And Candy Bowen, what happened to her? Re: Misty Bruce and Cancy Bowen: My first guess would be.....they didn't like the casting couch.
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Post by dividavi on Jul 31, 2019 23:19:40 GMT
I was waiting in the yearly immigration line and I was talking to a guy in his late 70s who was originally from Cincinnati. He moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1960s and did the work for various props used in TV and movies. He told me that there was very much a caste system in Hollywood and that workers in labor unions were forbidden from interacting with the performers. It was a strict hierarchy with arcane rules. He told me that he knew Robert Uhrich (a good guy) and had dated Joanna Cassidy (who appeared in The Glove). He said that he palled around with Mark Harman. As you might expect, I asked him about a great sidekick of Robert Uhrich: Richard Jaekel (shown with Henry Fonda and Paul Newman). My partner-in-line said Jaeckel was an asshole, his words not mine. I forgot the most important bit of information/gossip/slander I derived from the guy-in-line. He told me that Avery Brooks, lead character of Star-Trek Deep Space Nine was racist against white people and would only work with black crew members (labor unions, not Federation) unless it couldn't be avoided. The guy-in-line said he was one of only three white crew on the set. I don't know how true is this information but anybody who would deride Richard Jaekel must be regarded with extreme skepticism. Anyway, I always considered Deep Space Nine to be unwatchable shit. Wouldn't it be cool if there was a reunion of cast members from The Glove? John Saxon, Joanna Cassidy are still alive and I'd love to learn more about Misty Bruce and Candy Bowen.
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Post by dividavi on Aug 1, 2019 2:45:50 GMT
One thing the 1979 movie The Glove made clear is that gloves were and remain an important part of our culture. That point had been made a decade earlier a decade earlier by artist Jim Steranko in his Nick Fury - Agent of SHIELD series for Marvel comics. Arch-Villain Baron Wolfgang von Strucker possessed a metallic glove with vast power called Satan's Claw.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Aug 2, 2019 9:55:56 GMT
One of the great things about the film is that it was made at a time when you could still portray "gays" as the disgusting buffoons they really are. Can't do that anymore. It's not politically correct, or something. Wouldn't you agree, Toasted Cheese?
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Aug 2, 2019 10:32:09 GMT
One of the great things about the film is that it was made at a time when you could still portray "gays" as the disgusting buffoons they really are. Can't do that anymore. It's not politically correct, or something. Wouldn't you agree, Toasted Cheese ? Yeah! But we can still portray bigoted Christians for the disgusting buffoons they are...
That movie looks hilarious. John Saxon was a real cutie pie. He can handcuff me any day. I love a man that's rough and tumble.... Yeah, I kind of figured you for a catcher instead of a pitcher.
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