A Louisiana National Guard unit led by Peter Coyote set off on a training exercise through the bayou backwoods. They’re joined by a corporal from El Paso (Powers Boothe) who was kicked out of the Texas National Guard and has a general distaste for rednecks.
Also along for the maneuver is a sharp wit (Keith […]

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Academy Award winner of Best Picture for 1950 opens with the toast of Broadway, Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), being bestowed the prestigious Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement. Also at the awards ceremony is Karen Richards (Celeste Holm), wife of a playwright, who recalls the night Eve was nothing more than a starving fan waiting […]

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A drifter who answers to the name Chaney (Charles Bronson) hops off a cargo train in a Southern town beset by the Depression, where he follows a crowd of men into a warehouse and catches a bareknuckled pick-up fight.
Afterwards, Chaney approaches the losing street fighter’s manager - Spencer “Speed” Weed (James Coburn) - in […]

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After the success of The Warriors, director Walter Hill was probably offered every gang project in development, but chose to make a lyrical western about the original gangsters, the James-Younger gang.
During the opening bank robbery, the punchy Ed Miller (Dennis Quaid) blasts a teller and triggers a shoot out. Jesse James (James Keach) kicks […]

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