Bronco Billy McCoy is the proud owner of a small traveling Wild West show. But the business isn’t doing too well: for the past six months he hasn’t paid his employees.
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Tag Archives: 1980s
Dark Age (1987) Arch Nicholson, John Jarratt, Nikki Coghill, Max Phipps, Adventure, Horror
In the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant crocodile that has been killing and eating the local populace.
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A Room with a View (1985) James Ivory, Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Drama, Romance
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy’s life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
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Prizzi’s Honor (1985) John Huston, Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Charley Partanna is a hit-man who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime syndicate families in the country. Unbeknownst to Charley,the Prizzis just hired Irene Walker, a free-lance killer, to eliminate someone who double-crossed them.
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The Nature of the Beast (1988) Franco Rosso, Lynton Dearden, Paul Simpson, Tony Melody, Drama
A boy reads about the attacks of a unknown animal on livestock in the town. He plans to run his own investigation. The so called beast however is also used as a metaphor for every day problems the townsfolk face.
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Jeogdoeui ggot / Flower on the Equator (1983) Chang-ho Bae, Ahn Sung-ki, Mi-hie Jang, Kung-won Nam, Drama
Flower on the Equator is a suspense film with a hint of the classic Hitchcock film Rear Window, with its theme about the isolation of alienated people living in the city.
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Blunt: The Fourth Man (1986) John Glenister, Ian Richardson, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Williams, Drama
Sir Anthony Blunt, celebrated art historian and Surveyor of the Royal family’s pictures since 1945, was exposed in 1979 as a KGB traitor in Andrew Boyle’s book The Climate of Treason.
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Hedda Gabler (1981) David Cunliffe, Elizabeth Bell, Philip Bond, Kathleen Byron, Drama
Beautiful and willful Hedda Gabler, a very ambitious and controlling woman, enters into a loveless marriage with the respectable but dull George Tesman to insure herself economic and social security.
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Johanna D’Arc of Mongolia (1989) Ulrike Ottinger, Badema, Lydia Billiet, Christoph Eichhorn, Comedy, Drama
A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.
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Chin mun bat jeung / Notorious Eight (1981) Chung Sun, Tony Liu, Kuan Tai Chen, Lieh Lo, Action, Crime, Adventure
Old style kung fu films always had brothel, restaurant, and of course gambling scenes. Gambling films became popular in the early 80s, so it made sense to have an intense poker game standoff between early good guy, kung fu star Chen Kuan Tai, and early villain, kung fu star Lo Lieh.
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