The 101 Action Movies brings me another one of my favorites. Fresh off the success of Predator, McTiernan took Bruce Willis, then mostly known for the TV series Moonlighting and launched him into superstardom as everyman police officer John McClane, who just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Flying out…
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Our Man Flint (1966) – Daniel Mann
That didn’t take long. The 101 Action Movies list, currently has me in the swinging 60s, and it didn’t take long back then for American filmmakers to take on the super-spy genre, they’d already done it on television, but nothing could seem to take on the sheer popularity of the UK import of James Bond….
The Mind Reels 