CANNON MONTH: Hercules (1983)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This originally appeared on February 1, 2019 but if anything, I somehow am obsessed with this movie even more now than then. I love Hercules movies. From the Steve Reeves Hercules to the Bava helmed Hercules in the Haunted World, some of the most entertaining films I’ve watched have been about the adventures of the son […]
CANNON MONTH: House of Long Shadows (1983)
Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and John Carradine all in the same film? That’s the whole draw of Cannon’s House of Long Shadows, made by Pete Walker in one of the more chaste films of his career. He’d actually retired and was running a chain of theaters when Golan and Globus asked him to make […]
CANNON MONTH: Nana (1983)
Oh Cannon. You make an Emile Zola movie and it ends up being directed by Dan Wolman, who also made Up Your Anchor for Cannon and written by Marc Behm, who would write X-Ray for the studio. He also wrote the novel that Eye of the Beholder was made from, as well as The Beatles’ Help! And the result […]
CANNON MONTH: 10 to Midnight (1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: For an alternate take on this film, check out R. D Francis’ October 17, 2020 article. Producer Pancho Kohner had worked with Charles Bronson and director J. Lee Thompson several times, so when they purchased The Evil That Men Do, it seemed the perfect movie to pitch to Cannon, who wanted to make more films […]
CANNON MONTH: One More Chance (1983)
An amateur boxer and the nephew of famous boxer Jake LaMotta, John LaMotta shows up in a few other Cannon movies like Revenge of the Ninja, Ninja III: The Domination, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo and American Warrior, which all come from director Sam Firstenberg, who made One More Chance his first movie. Pete Bales (LaMotta) is a criminal fresh out of […]
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