CANNON MONTH: Duet for One (1986)
Duet for One is based on the life of conductor Daniel Barenboim and his wife, cellist Jacqueline du Pré, and Cannon originally bought this back when they made The Wicked Lady, as it was a movie that Faye Dunaway and her husband Terry O’Neill had wanted to make. A stage play by Tom Kempinski, who also […]
CANNON MONTH: Firewalker (1986)
Chuck Norris told the Chicago Tribune, “When I got crucified in my first film, Good Guys Wear Black, I went to Steve McQueen. He said the bottom line is if you get the best reviews in the world and the movie bombs, you’re not going to get work. But if it’s a huge success, whether the […]
CANNON MONTH: Castaway (1986)
Lucy Irvine wrote the book Castaway all about the year that she spent living with writer Gerald Kingsland on the isolated island of Tuin, between New Guinea and Australia. Director Nicolas Roeg made this adaption, working from a script by Allan Scott. Irvine is played by Amanda Donahue, while Kingsland is Oliver Reed. Donahue said of […]
CANNON MONTH: 52 Pick-Up (1986)
As I brought up during The Ambassador, Cannon had been hoping to make Elmore Leonard’s 52 Pick-Up into a movie since 1974. John Frankenheimer read the book and wanted to direct a more faithful adaptation, which almost happened in Pittsburgh, which would have stood in for the Detroit location of the novel. It ended up being shot […]
CANNON MONTH: Avenging Force (1986)
Originally a sequel to Invasion U.S.A., Avenging Force got horrible reviews upon release but why shouldn’t it? It’s a Cannon action movie made for people who wanted to watch and rent action movies. It’s also absolutely berserk in the best of ways, made by a dream team of director Sam Firstenberg (Ninja III: The Domination, Breakin’ 2: Electric […]
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