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Arde baby, arde (1971)
Classic spaghetti western
Found this on a 50 movie pack of "Gunslinger Classics", I wish it was a decent widescreen transfer but I've found gem after gem on the collection, even in 4:3 pan n scan. this is one of them.
A classic line from the film, when the undertaker's wagon runs into such a pile of corpses that the wagon stops dead, the undertaker that rescued the infant Johnny says "A mountain Johnny, beautiful mountain of gold. Oh johnny we are truly rich, we have all the gold of Yucca and now this. Why there must be a hundred of them, maybe a thousand... ...how beautiful they are."
Worthy of the genre and even a morbid extension of such
MacGyver: Countdown (1986)
MacGyver Countdown is the same plot as "Speed" 8 years earlier
I happen to be watching MacGyver 1st season and Countdown is so similar to speed I just had to check to see which came first. Surprise, MacGyver did!
Let see, ex-bomb squad guy gone psycho, check large group of people at risk on moving vehicle, check partner get's blown away, check ransom money disappears through false back, check
Of course here, since this is MacGyver, instead of fooling the mad bomber with fake video and letting it blow, he psyches the bomber out and defuses the bomb.
of course that's not really an option with a cruise ship, the mad bomber was just SO lucky that they were heading into a typhoon named Henry so they could not clear the ship.
I do think that having the mad bomber right there, working the investigation was far better then speed.
Apparently we should be mining MacGyver episodes for plot lines... your next action movie, the hero will not use guns, just a swiss army knife
;-)