BROADCASTS.com

b'

Movie Meltdown - Episode 530

This episode we talk with Austin Trunick, author of \\u201cThe Cannon Film Guide\\u201d, an in-depth series of books about the legendary 1980s B-movie studio, The Cannon Group.\\xa0

And as we discuss the art and influence of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, we also address\\u2026 The Apple, renting horror movies, Death Wish 2, Frank Langella, Exterminator 2, Sho Kosugi, Vestron Video, there\\u2019s so much craziness going on there, Chuck Norris, a post-apocalyptic universe, 10 to Midnight, the yellow Power Ranger, Michael Dudikoff, Masters of the Universe, William Sachs, Enter the Ninja, has one of the higher body counts, Charles Bronson, Avenging Force, a healthy supply of guys who could do flips, Flashdance, they\\u2019re dressed\\u2026 basically as The Village People, unrelated ninja, Skeletor, re-dubbing European porno movies, the hero shoots the villain point-blank\\u2026 with a bazooka, Dolph Lundgren, he had already moved on to another project, Franco Nero, Breakin\', violent action movies, that was based on a stage-musical written in Israel\\u2026 in Hebrew, there are so many ninja movies, Empire International Pictures, Invasion U.S.A., Mario Van Peebles, with a dubbed Texas accent, you travel five-thousand miles\\u2026 around that corner, Ninja III: The Domination,\\xa0the threads of society are falling apart as the years go on, River Of Death, Revenge of the Ninja, and during the screening\\u2026 the audience actually boo\\u2019ed, Death Wish 3, Robert Ginty, high confidence in the product he was producing, Christopher Walken, wearing a crazy leather-studded outfit and at least make it releasable.\\xa0

\\u201c...yeah, they were very, very good at selling - their movies.\\u201d

For more on the book, go to: http://www.cannonfilmguide.com/

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CannonFilmGuide/\\xa0

And Twitter: https://twitter.com/CannonFilmGuide