Tagged: Burt Young

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Amityville II: The Possession (1982)

When the Lutz family sold their story to author Jay Anson of their account purchasing a home in Amityville, Long Island, that they left after 28 days due to demonic goings-on, they neglected to...

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Back to School (1986)

Stand-up comedian extraordinaire Rodney Dangerfield (Caddyshack, The Projectionist) stars as Thornton Melon, who has made millions with his own wildly successful Tall & Fat line of clothing stores. His ungrateful, philandering wife (Barbeau, The Cannonball Run) isn’t...

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Rocky IV (1985)

“I must break you”. At the time wrote the words above are uttered, it’s hard to discern whether writer/director Sylvester Stallone was speaking through Rocky’s fiercest opponent yet, Ivan Drago (Lundgren, Masters of the Universe),...

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Rocky III (1982)

Plans for a third Rocky film were underway during Rocky II‘s post-production. Stallone wanted a trilogy and wanted to begin filming within 18 months so he wouldn’t be too old. Bill Conti began composing...

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Rocky (1976)

The seed of inspiration for Rocky was planted on March 24, 1975. Sylvester Stallone attended a closed-circuit Los Angeles movie theater presentation of Chuck Wepner fighting Muhammad Ali. Severe underdog Wepner wasn’t expected to...

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Rocky II (1979)

As Sylvester Stallone approached closer to completing production on Rocky, he conceived that he would like to make it a trilogy, if it proved successful. It was too difficult to relate the full story...

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Convoy (1978)

It’s painful to see a once mighty filmmaker like Sam Peckinpah fail, especially when it is a catastrophe on this level.  Convoy is perhaps one of the weirdest of the late Seventies films about truckers and...