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29 February 1980 (Finland)
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Mike Catton was once a world-renowned construction foreman (at least in the construction world), but...
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Engaging little "B"
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Lee Majors | ... | Mike Catton | |
| Jennifer O'Neill | ... | Cass Cassidy | |
| Art Carney | ... | Pignose Moran | |
| Harris Yulin | ... | Eddie Cassidy | |
| George Kennedy | ... | Big Lew Cassidy | |
| Redmond Gleeson | ... | Harry | |
| Terry Kiser | ... | Valentino | |
| Richard Lynch | ... | Dancer | |
| Ben Marley | ... | The Kid | |
| Roger E. Mosley | ... | Lionel | |
| Albert Salmi | ... | Tank | |
| Robert Tessier | ... | Cherokee | |
| Hunter von Leer | ... | Surfer | |
| R.G. Armstrong | ... | Kellin | |
| Joe De Nicola | ... | Tom |
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Stunt player A.J. Bakunas died doubling George Kennedy in a fall that killed Kennedy's character. The scene had been shot safely with the stunt man jumping from the ninth floor of the construction site/shooting location in Lexington, KY. At the time he held the record for high falls, set while doubling Burt Reynolds in Hooper (1978), but when rival Dar Robinson later beat his distance in a helicopter jump at Knott's Berry Farm, A. J. and Lee Majors returned to the star's home state to re-shoot the opening of the movie with Bakunas actually jumping from the top of the building. He fell correctly onto an airbag, but the airbag split on impact. His father was with him at the time of his death, but his mother never visited A. J. on set because she always feared he would be killed. Ironically, the completed structure, Kincaid Towers, became home to a life insurance company that eventually went bankrupt.
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Mike Catton:
Isn't there a law against these guys all being in the same state?
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Referenced in Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend' (2004) (V)
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Lee Majors made several pictures during his stardom period of "The Six Million Dollar Man." Most weren't particularly good ("The Norseman" was the absolute pits), but this is a neat little surprise. It's along the same lines as "The Magnificent Seven" in that it brings together a disparate group of professionals in order to achieve a seemingly impossible goal--in this case they're a construction crew that has to finish off the top nine stories of a building in the short span of three weeks. The tone is a bit lighter than usual for this kind of film, with some welcome humorous touches, notably the antics of Terry Kiser and Albert Salmi as a libidinous steelworker and a prankish crane operator, respectively. Majors was never an actor with much range, but here he's actually quite good as the crew leader and plays well off the other actors. The movie has a roster of first-rate character actors whose presence raises its interest level several notches. It's also one of the few films where veteran heavy Richard Lynch gets to play against type as a good guy (albeit a tough one), and he's quite effective at it. Jennifer O'Neill is still as beautiful as ever and still can't act to save her life, but she doesn't drag the picture down as she did, for example, in the John Wayne western "Rio Lobo", in which she was so astoundingly inept it was actually embarrassing to watch her; she's better than that here. Director Steve Carver paid his dues with Roger Corman, and while he never attained the levels of success as fellow Corman alumni Martin Scorsese or Jonathan Demme, he was usually a more than competent filmmaker, and he's done a good job of putting this one together. It's well paced, with a few twists and turns, and the cast seems to be having a good time. You could do worse than rent this on a night when you have nothing much to do.