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14 October 1983 (USA)
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The one weekend of the year you won't want to miss. more
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The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a...
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Beaten To Death
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2 wins
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(3 articles)
Five: Rutger Hauer Films Where He Is Not An Android
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(From LateFilmFull. 12 April 2009, 5:36 PM, PDT)
ABC Revisiting Ben Hur
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complicated revenge story
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Rutger Hauer | ... | John Tanner | |
| John Hurt | ... | Lawrence Fassett | |
| Craig T. Nelson | ... | Bernard Osterman | |
| Dennis Hopper | ... | Richard Tremayne | |
| Chris Sarandon | ... | Joseph Cardone | |
| Meg Foster | ... | Ali Tanner | |
| Helen Shaver | ... | Virginia Tremayne | |
| Cassie Yates | ... | Betty Cardone | |
| Sandy McPeak | ... | Stennings | |
| Christopher Starr | ... | Steve Tanner | |
| Burt Lancaster | ... | Maxwell Danforth | |
| Cheryl Carter | ... | Marcia Heller | |
| John Bryson | ... | Honeymoon Groom | |
| Anne Haney | ... | Honeymoon Bride | |
| Kristen Peckinpah | ... | Tremayne's Secretary |
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Mission CIA (Philippines: English title)
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103 min | USA:116 min (director's cut)
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Iceland:16 |
Finland:K-16 (2000) |
Finland:K-18 (1983) |
Norway:15 (re-rating) |
Norway:16 (original rating) |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 (video re-rating) (2004) |
UK:18 (original rating) |
UK:18 (video rating) (1986) |
USA:R (certificate #27156) |
West Germany:16 |
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Sam Peckinpah was fired when he refused to re-edit the film after it was screened for a test audience on 25 May 1983 and met with a confused and extremely mixed reaction. Producers Peter S. Davis and William N. Panzer took over the editing with the assistance of editor Edward M. Abroms, drastically altering opening and ending sequences.
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Miscellaneous: When Tanner is warning the others to get out of the camper, he writes "Get out now". Richard is reading it aloud as "Get out of the camper now".
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Lawrence Fassett:
John, time for a face to face.
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Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Operation Double 007 (#6.8)" (1993)
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I was not sure what to expect from this when I watched it, but what I felt after seeing it was not that I'd just seen a great film. This was Sam Peckinpah's last, and while I'm not any fan of his I know he had done far better. John Hurt plays a CIA operative (I guess) and his wife is killed by order of the head honcho, as played by Burt Lancaster. Some time later, Hurt has devised a way to get back at his old boss via a TV talk show host, of sorts, as played by Rutger Hauer, who has a get-together at his place every year for some friends of his. However, these friends of his have now been presented to him as possible Soviet spies, and he's been shown taped footage (that of course, only allows him to see seemingly incriminating conversations) to prove that. So now he's housing some Soviet spies for the weekend and things turn tense and get out of hand, and so on. Meg Foster, who plays Hauer's wife, gets away with her son & their crossbows and comes back later for some target practice with the real thing. The rest of the guests pile into an RV and are heading for the hills but they won't get far. And then Hurt manages to kidnap Hauer's wife, son, & dog, in order to finally get what he really wants, to expose his old boss. It's not a bad story, I guess, but it's very confusing and complicated and completely lost me a few times, because (I'm guessing here) there are things that the film seems to assume that you know, as in, you've read the book by Robert Ludlum, which I hadn't. Of course, this was also Peckinpah's last film & if you know anything about him, he had his problems, and maybe this is the end result of some of that too, who knows. I wouldn't call this terrible, but it's certainly not very well executed and could have been far better in the right hands. 5 out of 10.