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Title: Highlander (1986)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Christopher Lambert | ... | Connor MacLeod | |
| Roxanne Hart | ... | Brenda Wyatt | |
| Clancy Brown | ... | Kurgan | |
| Sean Connery | ... | Ramirez | |
| Beatie Edney | ... | Heather (as Beattie Edney) | |
| Alan North | ... | Lt. Frank Moran | |
| Sheila Gish | ... | Rachel Ellenstein | |
| Jon Polito | ... | Det. Walter Bedsoe | |
| Hugh Quarshie | ... | Sunda Kastagir | |
| Christopher Malcolm | ... | Kirk Matunas | |
| Peter Diamond | ... | Fasil | |
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Billy Hartman | ... | Dugal MacLeod |
| James Cosmo | ... | Angus MacLeod | |
| Celia Imrie | ... | Kate | |
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Alistair Findlay | ... | Chief Murdoch |
In New York City, the owner of a sophisticated antique shop Russell Edwin Nash is challenged to a sword fight in the parking lot of the Madison Square Garden by a man called Iman Fasil that is beheaded by Russell. He hides his sword and is arrested by the police while leaving the stadium. Russell recalls his life in the sixteenth century in Scotland, when he is Connor MacLeod, and is fatally wounded in a battle against another Clan. However, he surprisingly survives and his Clan believes he has a pact with the devil and expels him from their lands. Then he meets Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez, who explains that he is immortal unless he is beheaded. Further, the immortals dispute a game killing each other and in the end only one survives receiving a prize with the power of the other immortals. Russell is released by the police, but the snoopy forensic agent Brenda J. Wyatt is attracted by the case since she found fragments of an ancient Katana and follows Russell. But the also ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Continuing my plan to watch every Sean Connery movie in order, I come to Highlander (1986)
Plot In A Paragraph: A group of immortals, who can only die via decapitation, duel through the centuries.
I love Highlander. Always have. Always will. It will always be a disappointment to me none of the sequels or the TV Shows lived up to the potential this universe offered.
Playing the Egyptian Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez (with his normal accent of course) Connery Looks to be having a blast in his second mentor role in a row. He was only on set for 7 days (he had a bet, which he lost, with director Russell Mulcahy he would not finish his scenes in time and had a lucrative clause in place if he didn't) and his screen time is likely to be under twenty minutes, but his presence looms large in the movie
Considering he could barely speak English, Christopher Lambert (one of the nicest celebs I've ever met) is great, Clancy Brown's Kurgan is one of my favourite movie bad guys and Beatrice Edney is gorgeous. Oh and the soundtrack is by my favourite band of all time Queen.
Amazingly Highlander tanked at the domestic box office grossing only $5 million dollars. Highlander found its audience on video, and the rest is history. As for Connery, after his the time away from the screen, it would seem like his luck had not improved with his reinvention as the older, wiser mentor. Despite two great performances, the movies still did little business. That would all change with his next movie though.