a long ride from hell
a long ride from hell (1968) – mike' s take on the movies ………. rediscovering cinema' s past
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ride to hell: retribution is a beat' em up / third person shooter released in june 2013 .
a long ride from hell camillo bazzoni (mafia connection). the screenplay for a long ride from hell was co - written by steve reeves (his first and only screenwriting credit) and roberto natale, who’s other notable screenwriting credits include bloody pit of horror, kill baby kill, lisa and devil and watch me when i kill. the screenplay was adapted from a novel written by gordon d. shirreffs titled ‘judas gun’. the cinematographer on a long ride from hell was enzo barboni, who would go onto becoming a director in his own right. directing spaghetti western comedies like they call me trinity… and trinity is still my name! the composer on a long ride from hell was carlo savina, who’s other notable scores include naked you die, the legend of blood castle, lisa and the devil and the killer reserved nine seats .
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hercules himself, steve reeves, lives for your death in a long ride from hell, an italian / spanish spaghetti western that proved to be the peplum star’s only effort as a producer, his only spaghetti western and also his final film .
our filmmaking friend eric zaldivar is back with a new killcount supercut, this one counting up all the bodies left behind in camillo bazzoni’s 1968 italo - american western a long ride from hell (italian: vivo per la tua morte, which means, literally, i live for your death! ”) .
when the peplum genre had been ousted by the spaghetti western, steve reeves (‘the original hercules’) had returned to his home country, but a few years later, he was back in italy to try his luck with the new genre. a long ride from hell was supposed to be his glorious come - back movie. he would not only star in it, but also co - produce it and contribute to the script, based on a western novel by gordon shirreffs, the judas gun. but instead of a glorious come - back, it became a disastrous goodbye. a long ride from hell would be his swan song as an actor .
ride to hell switches from shooting to melee combat frequently. unlike some other games, though, it doesn' t do anything to make you do the same, so there' s nothing stopping you from simply shooting enemies that try to engage you up close .
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off model: the character models look cheap and dated, with stiff, plastic - looking hair. jake himself looks a little like eddie riggs from brutal legend, but ride to hell lacks that game' s intentionally cartoony graphical charm .
overdrawn at the blood bank: whether from gunshot wounds or being smacked with fists, long combos make characters practically explode in a fountain of blood .
reeves — who financed a long ride from hell himself, co - produced, and even co - wrote the screenplay — appeared here as a cowboy named mike sturges, who, along with his younger brother roy (ivan scratuglia) end up going after horse thieves who’ve stolen some ponies from the sturges family. (reeves named his character sturges as a tribute to director john sturges, who directed one of his favorite westerns, 1960’s the magnificent seven) .
a long ride from hell is not a particularly great movie, yet it offers some shallow entertainment and is full of names that should mean a lot to the genre insider. i would say it' s worth watching. the dvd on the other hand i can wholeheartedly recommend, mostly because of the one hour dick palmer interview which is almost better than the movie itself. wild east offers a really good presentation of this movie on dvd, that should not be missing from a collectors' shelf .
extras for this release include a image gallery that has music from the film playing in the background, a trailer for the film (1 minute 1 second – 4: 3 full frame), a segment titled ‘at home with steve reeves’ (13 minutes 45 seconds – 4: 3 full frame in italian and english with english subtitles) and a lengthy interview with mimmo palmara (57 minutes 57 seconds – 4: 3 full frame, in italian with english subtitles). the segment with steve reeves has nothing to do with a long hard ride from hell or any of his other films. it is essentially a day in life with steve as some fans hang out with at his home. the interview with mimmo palmara covers the majority of the films he worked on. other topics include working with steve reeves, how he got his alias dick palmer, his friendship with sergio leone and stunt work. the image gallery, the segment with steve reeves and interview with mimmo palmara all previously appeared on wild east’s region 1 dvd release of a long hard ride from hell. also included with this release are trailers for family honor, slithis, horror high, stigma, rivals, the black clansman, the carrier, tomcats and they’re the gestapo warriors. overall code red gives a long hard ride from hell its best release to date .
“it’s been a hell of a ride”: damon first said these words to elena in the season 1 episode “blood brothers. ” it was right after he told her the story of how stefan forced him to become a vampire. it might’ve been the reason damon hated his brother for all those years, but as he told elena, “i suppose i should thank him; it’s been a hell of a ride. ” eight seasons later, that statement stands, and in fact, it’s one he’ll make again by the end of the hour .
reeves did his own stunts on this picture too, since there were no italian stunt men big enough to double for him, but he also ended up aggravating a shoulder injury he’d received during a chariot scene in an earlier hercules film. unfortunately, a long ride from hell didn’t do as well as reeves had hoped at the box office and he took a financial bath on the picture. he ended up retiring from the movie business that same year, at age 42, after appearing in 18 films during his career .
opinion: from the first minute this film suffers from its very tv - ish looking aspect ratio, which to me personally is always a bad sign, but not necessarily. a long ride to hell starts out like any other american western and develops into a little intricate story with 2 - dimensional villians lacking of any backstory and an emotionless star, who might look handsome in a close up but is unable to carry the movie. luckily, the film is a rather quick experience, with a few shoot outs thrown in for good measure, some decent camera work by barboni and even a short moment of love! it would be easy to dismiss a long ride from hell as a failed effort to copy a standard american western or as a vehicle for reeves, but in the end that' s what it looks like, despite the input of some of the genre' s bigger names. it is a solid movie, from a technical perspective, but the script is a shame and the movie' s over before one could ask
why, what, when, how
. for the genre fan it' s definitely a must see, if only to fill yet another gap. all in all though, it' s not a very great film unfortunately .
was even more of a departure from the time line of the rest of your films .
not long after returning from the war and joining the devil' s hand, cook steals a nuclear bomb and plans to set it off so america will
bleed the way [ he ] bled
in vietnam .
watch it here, or better yet, buy the dvd from wild east productions .
looking for a copy? i snagged a blu ray release from code red. another nice addition to the vault here at mike’s take .
a long ride from hell starred montana - born bodybuilder steve reeves, who had become famous for his physique in the 1940s, winning a “mr. america” contest in 1947, when he was 21, then becoming the first “mr. world, ” and then was named “mr. universe” (twice, in 1948 and 1950). we’re not sure where you can go after that, galactically. he owned a gym in miami for a while, called the steve reeves athletic club, and began making the transition to acting in movies, as you do. his first film role was as a baby - faced police detective in ed wood’s jail bait in 1954, and that same year appeared as jane powell’s health - freak boyfriend in athena .
even though the main sub plot revolves around a heist were gold is stolen from a train. this film is first and foremost a tale about revenge. one area where this film stands out from many of its contemporaries are the scenes at yuma penitentiary in which the prisoners are often at the mercy of the sadistic prison guards. from an action stand point this film also holds up very well. there are plenty of shoot outs, fist fights and even the stereo typical bar room brawl is thrown in for good measure. visually the film goes for a more stark style than the more typical operatic style that has become synonymous with the spaghetti western genre. performance wise the entire cast are great in their respective roles with spartaco conversi (the great silence), in the role of the lead prison guards being the film’s most memorable performance. another performance of note is rosalba neri (lady frankenstein) in the role of a prostitute. when all is said and done, a long ride from hell is a middle of the road spaghetti western that would have remained in obscurity if it were not for the presence of steve reeves in the title role this film .
jack bauer interrogation technique: jake' s favorite way of getting information from devil' s hand members .
code red presents a long hard ride from hell in an anamorphic widescreen that retains the film’s original aspect ratio. this film was previously released by wild east on dvd in 2009 and that release was not only non anamorphic, it also had combing and pal to ntsc conversion issues. for this release code red have created a brand new hi def transfer that blows away all previous releases of this film. code red’s transfer has been flagged for progressive playback. colors look strong and remain consistent throughout. black levels look very good and details look sharp. also code red’s dvd release is a dual layer presentation that has no problems with compression, edge enhancement is kept in check and the image remains stable throughout. it should be noted that there is some very mild instances of print debris .
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aeneas leads escapees from the trojan war to new land in italy, and must deal with new threats to his people .
reeves is going to find himself on the run from both the law, preston and bounty hunter / spaghetti western favorite aldo sambrell. it won’t be long before reeves turns the tables as he rides a trail of revenge. this is of course going to culminate in a much anticipated showdown with a fortune in gold at stake amidst the double dealings and back shooting hombres that populate this above average italian oater with a clean shaven reeves looking nothing like the hercules character he scored a major hit with worldwide .
there is so much to love about this hour. sure, you could say i’m on a bit of a high because, oh, i don’t know, katherine is now the hbic in hell, but that’s only one reason i’m madly in love with this episode. let’s start where we always do, with a trip down memory lane .
given your build and how little you' re wearing, i can' t imagine they used a stunt double for you in all those shots. it' s obviously you. was there any concern for your safety with this long underwater filming ?
i wish some of these peplum flicks would be “saved” from neglect and issued on blu myself. i have pre ordered erik and look forward to my copy arriving. reviewed the film itself a while back which gave me the chance to show off an original one sheet from my collection .
? maybe you know nothing of reeves or his various guises. still, film fans will recognize his bearded machismo from such classics as
“take off to street music”: run - d. m. c. ’s “rock box” video rocked from the floor up to the ceiling
picture, there was another mr universe who hit the big time as the titular mythological brawler in a low budget peplum. steve reeves parlayed his success as a bodybuilder into a boom period as star of various sword and sandal adventures from the 1950s onward .
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suggests he was a close friend of william, and not a maternal uncle .
when that genre really exploded many people got involved, but it never bothered me. alan steele was italian and my stunt double in one of my films. i forgot what his real name was but it was a very long name, so he took an american name. i believe he made a couple of the reasonably low hercules films .
previously released by wild east in a pal - converted, non - anamorphic 1. 66: 1 transfer, a long ride from hell has been reissued by code red releasing in an anamorphic 1. 78: 1 transfer mastered in high definition. in seemingly the reverse of what we have come to expect from hd transfers of cult films, the colors here are bolder (with the skintones looking suitably bronzed for the sun - scorched settings of the bulk of the film; the film takes a nice detour into mossy, misty woods when mike hunts down another of maynard’s partners). the contrasts are also superior with the interiors looking believably lit compared to the brighter, somewhat washed - out pal master. the framing works for the most part (and was likely the choice of the american rights holder cinerama releasing; the film would have been projected at 1. 85: 1 theatrically in the u. s .). the english mono audio is fine throughout. an italian dvd was released last year by 01 distribution as part of a large spaghetti western line, but reports on several of the other titles in the series suggest that they are non - anamorphic and the scope titles have been reformatted to 1. 85: 1. lisa and the devil composer carlo savina’s score was recently released on cd by digitmovies .
the song—the stoic lament of a travelling rodeo pro—was originally recorded, in 1973, by terry stafford, a former rock - and - roll singer. chris ledoux, a real - life rodeo champion who also built a do - it - yourself career as a country act, cut a version a few years later, which found its way to strait, who made the song his own. stafford sang it with a crooner’s quaver, and ledoux intoned the lyrics wistfully, accompanied by a harmonica. by comparison, strait’s version, the only one that most people will ever hear, is masterfully plain. he occasionally approaches a syllable from above, using a mournful grace note, but he has an easy, conversational way of putting a melody across, as if he were singing to keep from talking .
and now for something completely different: the prologue sets the stage for it, with it jumping from biking to turret sequence, to brawler sequence, to a cutscene of your guy on a motorbike jumping over a huey helicopter. the game takes this further, with cutting out of the action to a cutscene or different style of play, or even a different area .
as part of the screener disc' s added content, we get an unusual fan interview with reeves (some italian tourists show up at his california home and discuss his career with him - very weird) as well as an hour long overview with actor domenico palmara (who played the turncoat sheriff). there is also a trailer for
strait has discovered that when he isn’t wearing a cowboy hat people often don’t realize that he is george strait. in san antonio, where he lives, he can usually visit restaurants unmolested, so long as he doesn’t smile too widely—he is famous for his smile, which is bright and crooked. one time, in key west, where he records, he was sitting outside the studio, naked from the neck up, when a woman accosted him. she said, “my husband says that george strait is in there, cutting a record, and i told him that can’t be true. why would he cut a record in this little place? ”
behind the waterfall, stefan finds elena’s coffin. as cade tells him, “i can see why you both love her. she’s a beautiful soul. made dimmer perhaps by her association with the two of you. ” (if this didn’t take you guys back to isobel telling elena she was doomed so long as she had a salvatore on each arm, i don’t know what will. )
steve reeves was born in glasgow, montana, a healthy and robust child of welsh, irish, german and english heritage, on january 21, 1926. his father was a rancher who also did carpentry and was a contractor. when steve was only six months old his mother entered him in his first contest in which he received the title of
most healthiest baby
in danials county. by the age of three, reeves was able to ride horseback on his own - the beginning of a lifelong love of horses .
she was a yugoslavian girl who was working in rome and had done a few small parts .
rating, it is solid, if ultimately superficial, western entertainment. you may not know steve reeves from anything other than the bicep rippling efforts of his sword and sandal past .
disproportionate retribution: start a gunfight in a casino and the police dispatches a few dozen officers armed only with pistols and batons. steal a bike and an attack helicopter tries to gun you down .
with robert taylor which was a roman film. we used a lot of costumes from that film for the extras in my films. they made special costumes for the main stars for every picture. but they do have warehouses of costumes for greek pictures they can fall back on .
incredibly durable enemies: it takes roughly an entire clip from a rifle to kill a single enemy, unless you aim for the head, which only requires one bullet. this ensures that the elite mooks immune to headshots take about half the ammo in the known universe to fell .
action prologue: a really confusing one at that, filled with a turret section, a qte fist fight, and jake putting bullets into colt' s head. all of this is in random flashbacks while jake' s riding on a motorcycle about to jump off of a ramp over a helicopter .
based on the edward bulwer - lytton novel. set in the shadows of mt. vesuvius just before its famous eruption, the film begins with glaucus, a roman legionnaire, returning to his home from... see full summary »
it' s said that it required numerous takes just to film you putting on your necktie; while the impression from wood' s films is that they' re one - take wonders. do you remember this shot being a tough one ?
reeves built his superb physique in a day when drugs were unheard of. as a result, he developed a keen insight into the true requirement of advanced levels of muscle growth, nutrition, definition, fat loss and shape building for the natural bodybuilder. this book is his legacy. within its pages lie the knowledge acquired from a lifetime of real bodybuilding. a sample of what' s in store includes: nutrition, losing bodyfat, reeve' s championship training routines, the power of walking, a seminar with steve reeves, and much more. a book of this magnitude only comes along once in a lifetime !
though it was barely released in english theatrically, most spaghetti western fans couldn' t easily see this film until wild east issued it as part of their exhaustive, amazing line of genre releases on dvd. the 1. 66: 1 flat transfer was okay but nothing spectacular, taken from a pal source, but the extras were terrific: a mammoth one - hour interview with costar palmara and some nifty home movie footage of reeves. fortunately code red upped the ante with a far superior new anamorphic transfer from the original elements in the cinerama vaults, first released
: implied with oswald markham, a. k. a. mack. he' s obviously not a conway, and his matter - of - fact description of
this year’s roping event, the thirty - fifth, was held at the san antonio rose palace, a dirt - floor arena on the northern edge of the city, largely untouched by time or technology. (it is down the road from tapatio springs, a golf resort that strait and a partner recently bought and renovated .) a couple of announcers called the action, their voices both amplified and distorted by an antiquated
pretty boy has horrific burns leaving all of the skin missing from one side of his face. the last we see of him, jake is taking an electric sander to the good half of his face .
the legendary strongman steve reeves played his first western in what would prove to be his final screen role thus riding off into the sunset literally at the end of this spaghetti western he also had a hand in adapting from the novel judas gun via author gordon shirreffs .
damage sponge boss: cook in the dlc runs around while firing a machine gun, has a lot of health (he' s got about two - and - a - half times as much health as a giant mook), and is defeated simply by shooting him a lot .
on saturday morning, championship day, strait made his grand arrival on horseback, taking a ceremonial lap around the arena as fans hung over the railings, angling for selfies. a cowboy preacher asked for protection: “we pray that no harm, in any form or fashion, comes near the horses, the steer, or the cowboys. ” (in fact, many of the steer were destined to become steak, just not quite yet .) strait watched with his family, from a box next to the announcer’s booth, descending when the action was finished to present the prizes—more than a hundred thousand dollars apiece for the two winners, along with new trucks and trailers. all weekend long, the loudspeakers played nothing but george strait songs, and it is a testament to his legacy that some attendees might not have noticed. his music is so synonymous with the genre that a selection of his hits might simply sound, to the casual listener, like a classic - country playlist .
when barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one - man war against them .
never trust a trailer: a bizarre in - game example. during the opening montage, jake does a few things such as fire a turret at the devil' s hand in what appears to be a forest, fights a biker on the side of the road, and jumps over a helicopter with his motorcycle. that last part is in the game. the turret and fight scenes aren' t .
unexpected gameplay change: during the introduction cutscene at the start of the game, you' re dropped into firing from a turret (without any context), then you' re thrown into a quick time event fight (again, without any context), and then you get to the main story with bike riding / beat' em up gameplay (revealing the opening was a flash forward montage, and giving a bare minimum of context) .
using yelp — kai’s love for leaving bad reviews has its upside — stefan manages to track down the karaoke - loving heretic. but when kai realizes stefan is human, he stabs him through the hand with the dagger that stefan wants so badly. as kai informs stefan, when you kill cade, hell goes along with him. thankfully, damon’s there to snap kai’s neck before he does any more damage to human stefan .
one gets the feeling from many of the decisions he takes over the course of the game, particularly the ones involving needlessly complicated zany schemes involving the deaths of a ridiculous number of innocent bystanders, that fighting in the vietnam war was not good for jake' s mental health .
: jake walks up to a woman working on a truck cab and mentions he never saw a woman working on a truck before. since the game takes place in the early 70s this kind of makes sense (as jake' s childhood took place in the late 50s and 60s at a time when
tired of being typecast and still smarting from that recurrent shoulder injury, reeves left the limelight for a retirement outside the rigors of movie making. he married, raised horses, and occasionally spoke out about his time in competitive bodybuilding and as part of an international tinseltown. while something like
after more than two years of hard work and dedication to bodybuilding, reeves had developed a truly phenomenal body. friends told him repeatedly that he should become a wrestler, a dancer, or an actor in the movies because of his good looks and amazing musculature. he graduated from high school in 1944, and on september 12 of that year reported to the precidio of monterey for induction into the army .
a man tracks down the five outlaws who murdered his brother, all the while being shadowed by a mysterious pinkerton detective .
a grizzled ex - sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead .
jake' s parents died by being pushed off a cliff. caesar meets his end by jake forcing him off a cliff
double standard: one of the women you can
rescue
from a bunch of thugs rejects their advances by saying that she saves herself for her man. once jake beats up the thugs, she suddenly decides that it' s okay to have sex with him. note that jake asked for a beer as a reward. granted, post - coitus she mentions her
boyfriend
is an asshole, and she only mentioned him to use him as a beard .
it was released for the playstation 3 and xbox 360, and its pc version was distributed through steam. the steam version quickly dropped the price to $ 5, but was later pulled from the store outright in october 2014 .
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after returning from his tour of duty in vietnam, jake conway reunites with his uncle mack and younger brother mike. after the latter is murdered by members of the biker gang devil' s hand, jake vows revenge against them .
. over the years a lot has been said about your working relationship with joseph e. levine, the producer. one time it' s levine who' s raking in the dough from the movies while you' re just taking home a paycheck another report has levine being left out in the cold after making a few high ticket movies while you cashed in on the popularity and doing more films. what really happened ?
for a long time, the ups and downs of brooks and other country innovators only underscored strait’s position as the genre’s most dependable act. a wide range of singers, from martina mcbride to taylor swift, first faced big crowds by serving as strait’s opening act. when he moved up from arenas to stadiums, in the late nineties, he booked enough opening acts to create daylong mini - festivals, boosting the careers of faith hill, tim mcgraw, brooks & dunn. for the shows earlier this year, in las vegas, his opening act was kacey musgraves, who is twenty - eight; when she was growing up, in east texas, strait was already a well - established star. after her own set, she reappeared with strait to perform a duet on a song called “run, ” dancing a bit and adding some new harmonies while he stood still, singing it just like the record. “he’s the steady train, ” she said, after the show. “and i can flit all around him. ” musgraves is a mischievous singer and songwriter, known for tweaking old country traditions. (“it’s high time to slow my roll, let the grass just grow, ” she sings, with a knowing smile .) even so, she was enjoying the challenge of trying to win over a george strait crowd, not to mention the challenge of trying to get to know strait himself. “i’ve gotten to hang out with him a little, ” she said. “we mainly just talk about horses. ”
all women are lustful: every single woman encountered in the game save one will immediately suggest sex after being rescued from sexual assault or after their husband has been beat up. this is while said baddies are still dying in the same room .
a former union activist and veteran endorsed by bernie sanders has a chance to win the district represented for twenty years by paul ryan .
good shootouts, better than average revolt sequence and terrific score. could have been a bigger title with a known spaghetti western star .
filmed in singapore it tells the story of sandokan who is a malaysian rebel who, with a group of renegades, goes up against a british general who is trying to force the king to resign .
we have reserves: the devil' s hand has a large number of soldiers packed into a relatively small area, enough to make up a small army. and they come at you in waves .
people didn' t consider it a sport, that' s true. they thought it was a get - in - shape hobby. my friends and family didn' t see much of a living in it unless a person could open a gym. my friends thought it was a good way to socialize and to compete. it is a sport in the respect that you compete - against the weights and other people in the gym. then ultimately you compete against other bodybuilders on the stage. so in that respect it is a competitive sport .
- a film which proved to do pretty good for him. he had a friend in rome who looked for films to buy. when
in - universe: when anvil drives into a building, jake goes on a convoluted mission to get the keys instead of just breaking in .
( 2) reeves had dislocated his shoulder during the filming of gli ultimi giorni di pompeï (co - directed by sergio leone !) when his chariot slammed into a tree. the injury aggravated because of the stunt work in every successive movie and would eventually make weight - lifting impossible and lead to reeves' retirement from film making .
on a friday night earlier this year, at t - mobile arena, a few paces from the las vegas strip, nearly twenty thousand fans came together to hear strait make his way through more than thirty of his biggest hits—a fraction of the total. “we have a lot of songs to play for you tonight, a whole lot, ” he said, and then he didn’t say much more. strait prefers to give his audience as few distractions as possible: he likes to play on a stage in the center of the arena floor, with four microphones arranged like compass points; every two songs, he moves, counterclockwise, to the next microphone, so that people in each quadrant of the crowd can feel as if he were singing just to them. because he was playing in the round, there was no backdrop, and nothing in the way of pyrotechnics, with the important exception of that smile. his onstage outfit, which has barely changed in forty years, includes, along with the cowboy hat and cowboy boots, a button - down shirt and bluejeans, ironed stiff enough to form an exoskeleton. a promotional contract obliges him to wear wrangler jeans, and decades of ranching and roping inclines him to wear them stacked—that is, long and bunched up, so that he could, if necessary, mount a horse without fear of exposing any extra boot .
without it... that, and steve reeves' 42 year old muscle man physique. at first, we fear we will never see mr. olympia' s famed form, his wardrobe seemingly made up of as many layers of clothing as possible (it looks mighty cold on the passing for the old west spanish set). but then we get to yuma and its all sinew and sweat. homoeroticism was never quite as swarthy as this, though it only lasts as long as reeves is incarcerated. once he breaks out, it' s back to the vests and chaps, dammit! still, reeves is all man in this movie, making his way from impossible odds to improbable escapes with all the finesse of a guy given over to one too many hours in his local gym .
while this may have it’s roots in the italian western craze, it plays very much like a seventies hollywood oater when the genre had hardened predating movies like lawman, chato’s land or the hunting party to name a few. reeves is the owner of a horse ranch who along with his brother, giovani ivan scratuglia and an old timer, spartaco conversi set out to get the horses back and bring the rustlers to justice. in to his camp rides american tv star, wayde preston, an old saddle mate who promptly sets up the brothers in an elaborate railway heist for a fortune in gold. he and his gang ride off leaving the old timer dead and reeves along with his little brother wounded and taking the blame as outlaws abandoned by the others due to their wounds. when a vicious sheriff turns up, he sends them both to the hard labor rock pits of yuma prison. considering this is a steve reeves picture, the rock quarry will give him a chance to show off that muscular physique he built his name on .
in the late seventies, some of the most successful country singers were gentle balladeers like kenny rogers and barbara mandrell, and the executives who initially heard strait’s demos thought he would likely remain a local favorite. his prospects may have improved with the release, in 1980, of “urban cowboy, ” in which john travolta and debra winger do battle with a mechanical bull in a honky - tonk called gilley’s. (the film was not, despite its plot, a comedy .) “urban cowboy” glamorized rowdy texas bars and all the creatures that called them home, and it created a new demand for singing cowboys like strait. he got a record deal the next year, and had success with his début single, “unwound, ” a brisk drinking song built on a long - winded complaint: “that woman that i had wrapped around my finger just come unwound. ” he recorded it with session musicians but continued to use the ace in the hole band when he was on tour, as he almost always was. strait was happy to go around the country promoting “unwound, ” but woolsey, his manager, remembers rebuffing the record executives who wanted strait to dress up, taking off his cowboy hat and trading his stacked jeans for slacks. “you don’t understand, ” woolsey told them. “where he’s from, that is dressing up. ”
an image in a government briefing book helped a state department official see “the forest for the trees” in the west bank—and then was shared with the president .
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really launched her career and she did very well ever after. she did the film completely in italian because she came from the part of yugoslavia that spoke yugoslavian as well as italian. she was a nice person to work with and since it was my first big film i was more concerned with what i was doing rather than what the other people were doing .
after he’d hung up his sandals and spurs, so to speak, reeves continued to remain interested in physical fitness. he spent the remainder of his life living quietly in california, where he managed a horse ranch and raised morgan horses. he also wrote a workout guide, building the classic physique the natural way. he taught bodybuilding, too, which he believed could help young people keep away from drugs. steve reeves died in 1989 .
it wasn’t an absurd idea: texas was full of small bars where unpretentious country bands could bash out a living. just to be safe, though, strait enrolled at southwest texas state university, in san marcos, where he studied agricultural education, and where, one day, he came upon a bulletin - board notice from a group in search of a singer. he auditioned with “fraulein, ” a country classic from the fifties, and was hired as the lead singer of the group, which was called the ace in the hole band. one of the members was a pedal - steel player named mike daily, who has performed with strait ever since. daily’s grandfather was pappy daily, a legendary country impresario who discovered george jones, and his father ran an independent label, which issued three ace in the hole band singles in the late nineteen - seventies—strait’s first recordings. daily remembers that strait wasn’t planning on staying local forever. “i’m here to try to make it, ” strait told the musicians, and daily knew that making it would probably entail going to nashville, where talent scouts typically signed singers, not bands .
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motive rant: caesar does this via a stadium loudspeaker before the last level .
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coitus ensues: jarringly frequently. if you have to rescue any female from harassment, it always goes
jake murders the harasser (s) - > have sex with the victim - > go back to whatever you were doing
in that exact order with zero natural transition between these scenes .
sr: i' m in good shape. i weigh a solid 200. i get up in the morning about six o' clock and go power walking for about a half hour, then go back in and do the weights for about a half hour, and then, in the summertime - at least nine months a year - i do pool exercises. then i go and ride my horses for about an hour, so from about six till ten it' s all exercise, but pleasurable exercise. years ago i used to use comparably heavy weights and maybe 10 repetitions for each muscle. now i lift lighter weights and do about 15 repetitions. it keeps me where i want to be and it' s no great stress on the body. i feel good, i look good, i' m in great shape, and i don' t have any injuries. tpv: that' s great. do you have any recommendations for a herniated disc? sr: i' ve helped people with other things, but not that. do you do stretching? tpv: yes, that' s what my physical therapist has been instructing me to do. sr: put in a bar at home where you can hang, and possibly get some iron boots, or put some weights around your ankles so you can stretch your lower back a little bit. tpv: thanks. sr: you' re welcome .
a george strait concert is a master class in the art of restraint. “he just stands there, ” an executive once marvelled, “and people go fucking crazy. ” strait leans away from the high notes, sways gently with the up - tempo songs, and says just enough to remind fans that they are not, in fact, listening to his records; all night, he strums an acoustic guitar that no one can hear, maybe not even him .
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told strait. “there are some key radio guys that are ready to be done with you. it has nothing to do with you as an artist—it has to do with the fact that they played you in the eighties, they played you in the nineties, the two - thousands, and here we are in 2012, and nothing else in culture has held on that long. ” dungan remembers that strait seemed both alarmed and fascinated. “i don’t think anyone had ever said those words to him before, ” he said .
strait doesn’t believe in disappointing paying customers, so he endeavors to play every song that anyone wants to hear. casual listeners may know him best for “all my ex’s live in texas, ” a slightly drunken - sounding novelty song that long ago transcended its novelty status, elevated by countless bleary - eyed sing - alongs: “texas is the place i’d dearly love to be / but all my ex’s live in texas / and that’s why i hang my hat in tennessee. ” in this arena, though, people were just as excited for “check yes or no, ” a good - natured radio perennial about a love affair that begins in the third grade and lasts well past the third chorus. one key to strait’s success is that he is stubborn but not too stubborn. he adores the rough - hewn music and iconography of his native texas, but he has never been too cool to sing sweeter, softer songs about suburban love gone right. he is a traditionalist, but not a revivalist: instead of evoking a bygone past, he prefers to evoke a familiar, unchanging present. the quintessential george strait song involves a man who feels something strongly but can express it only winkingly. “if you leave me, i won’t miss you, ” he declares, at the start of “ocean front property, ” followed by a chorus made up of declarations that are, likewise, lies. “i’ve got some oceanfront property in arizona / from my front porch, you can see the sea, ” he sings. “if you buy that, i’ll throw the golden gate in, free. ”
only six faces: the game reuses character models a lot. this is particularly noticeable as it' s even done for supporting roles with a decent amount of screen time. the women (with the exception of brandy, ellie, and the strippers) are particularly hilarious - even though they have a variety of different hairstyles and possibly faces, and one of them even has an ascot that none of the others have, from the neck down their bodies and clothes are all perfect palette swaps of each other right down to having the exact same black studded wristband .
twin brothers revolt against tyranny in pre - roman italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city .
steve reeves' swan song to film is a standard spaghetti western with good action scenes and a fast pace. it was a personal project for him and he' d only return to acting if offered western roles. wish he' d made more .
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in 1977 he contacted me and said ,
would you go around and make personal appearances for me when the show opens in dallas, new york, chicago, and about seven other cities ?
i said that i would, and he asked ,
how much are you going to charge me ?
i said that i didn' t need much, just my expenses and five hundred dollars each day, which is nothing. he thought that was too much and said ,
oh hell, i can get some muscle men jerks from the gyms in each of those towns - do you want me to do that ?
i told him to go ahead, and that' s just what he did. for crying out loud, i gave him that price because i felt i was giving him a more than fair value for my time. these days when i do events i charge somewhere around a thousand dollars an hour, or if i stay three hours i' ll do it for two thousand dollars. i was certainly worth more in those days than i am today. but levine - five hundred dollars a day for old times sake yet he wanted all the money.
a long ride from hell , in the original italian known as vivo per la tua morte ( literally " i live for your death ! " ) , is a 1968 film directed by camillo bazzoni . it was based on the novel judas gun by gordon d. shirreffs . the film was bodybuilder steve reeves ' final film prior to his retirement . reeves , who turned down the lead of a fistful of dollars financed and co-wrote the film himself upon seeing the successful box office returns of the clint eastwood spaghetti westerns at the time . the film did poorly and reeves retired from filmmaking that year . 
a long ride from hell, in the original italian known as vivo per la tua morte (literally " i live for your death! "), is a 1968 film directed by camillo bazzoni. it was based on the novel judas gun by gordon d. shirreffs. the film was bodybuilder steve reeves' final film prior to his retirement. reeves, who turned down the lead of a fistful of dollars financed and co-wrote the film himself upon seeing the successful box office returns of the clint eastwood spaghetti westerns at the time. the film did poorly and reeves retired from filmmaking that year.
a long ride from hell, in the original italian known as vivo per la tua morte (literally " i live for your death! "), is a 1968 film directed by camillo bazzoni. it was based on the novel judas gun by gordon d. shirreffs. the film was bodybuilder steve reeves' final film prior to his retirement. reeves, who turned down the lead of a fistful of dollars financed and co-wrote the film himself upon seeing the successful box office returns of the clint eastwood spaghetti westerns at the time. the film did poorly and reeves retired from filmmaking that year.