In a time long long ago it was decided by a American film distributor that if a British movie was to be distributed among the masses and make some money it had to have an American star in the lead role.It is still happening today and yet still people apart from Britain and probably Australia only get to see a British movie so this distributor lied all those years ago and yet we still put Americans in the lead role and in my humble opinion the movies are the worse for it.
Now take Hawk The Slayer as we have two Americans in the lead roles.Number one is Jack Palance a very well known actor who has played bad guys in numerous movies and number two is John Terry who apparently had a small part in an episode of Soap and Lou Grant before this film.All Jack Palance did was shout his way through ninety minutes of this movie and well John Terry who makes the phrase wooden acting an Oscar winning performance.
Now the film...People who go on about the special effects don't realise that British films are made on a shoestring budget as we don't have the money and we don't have deep pocket producers like the American movies have so the £50 spend on the special effects weren't really that bad...lol.
The story is quite simple and in my eyes a film is good if i don't half way through start thinking about what i am going to do later or the following day or whatever and i don't with Hawk The Slayer i just watch the film.
Now take Hawk The Slayer as we have two Americans in the lead roles.Number one is Jack Palance a very well known actor who has played bad guys in numerous movies and number two is John Terry who apparently had a small part in an episode of Soap and Lou Grant before this film.All Jack Palance did was shout his way through ninety minutes of this movie and well John Terry who makes the phrase wooden acting an Oscar winning performance.
Now the film...People who go on about the special effects don't realise that British films are made on a shoestring budget as we don't have the money and we don't have deep pocket producers like the American movies have so the £50 spend on the special effects weren't really that bad...lol.
The story is quite simple and in my eyes a film is good if i don't half way through start thinking about what i am going to do later or the following day or whatever and i don't with Hawk The Slayer i just watch the film.
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