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David Carradine
David Carradine died tragically, on Thursday 3 June 2009 at the age of 72.
The Kill Bill star was found in his Bankok hotel room with a cord secured around his neck and other parts of his body. The cause of death has become widely accepted as "accidental asphyxiation".
Born 8 December 1936, David Caradine will be fondly remembered for his contribution to the acting community. Carradine’s life changed when he landed the lead role as Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s television series Kung Fu. A show which he later revisited to play Caine's grandson in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.
In 1972 Carradine famously teamed up with heavy-weight director Martin Scorsese to play "Big" Bill Shelley in Boxcar Bertha, before going onto play folksinger Woody Guthrie in the biopic Bound For Glory and Abel Rosenberg in The Serpent’s Egg. During the 1980s Carradine shied away from the limelight to work on low budget movies, but in 2003 he returned to the big screen with a bang as Bill in Quentin Tarantino’s two part film, Kill Bill and Kill Bill 2, opposite Uma Thurman.
Carradine told the BBC that his penchant for talking helped Tarantino with the script: "We'd smoke a cigar in the evening and talk and talk and talk, and a week later there's a rewrite and it has that conversation in it. I talk endlessly," he said.
He added, "Basically I'm doing the Samuel L Jackson part in this movie. I'm just talking my head off, in between killing people."
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David Carradine 1936-2009 -
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-A forthright and intelligent actor who wasn’t afraid to speak his mind, David Carradine was found dead in his hotel room in Bangkok on 4th June 2009, after what seems to have been an act of auto-asphyxiation.-
-The actor will be remembered most vividly for
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Movie clash with Carradine left Schneider battered and bruised -
27 March 2009
-Actor Rob Schneider was left with a string of painful injuries after clashing with Kung Fu legend David Carradine in his latest movie.-
-Carradine plays a martial arts expert hired to toughen up Schneider's character in Big Stan, the film funnyman's directorial debut.-
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David Carradine - filmography
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Dinocroc Vs. Supergator
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: David Carradine, James C. Burns, John Callahan
Director: Jim Wynorski
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Their creation was shrouded in secrecy in an island laboratory but they escaped and the deadly Dinocroc and Supergator are on the rampage and nothing can stop them. Only the eclectic teaming of a Cajun swamp hunter, an undercover investigator and a foxy fish and game office stand between these ..read more »
 
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from 50 members
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Detention
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: David Carradine, Zelda Williams, Rachel Sterling
Director: James D.R. Hickox
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A group of high school students are sent to Detention. Abandoned and locked in, images of ghosts appear as they attempt to escape, only to find themselves connected to a past horrific death and made responsible for it with their lives.
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from 1,323 member
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True Legend - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Man Cheuk Chiu, Xun Zhou, Michelle Yeoh
Director: Yuen Woo-Ping
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True Legend is the extraordinary journey of a man - a martial arts hero - whose greatest dream is to create a unique school of martial arts for the world to follow. All his life, Su Can has been pursuing the summit in martial arts. There are two things he holds dearest to his heart - the dream of ..read more »
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from 1,070 member
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True Legend
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Man Cheuk Chiu, Xun Zhou, Michelle Yeoh
Director: Yuen Woo-Ping
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True Legend is the extraordinary journey of a man - a martial arts hero - whose greatest dream is to create a unique school of martial arts for the world to follow. All his life, Su Can has been pursuing the summit in martial arts. There are two things he holds dearest to his heart - the dream of ..read more »
72%
from 1,393 member
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Crank 2 - High Voltage
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Efren Ramirez
Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Certificate: 
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Jason Statham is back as Chev Chelios, proving you can't keep a dead man down. Chev survives a jaw-dropping plunge from a helicopter only to be kidnapped by a triad gang who has plans for his seemingly indestructible heart. He wakes up three months later to discover his ticker has been surgincally ..read more »
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from 15,972 members
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Autumn
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Dexter Fletcher, Dickon Tolson, Lana Kamenov
Director: Steven Rumbelow
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A horrible virus kills billions within minutes. The few survivors that are left have to deal with the shock of the apocalypse, and they have no idea that things are about to get much worse.
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from 537 members
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Road of No Return
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Michael Madsen, David Carradine, Michael Blain-Rozgay
Director: Parviz Saghizadeh
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Road of No Return follows the final nine days in the lives of four atypical hit men who are secretly brought together in a covert operation to fight the drug trafficking epidemic in the nation.
Contrary to their coldhearted facades, the hit men are lost souls in search of redemption. On their ..read more »
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from 161 members
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Break
(2008)
Starring: Frank Krueger, Sarah Thompson, Chad Everett
Director: Marc Clebanoff
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"Break" is a stylistic noir drama about an introverted hit man named Frank who is contracted to carry out an unusual job. When the city's crime boss, known only as "The Man", discovers that he's terminally ill, he enlists Frank to carry out his own assassination. "The Man", however, is selfish and ..read more »
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from 1 member
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White Crane
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: David Carradine
Director: Philip Spink
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1929. China is in unrest, as the Republic falls prey to Warlords like Kahn Xin, who holds an entire province hostage to the opium trade-and destroys all who oppose him. Only the revered Wudang monks dare stand in Kahn's way in order to protect the very soul of China. Among them is the Westerner, ..read more »
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from 134 members
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Hell Ride - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: David Carradine, Larry Bishop, Dennis Hopper
Director: Larry Bishop
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While it contains little of the artistry and none of the nuance of Quentin Tarantino's DEATH PROOF, HELL RIDE is a similarly fun retro romp through the seedier corners of American B-movie history. Written and directed by Larry Bishop (son of Rat Packer Joey Bishop), who also stars, HELL RIDE is a ..read more »
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from 443 members
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Kung Fu Killer
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Kay Tong Lim
Director: Philip Spink
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To avenge the murder of his Wudang Grandmaster, White Crane (Carradine), a monk and spiritual master of the martial arts, infiltrates the Shanghai underground, where he forms an unusual bond with a New York lounge singer (Hannah) and her gangster boss. In this twisted den of crime, Crane must cross ..read more »
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from 125 members
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Big Stan
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Rob Scneider, Jennifer Morrison, Melanie Lynskey
Director: Rob Schneider
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Stan, a two-bit con man, is being sent to prison for fraud and the prospect terrifies him. Seeking help from a mysterious martial arts guru known only as The Master, Stan transforms himself into a kung fu expert - ultimately bringing the warring prison gangs together and establishing peace within ..read more »
65%
from 3,391 members
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Son Of The Dragon
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Rupert Graves, John Reardon, David Carradine
Director: David Wu
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A small time con artist and his loyal companion must fight to prove their innocence when they are accused of attempting to poison a princess in this adventure mini-series directed by David Wu and starring David Carradine. D.B. (John Reardon) was abandoned at birth on the docks of Shanghai, and ..read more »
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from 38 members
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How to Rob a Bank
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Nick Stahl, Erika Christensen, Gavin Rossdale
Director: Andrews Jenkins
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After interrupting a bank robbery in progress, Jason Jinx Taylor (Nick Stahl) is now locked in the vault with bound and gagged employee Jessica (Erika Christensen). But not everything is as it seems. Sexy Jessica is part of the inside job and Jinx has upset the heist. With events changing fast they ..read more »
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from 1,615 member
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The Last Sect
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: David Carradine, Natalie Brown, Deborah Odell
Director: Jonathan Dueck
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Putting a decidedly modern twist on the vampire genre, this entertaining gore-fest has hot female vamps using internet dating sites as their own personal delivery services--as a reporter working on an innocent lifestyle story discovers to her horror. Meanwhile, these femmes fatales are being ..read more »
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from 574 members
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Brothers In Arms
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: David Carradine, Gabriel Casseus, Antwon Tanner
Director: Jean-Claude La Marre
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This innovative revisionist Western features an all-star cast, and combines suspense and sincerity to put an entirely new spin on the genre. Malone brothers Linc (Gabriel Casseus, BLACK HAWK DOWN, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD) and Zane (Antwon Tanner, COACH CARTER) are the two most-wanted outlaws ..read more »
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from 340 members
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Kill Bill - Vol. 2
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen
Director: Quentin Tarantino
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The second and final volume in Quentin Tarantino's KILL BILL series is another stylish, sprawling masterwork. VOLUME 2 picks up where the first film left off, as The Bride (Uma Thurman) resumes her quest to track down her former mentor, Bill (David Carradine), and exact revenge. But before she gets ..read more »
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from 86,858 members
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Kill Bill Vol.2 - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen
Director: Quentin Tarantino
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The second and final volume in Quentin Tarantino's KILL BILL series is another stylish, sprawling masterwork. VOLUME 2 picks up where the first film left off, as The Bride (Uma Thurman) resumes her quest to track down her former mentor, Bill (David Carradine), and exact revenge. But before she gets ..read more »
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from 2,843 members
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Kill Bill - Vol.1 - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox
Director: Quentin Tarantino
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Quentin Tarantino returns to the director's chair with KILL BILL after a six-year hiatus. The movie proves once again that he is a hyperactive visionary and the master of cinematic coolness. Split into two volumes by Miramax in order to ensure that Tarantino's vision would not be compromised (and ..read more »
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from 3,365 members
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Kill Bill - Vol. 1
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox
Director: Quentin Tarantino
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Quentin Tarantino returns to the director's chair with KILL BILL after a six-year hiatus. The movie proves once again that he is a hyperactive visionary and the master of cinematic coolness. Split into two volumes by Miramax in order to ensure that Tarantino's vision would not be compromised (and ..read more »
72%
from 92,214 members
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Balto 2 - Wolf Quest
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: David Carradine, Lacey Chabert, Mark Hamill
Director: Phil Weinstein
Certificate: 
A sequel to 1995's BALTO, the story of a half wolf, half dog who leads a sled full of antitoxins through the Alaskan winter to a town suffering from diphtheria, BALTO II picks up where the first ended. After settling down with Jenna and having 6 pups, it soon becomes time for Balto to give his ..read more »
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from 447 members
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Lizzie McGuire - Season 2.2
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Hilary Duff
Director: David Carradine, Rachel Feldman, Timothy Busfiel
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Meet Lizzie McGuire. She is so thirteen years old, with all the worries every thirteen-year-old has. How can I be more popular in school? Can I be seen wearing this or will it be a total social disaster? How do I stop my mother humiliating and embarrassing me? Am I turning into a geek? Join Lizzie (..read more »
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from 279 members
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Crime School
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: David Carradine, Richard Moll, John Capodice
Director: James Hill
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A gangster befriends a homeless and confused teenager and leads him into a world of organised crime with the promise of money. Membership of this exclusive organisation comes at a price; no-one leaves the group and death is the only reality.
38%
from 89 members
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Martial Law
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Cynthia Rothrock, Chad McQueen, David Carradine
Director: Steve Cohen
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Los Angeles is a city under siege where the bad guys outnumber the police. Sean is a martial arts master and a legend in the police department. He is chosen as the leader of a new squad of officers. The criminals fall under the might of Thompson and his karate cops as they go undercover to ..read more »
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from 244 members
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Bird On A Wire
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn, David Carradine
Director: John Badham
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Rick Jarmin is in deep trouble. An old flame has recognised him, even though he is part of the FBI witness-relocation programme. And the man he put behind bars is out to get him....
62%
from 4,702 members
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The Warrior And The Sorceress
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: David Carradine, Luke Askew, Harry Townes
Director: John Broderick
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In this fantasy adventure, Kain (David Carradine) is a powerful warrior skilled in the use of many weapons and available for hire when he rolls in to Yam-A-Tar. However, when he discovers two worthy opponents who are preoccupied with dominating the village's only well, Kain has to employ more ..read more »
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from 296 members
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Lone Wolf McQuade
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Chuck Norris, David Carradine, Barbara Carrera
Director: Steve Carver
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Texas Ranger and martial arts expert J.J. McQuade (Norris), along with FBI agent Jackson must track down bad guy Rawley Wilkes (Carradine) who is stealing U.S. military weapons and selling them to terrorists in Central America. When he comes face-to-face with the so-far undefeated Wilkes in a ..read more »
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from 642 members
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Q: The Winged Serpent
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Micheal Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine
Director: Larry Cohen
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Jimmy Quinn is a small-time crook who finds a mysterious nest in the spire of the Chrysler Building. Meanwhile, chaos is breaking out in New York as people have their heads bitten off and body parts are seen strewn across the streets...
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from 778 members
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The Long Riders
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine
Director: Walter Hill
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The hook in Walter Hill's mythic retelling of the James-Younger outlaw legend is in the casting; the James, Younger, Miller, and Ford Brothers are played by a string of acting brothers, the Keachs, the Carradines, the Quaids and the Guests. The film begins as outlaws are robbing a bank. After the ..read more »
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from 1,492 member
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The Long Riders - Blu-ray
(1980)
Starring: David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine
Director: Walter Hill
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This violent Western follows four sets of brothers--the Youngers, the Jameses, the Millers, and the Fords--who band together for a crime spree across Missouri. Law enforcers, meanwhile, prove inept in their attempts to apprehend the renegade cowboys, who are busy arguing among themselves. Director ..read more »
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The Silent Flute
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: David Carradine, Jeff Cooper, Roddy McDowall
Director: Richard Moore
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This film, co-written by Bruce Lee, tells the story of Cord a rebellious martial artist on his quest to find the Book of Enlightenment. On his journey he must determine friend from foe as he travels through a land inhabited by mysterious characters all committed to testing his body, mind and soul ..read more »
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Death Sport
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: David Carradine, Claudia Jennings, Richard Lynch
Director: Henry Susa, Allan Arkush
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The "Range Guides," a group of humans in the post-apocalyptic Earth of the year 3000, are set up to battle in a lethal game called Death Sport. ROCK-N-ROLL HIGH SCHOOL director Arkush directs Carradine and beautiful former Playboy Playmate Jennings ('GATOR BAIT, THE GREAT TEXAS DYNAMITE CHASE) in ..read more »
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from 119 members
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The Serpent's Egg
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Frobe
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
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This unusual political drama by Ingmar Bergman was filmed at Bavaria Film Studios in Munich during the director's exile from Sweden after encountering problems with tax officials back home. THE SERPENT'S EGG, a big-budget German-American coproduction, was Bergman's second work in English after THE ..read more »
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from 382 members
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Cannonball
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel
Director: Paul Bartel
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High energy action film about an illegal and lengthy marathon road race, the Trans-American Grand Prix, where the goal is to make it to the finish without being arrested or incinerated.There are no rules or judges, just a $100,000 prize. Look for cameos from Scorcese and Stallone.
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from 280 members
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Bound For Glory
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon
Director: Hal Ashby
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Hal Ashby's film of Woody Guthrie's autobiography, BOUND FOR GLORY, recounts the protest singer's life starting when he's a young man with a wife and two children, trying to find work as a sign painter in the Dust Bowl-ravaged Texas of the 1930s. He leaves his wife, Mary (Melinda Dillon), with her ..read more »
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from 441 members
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Death Race 2000
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth
Director: Paul Bartel
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More delightfully sick humor from Bartel (EATING RAOUL). In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians--with bonus points for the elderly! Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using ..read more »
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Kung Fu - Season 1
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: David Carradine, Season Hubley, Keye Luke
Director: none
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Caine is a man of peace in a violent land. He lives humbly and contently but hits hard. He is a hero but refuses to use the word simply saying 'I am a man'.
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from 1,308 member
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Kung Fu - Season 2
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: David Carradine
Director: none
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Caine is a man of peace in a violent land. He lives humbly and contently but hits hard. He is a hero but refuses to use the word simply saying 'I am a man'.
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from 637 members
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Boxcar Bertha
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, John Carradine
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Produced by Roger Corman and directed by Martin Scorsese, Boxcar Bertha is a Bonnie and Clyde-like yarn set during the Depression. The title character, played by Barbara Hershey, links up with union organizer David Carradine (Hershey's real-life lover at the time) after the death of her father. ..read more »
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The McMasters
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Burl Ives, Jack Palance, David Carradine
Director: Alf Kjellin
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Set in the immediate post-Civil War era, THE MCMASTERS stars Brock Peters as a black Union soldier who finds he must figuratively fight the war all over again. Returning to his southern hometown, Peters quickly learns that nothing has really changed: he is a 'free' man in name only. Peters' ex-..read more »
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Young Billy Young
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker Jr.
Director: Burt Kennedy
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Ben Kane is a peace-loving man, but he takes the job of Deputy Marshall in order to settle a score with the chief trouble-maker. He soon has to deal with others in the town who are looking to create trouble for him, like Billy, a young sharpshooter, and Lily, a saloon dancer.
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
(1969)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, David Carradine
Director: Burt Kennedy
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Marshal Flagg, an ageing lawman about to be retired, hears that his old nemesis, the outlaw McKaye, is back in the area and planning a robbery. Riding out to hunt down McKaye, Flagg is captured by McKaye's gang and finds out that McKaye is no longer the leader of the gang, but is considered just an ..read more »
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The Hunted
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: James Gregory, Stuart Whitman, David Carradine
Director: Alvin Ganzer
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A pair of brothers wanted for murder turn themselves in to the Marshall claiming self-defense, but when a rancher has one of them shot dead in the jail the other vows revenge. A Stuart Whitman 'Cimarron' Western.
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The Violent Ones
(1967)
Starring: Fernando Lamas, Aldo Ray, Tommy Sands
Director: Fernando Lamas
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When a young resident of a peaceful Mexican village is brutally raped to death, the evidence points to one of three strangers in town, all of whom are Mexican-hating Anglo-Americans. The father of the dead girl hates all whites and is eager to lynch all three to make sure they get the culprit, but ..read more »
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Cimarron Strip - Series 1
(6 discs)
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Warren Oats, Steve Forest
Director: Vincent McEveety
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"Cimarron Strip" follows the adventures of rough and tough marshall Jim Crown. Six 70 minute episodes. Titles are Journey To a Hanging, The Legend Of Jud Starr, Broken Wing, The Battleground, The Hunted, The Battle Of Bloody Stones.
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Cimarron Strip - E05 - The Hunted
(1967)
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Percy Herbert, Randy Boone
Director: Alvin Ganzer
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When wanted killers, brothers Felix and Gene Gauge, turn themselves in to Marshal Crown and proclaim self-defence in a killing, they become the prime targets of other bounty hunters. With a $15,000 bounty on their heads, a local wealthy rancher hires a couple of ruthless henchmen to gun down the ..read more »
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David Carradine - Complete Mind And Body...
(4 discs)
on DVD
Starring: David Carradine
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Enhance your mind, body and soul with the star of Kill Bill in these easy to learn workouts for beginners. Let Hollywood legend and Kill Bill star David Carradine lead you through a selection of fantastic workouts, all designed to help strengthen and relax your mind and body. Ancient techniques ..read more »
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from 16 members
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Future Force
on DVD
Starring: David Carradine
Director: David Prior
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A reporter discovers a corruption scandal in a police organisation, which leads to her life being at risk. The only person who can protect her is John Tucker (David Carradine, KILL BILL VOL 2), a supercop with a robotic arm. With the help of his computer-whiz friend Billy, Tucker sets out to get to ..read more »
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...saturday night. Would it be as good as i remembered?
Yes.
It is great.
David Carradines tranquil performance is spot on, the Kung Fu fight scenes better and faster th...
