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John Milius - news / articles
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Milius takes aim at Red Dawn remake -
30 March 2010
-Moviemaker John Milius has blasted plans to remake action film Red Dawn - because the original is only 25 years old.-
-Milius, who directed and co-wrote the original, is not part of MGM's planned revamp - and he can't believe it's going ahead.-
- He tells the Los A
John Milius - what members say
review by from Salford, Manchester
Awful 23 October 2005
John Milius - filmography
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Clear And Present Danger
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Joaquim De Almeida, Harris Yulin
Director: Phillip Noyce
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Harrison Ford reprises his role as CIA Agent Jack Ryan in this adaptation of Tom Clancy's novel. When his mentor Admiral James Greer (James Earl Jones) becomes gravely ill, Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence. His first assignment: to investigate the murder of one of the ..read more »
 
69%
from 11,551 members
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Geronimo - An American Legend
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Matt Damon, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall
Director: Walter Hill
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Walter Hill's revisionist western tells the story of the native American chief Geronimo (Wes Studi) after his homeland is overrun by the migrant whites. Betrayed by General George Crook (Gene Hackman), Geronimo gathers a small group of fellow warriors and together they leave their reservation and ..read more »
63%
from 778 members
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Flight Of The Intruder
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Danny Glover, J. Kenneth Campbell, Rosanna Arquette
Director: John Milius
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Commander Frank Camparelli (Danny Glover) rules his aircraft carrier with an iron fist, but this does not stop a couple of renegade pilots planning and executing an unauthorised mission behind enemy lines in Vietnam. Their plane has no defensive capabilities and they face court martial if they ..read more »
65%
from 601 members
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Farewell To The King
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Marilyn Tokuda, Frank McRae, Marius Weyers
Director: John Milius
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War drama in which a US deserter is taken in by a Borneo jungle tribe only to find that the tribe are threatened by his country's enemies as well. Learoyd (Nick Nolte) is sent to fight the Japanese in tough jungle conditions and deserts, only to end up in a POW camp anyway. Narrowly escaping death ..read more »
54%
from 174 members
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Red Dawn
(1984)
Starring: Ron O', Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson
Director: John Milius
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An attempted invasion of America by the Russians is spearheaded by a paratrooper unit landing in Colorado. The local students head for the mountains, and from there wage guerilla war on the Soviet invaders. Director John Milius had previously offered a rather less heroic version of war with his ..read more »
61%
from 3,174 members
Currently unavailable
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Red Dawn - Blu-ray
(1984)
Starring: Ron O', Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson
Director: John Milius
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An American city awakens to the surreal sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky -- shockingly, the U.S. has been invaded and their hometown is the initial target. Quickly and without warning, the citizens find themselves prisoners and their town under enemy occupation. Determined to ..read more »
60%
from 144 members
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Uncommon Valour
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Reb Brown, Robert Stack, Tim Thomerson
Director: Ted Kotcheff
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After 10 years of going through the right channels to search for his son who has been listed as missing in action in Vietnam, Colonel Jason Rhodes (Gene Hackman) decides he must take matters into his own hands and go to Vietnam himself. He finds financial backing in the form of a Texas oil tycoon (..read more »
62%
from 578 members
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Conan The Barbarian
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Narr), Ben Davidson, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Director: John Milius
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John Milius's jingoistic direction and pulpy screenplay fit perfectly into this film version of the Robert E. Howard fantasy story of the sword and sorcery hero, Conan the Barbarian. Complementing Mulius's heavy metal production is Arnold Schwarzenegger's leaden acting, which in any other context ..read more »
62%
from 10,133 members
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Conan The Barbarian - Blu-ray
(1981)
Starring: Narr), Ben Davidson, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Director: John Milius
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Mythical hero Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) vows to take revenge after the murder of his parents and destruction of his village. Determined to learn the 'riddle of steel', he sets off with his companions, Subotai the Mongol (Gerry Lopez) and Queen of Thieves (Sandahl Bergman), to kill Thulsa Doom (..read more »
73%
from 126 members
Not available for rental
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Apocalypse Now Redux
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Albert Hall, Laurence Fishburne
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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A new cut of the multi-million dollar Vietnam psychedelic epic, with director Francis Ford Coppola adding 55 minutes of deleted scenes. The Vietnam War rages and US Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent on a mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a renegade American officer who has ..read more »
73%
from 46,055 members
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1941
(1979)
Starring: Lorraine Gary, Ned Beatty, Toshiro Mifune
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Steven Spielberg's comedy is set in the paranoid Hollywood community during World War Two, when Tinseltown braced itself for an imminent attack by the Japanese just three days after America's attack on Pearl Harbour. A power cut and an enemy submarine sighting add to the panic. John Belushi, Dan ..read more »
57%
from 448 members
Not currently released
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Big Wednesday
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Lee Purcell, Joe Spinell, Patti D'Arbanville
Director: John Milius
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Jan-Michael Vincent plays a self-destructive beach bum to whom surfing is a Zen experience. We first meet Vincent in the devil-may-care 1960s, in the company of his carefree buddies William Katt and Gary Busey. The boys reunite ten years later, after one has served time in Vietnam. The beach is ..read more »
67%
from 1,839 member
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The Wind and the Lion
(1975)
Starring: Sean Connery, John Huston, Geoffrey Lewis
Director: John Milius
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At the turn of the century, a North African sheik kidnaps an American widow and her children in Tangiers, setting off a chain of international incidents. But while she's being held for ransom, the widow finds herself increasingly attracted to her captor. Then, Theodore Roosevelt--with thoughts of ..read more »
67%
from 34 members
Currently unavailable
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Dillinger
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Michelle Phillips, Geoffrey Lewis
Director: John Milius
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Warren Oates stars as John Dillinger in this account of the latter half of the notorious gangster's career up to his death in a police ambush outside the Biograph Theatre. Contains some of the most violent gunfights put on film.
62%
from 369 members
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Magnum Force
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Kip Niven, Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan
Director: Ted Post
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Clint Eastwood returns in the sequel to his smash hit cop movie 'Dirty Harry'. This time round Harry seems to have met his match in a group of renegade San Francisco law enforcers who are using policing methods which even he considers to be beyond the pale. As drugs bosses, pimps and other street ..read more »
70%
from 6,093 members
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Magnum Force - Blu-ray
(1973)
Starring: Kip Niven, Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan
Director: Ted Post
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Clint Eastwood returns in the sequel to his smash hit cop movie 'Dirty Harry'. This time round Harry seems to have met his match in a group of renegade San Francisco law enforcers who are using policing methods which even he considers to be beyond the pale. As drugs bosses, pimps and other street ..read more »
75%
from 953 members
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Jeremiah Johnson
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Richard Angarola, Stefan Gierasch, Tim McIntire
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Years before Kevin Costner danced with wolves, Robert Redford headed to the mountains to escape civilization in Sydney Pollack's wilderness western. Around 1850, ex-soldier Johnson (Redford) decides that he would rather live alone as a mountain man in Colorado than deal with society's constraints. ..read more »
71%
from 1,567 member
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Evel Knievel
(1971)
Starring: Ben Bentley, Joe Davis, Hal Baylor
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
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1971 biopic starring George Hamilton as daredevil Evel Knievel. While preparing to take a big leap for his next stunt, Knievel looks back on his life so far. The stuntman reflects on his relationship with his girlfriend, Linda (Sue Lyon), and remembers the time he spent in his home town of Butte, ..read more »
38%
from 5 members
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...Extremely daft and completely unrealistic action from John Milius. Just to think this guy wrote Apocolypse Now might be enough to rent this, along with the appearance of P...
