CanCon 101: Our Man Flint – Dead on Target (1977)
Updating the review database with a CanCon stinker that should’ve been made live – the crap-tastic Our Man Flint: Dead on Target (1976).
Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan
The Dream That Failed to Follow
The release of Follow That Dream (1962) on Blu from Twilight Time is a reminder of Elvis Presley’s natural acting talent, and the kind of work he rarely managed to find in the sixties due to Machiavellian management.
DVD: Our Man Flint – Dead on Target (1976)
It may be that Fox had wanted to follow up their popular Flint film series – Our Man Flint (1966) and In Like Flint (1967) – with a scaled down, less costly TV series, but this Vancouver-made pilot ranks as one of the worst CanCon productions around. It’s no surprise any hope of a series were thwarted by this stillborn concoction which showed little imagination or directorial skill…
BR: Follow That Dream (1962)
After the box office success of Blue Hawaii (1961), Elvis Presley starred in this forgotten oddball comedy about homesteaders who claim for themselves a plot of land besides a newly built highway in Florida, and their efforts to maintain their ownership in spite of a pushy state bureaucrat…
Timothy Williams’ Red Sky + upcoming podcast plans
Podcast interview with composer / orchestrator Timothy (Tim) Williams regarding his early years at the BBC, moving to L.A., and scoring Mario van Peebles’ Red Sky (2014) + upcoming podcast plans at KQKE.com.
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