{"id":9778,"date":"2014-09-29T02:24:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T06:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9778"},"modified":"2014-09-29T02:28:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T06:28:35","slug":"cancon-101-our-man-flint-dead-on-target-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9778","title":{"rendered":"CanCon 101: Our Man Flint &#8211; Dead on Target (1977)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/GayRowan_OurManFlint_TVM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9780\" alt=\"GayRowan_OurManFlint_TVM\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/GayRowan_OurManFlint_TVM.jpg\" width=\"302\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/GayRowan_OurManFlint_TVM.jpg 720w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/GayRowan_OurManFlint_TVM-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a>While updating a few links on the reviews of Twilight Time\u2019s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6313\">Our Man Flint<\/a><\/strong> (1966) and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6313\">In Like Flint<\/a><\/strong> (1967) Blu-rays, I came across a review of a film that was never published on this site as part of CanCon 101, my recurring feature on the good and the bad produced during Canada\u2019s tax shelter years.<\/p>\n<p>Introducing the crap-tastic CanCon TV pilot <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7203\">Our Man Flint: Dead on Target<\/a><\/strong> (1976).<\/p>\n<p>This low, low budget production features Ray Danton as a wooden Flint, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7209\">The Starlost<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s Gay Rowman, <strong>The Trouble with Tracey<\/strong>\u2019s Franz Russell, <strong>Danger Bay<\/strong>\u2019s Donnelly Rhodes, and a blink-fast-and-she\u2019s-gone Kim Cattrall, with meh direction by <strong>Starlost<\/strong>\u2019s Joseph Scanlan and a script co-written by <strong>Starlost<\/strong>\u2019s Norman Klenman.<\/p>\n<p>There are good films made by fine people in Canadian Film.<\/p>\n<p>This is not one of them, whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>This lopsided, pock-marked, green-stained potato was originally showcased in a <a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=4483\">prior CanCon 101 installment<\/a>, but I only made it live on the old site, so here it is where it belongs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming next<\/em>: the Roy Budd-scored version of <strong>Phantom of the Opera<\/strong>, plus later this week, reviews of Synapse\u2019s most excellent Blu-ray editions of CanCon classiques <strong>Curtains<\/strong> (1982) and <strong>Prom Night<\/strong> (1980)\u2026 and a related \/ forgotten gem no one&#8217;s likely heard of.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updating the review database with a CanCon stinker that should&#8217;ve been made live &#8211; the crap-tastic Our Man Flint: Dead on Target (1976).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3053,2319,3052],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2xI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9781,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9778\/revisions\/9781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}