![]() The middle of the movie is classic Peckinpah. ![]() The romantic theme is 'Jill's Theme' from ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST with one note changed. And the music: to say it's a Morricone rip-off would be generous. The opening credits and first scene are classic Sergio Leone spaghetti western. This movie succeeds because its action traditions draw on a whole lot more than just martial arts. Cause here he costars with David Carradine. I don't know if it's because he's an egoist who doesn't want to play second-fiddle to anybody, if he refuses to play the villain, or if no A-lister will appear in a film with him, but I guess it doesn't matter. Outside of DELTA FORCE, it's very, very rarely that we see Chuck co-starring with anybody worth a damn. "It may be a game to you, Falco, but if I find out you're playing, I'm gonna have your little ass!"īy the way, that line was delivered to a little person crime boss who's about to be taken down a notch.Īnyway. We'll go with: "I've been real busy." "Oh boy, same old trouble, huh?" ".My kind of trouble doesn't take vacations."Ī lot of what I have to say about LONE WOLF MCQUADE can be summed by the following: David Carradine is the man that got in his way." AND "The 'Mad Dog' Criminal.The 'Lone Wolf' Lawman.The Ultimate Showdown."īest exchange: Too many to pick just one. Tag-line: "When Norris meets Carradine all hell breaks loose!" AND "Chuck Norris is Lone Wolf McQuade. Jones, David Carradine, William Sanderson, R.G. At the very least, such a character violates my belief that the world has never produced a successful midget who wasn’t in show business.Notable Cast or Crew: Chuck Norris, L.Q. ![]() I can believe a lot of things, but not Senor Sausage Fingers as a kingpin. I have to plug a funny write-up from ‘Matt’, at the site “Ruthless Reviews” : “…worst of all, the crime boss is a Mexican midget in a wheelchair. With Leon Isaac Kennedy, Robert Beltram, Sharon Farrell and William Sanderson. The beauteous La Carrera, 38, was at her popularity peak, appearing that same year in the Bond opus Never Say Never Again and pretty much walking away with the film. ![]() What more needs to be debated when the first thing McQuade does, after being wounded and buried alive in his truck, is take a big swig of beer and splash the rest on his face? Pride rises. I’m not a Chuck Norris fan (never was), and I deplore his politics (sincere, it seems, and for all I know he’s a great guy: whatever) but objectively I have to report to my lib pals that this 108-minute hoot does not ring the death knell for Western Civ. Music score is from Francesco De Masi, paying homage to Ennio Morricone. Armstrong and others wisely play with tongue in cheek, direction is decent, sound effects garish: end result an entertaining action pic, as was intended and what Norris adorers ate up. A little r&r is spent wrestling with Barbara Carerra, but mostly it’s wipe-outs, ridiculous from the first punch. Norris whales on David Carradine’s gun-smuggling terrorists like so many cucarachas. McQuade is the most superhuman Texas Ranger ever to take on half of greater El Paso/Juarez brooking little interference from meddling supervisors or Feds and taking nary a breather to change clothes between fights, which occur about every ten minutes.
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