Malone

Director: Harley Cokeliss, Harley Cokliss Harley Cokeliss

Overview

A former CIA agent (Burt Reynolds) is trying to take life easy on a trip to Oregon, but car troubles strand him out in the middle of nowhere. After being taken in by the owner of the service station, the agent comes out of retirement to take on a right-wing developer (Cliff Robertson) who is planning to take over America.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/10/2011
UPC:	0883904255611
Original Release:	1987
Source:	MGM
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:32:00
Sales rank:	27,634

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Burt Reynolds	Richard Malone
Cliff Robertson	Charles Delaney
Cynthia Gibb	Jo Barlow
Lauren Hutton	Jamie
Kenneth McMillan	Hawkins
Scott Wilson	Paul Barlow
Philip Anglim	Harvey
Tracey Walter	Calvin Bollard
Dennis Burkley	Dan Bollard
Alex Diakun	Madrid
Brooks Gardner	Actor
Mike Kirton	Frank
Duncan Fraser	Malone's Target
Janne Mortil	Helen
Campbell Lane	Tom Riggs
Tom McBeath	Stringbean
Don MacKay	Dr. Florian
Tom Herton	Eli
Blu Mankuma	Rev. Danby
Walter Marsh	Actor
Graydon Gould	Lawyer
Bill Buck	Banker
Don Davis	Buddy
Frank C. Turner	Andy
Mavor Moore	Hausmann
Stephen Miller	Clinton
Donna White	Actor
Dwight McFee	Harry
Christianne Hirt	Girl in Wagon
Brooks Patterson Gardner	Patterson
David Newman	Composer

Technical Credits

Christopher Frank

Rudolph Wurlitzer

Bud Davis	Stunts
Dennis Dion	Special Effects
Léo L. Fuchs	Producer
Dean Lockwood	Special Effects
Christopher Frank	Screenwriter
Harley Cokeliss	Director
Carole Kenneally	Casting
Rudolph Wurlitzer	Screenwriter
Richard Van Dyke	Sound/Sound Designer
Harley Cokliss	Director

Editorial Reviews

This oft-eccentric action potboiler is one of the more diverting Burt Reynolds vehicles from his late 1980's era. The script has a clever paranoid-political thriller plot hook at its heart but basically plays like an updated western, with Reynolds filling the role of a reluctant hero who straps on his gun to save a small town from the forces of corruption. It's over-the-top to the point of campiness, particularly during the overblown action sequences, and has some questionable story elements (like the Cynthia Gibb character flirting heavily with the a-few-decades-her-senior Reynolds). However, the cast of familiar faces and surefooted direction from Harley Cokliss keep it from going off the rails. Reynolds plays his moody role well, allowing his natural star quality to do the heavy lifting, and he receives nice support from Scott Wilson as the small town's last honest man. There's also a memorably intense performance from Cliff Robertson as the obsessed mogul bedeviling the film's small town setting. Cokliss gives the film a sleek, kinetic style and gets lots of mileage from atmospheric lensing by Gerald Hirschfeld and a rousing musical score by David Newman. The end result is essentially a big-budget version a b-movie programmer - but it delivers the goods and has enough distinctive touches to make it worthwhile for b-movie fans with a yen for old-fashioned action flicks.