![]() Floors the accelerator, and drives that mother right out of the grave. They bury him in his supercharged, customized pickup truck. With Eastwood, it was the time he killed three men with one bullet. Series characters always have one archetypal scene. If the movie does well at the box office (and if word-of-mouth works, it will), it could be the beginning of a series for Norris. But the movie respects the plot, and keeps it moving, and a lot of excitement is generated. ![]() Jones lopes through a few scenes, and Sharon Farrell is counterpoint as Norris's former wife.Īll of these people are thrown together into a plot that is, of course, essentially meaningless. The movie surrounds him with a gallery of interesting characters, played by colorful stars: David Carradine is Rawley, the evil local criminal and karate master Barbara Carrera is lovely, as usual, as Carradine's wife and Norris's mistress Robert Beltran plays Kayo Ramas, Norris's Mexican American sidekick Leon Isaac Kennedy is the federal officer grizzled L. McQuade, a renegade modern-day Texas Ranger who works alone, likes to work with machine-guns, deals out justice on the spot, and hardly ever says much of anything. That's what he's found in "Lone Wolf McQuade." This is an action movie. ![]() Like Eastwood's Man With No Name, he needed a personality that would fit, that would contain his kung fu skills and allow him ways of expression not limited to flying fists and deadly elbows. What Norris was really looking for in all those pictures, I guess, was the right character. On Monday-Thursday specials run from 4-6pm and Friday specials run most of the afternoon from 11-4pm. Original Victor Kowalski litho is one of the most iconic images of the early century, with a wolf gazing down from a snowy peak towards distant homes with lights in the window stars above and even the wolf's breath can be seen in. (The best of them was "Eye for an Eye," directed by Steve Carver, who also directed "McQuade.") The most you could say for a Chuck Norris film was that it did not have downright contempt for its action audiences it tried to be better than the interchangeable chop-socky movies from Hong Kong, and Norris made an energetic, likable star. (312) 600-9391 Lone Wolf Tavern is a low key spot for happy hour in Chicagos West Loop. You are bidding on: A VINTAGE 1925 ORIGINAL FRAMED LITHOGRAPH VICTOR KOWALSKI 'LONE WOLF' FROM BORIN OF CHICAGO. He's been around for several years, in a series of karate and kung fu movies that were almost always better than average - but not a lot better than average.
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