Movie Alert for All Our Conspiracy Theorists!

[Watchdog]

For all members who have HBO and access to their free Movies On Demand feature, there's a neat little film available for viewing right now.

In 1984, an almost forgotten film called Flashpoint was released. It featured Kris Kristofferson and Treat Williams as two Texas border patrol officers who discover a wrecked jeep buried in a dry riverbed. In the jeep are a skeleton, a case full of money, and a bolt action rifle.

To me, the Kristofferson and Williams characters are totally believable.

A fairly young Kurtwood Smith is eerily and dangerously sleazy as a "government" guy sent down to Texas to "fix things". Plus he carries a 1911, which pleases me, even though he can't hit a man walking right at him from about fifty or sixty feet (I reckon he could blame it on the gun). You'll also recognize the two female leads in early performances in their careers, Tess Harper for one, one year after Tender Mercies and twenty-three years before No Country for Old Men.

I won't say any more about it, but I love this little movie. It deserved to do better at the box office than it did, and far as I'm concerned...well, I won't say the scenario it portrays is outside the realm of possibility.

If you didn't and still don't believe the Warren Report, you'll like this movie. The truth is out there.

It'll be available for viewing for a while, I think. Watch it any time of day.

 

[duman444]

Kurtwood Smith

I remember this movie. Good Flick. Wonder if the Coen brothers used some of the plot devices for No place for Old Men. I see some similarities.

Kurtwood Smith must have only had hair as a teenager!

He can play a badass or a grumpy old man with equal fervor.

 

[Watchdog]

Kurtwood Smith must have only had hair as a teenager!

I thought of that same thing! For all we know, he may have been bald since birth.

 

[Grayfox]

I remember seeing this many years ago on HBO. I can't remember the details, but the fact that I do remember means I liked it.

 

[Marshwheeling]

I remember this movie. Good Flick. Wonder if the Coen brothers used some of the plot devices for No place for Old Men. I see some similarities.

Errrr, the Coen brothers got all their plot devices from Cormac McCarthy, who wrote the book. Where he got them, I don't know.

 

[walkin jack]

That was a very good movie. I put it in my "sleeper" category". I have always liked Christopherson's acting whether or not the movie critics agree. I hadn't thought about this movie for a long time. Guess I'll see if I can get it. Thanks!!