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Damnation Alley

Post-nuclear Armageddon, the skies look like Yes album covers. Our small group of survivors — military men George Peppard, Jan-Michael Vincent and Paul Winfield — cruises around the wasteland in a cool LandMaster tram vehicle which is run by a Texas Instruments calculator. In their travels through “Damnation Alley,” they encounter giant scorpions, man-eating cockroaches […]

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Defiance

And even if it weren’t, the film lacks the spine-tingling spirit of those three grittier, dirtier, now-iconic efforts. One-time matinee idol Jan-Michael Vincent (“The Mechanic”) is Tommy, a tough, unemployed man trying to learn Spanish in order to get a job on a ship when he befriends a neighbor who pours water on his head […]

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