The Austrian bodybuilder took his first major role playing Robert E. Howard’s primitive mercenary hero in the adventure fantasy from director John Milius and screenwriter Oliver Stone.
Tag: John Milius
Last chance: Sean Connery in ‘The Wind and the Lion’ on HBO Max
The Wind and the Lion (1975), the sophomore feature of director John Milius, is a small-scale version of the kind of grand historical epic that blossomed in the 1960s. Set in 1904 Morocco and loosely based on a true historical incident, the 1972 historical adventure stars Sean Connery as Berber chieftain and rebel leader Mulai […]
Warren Oates is ‘Dillinger’ on Amazon Prime Video
John Dillinger was the most notorious of the Depression-era gangsters and his exploits (and attendant newspaper coverage) made him a romantic anti-hero to many of the folks who felt betrayed by the bankers and businessmen of the country. Dillinger (1973), the directorial debut of John Milius, plays on that image of the gentleman gangster who […]