Who Dares Wins [1982] [DVD]

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Who Dares Wins was panned by some critics as being right-wing. Sight & Sound described the film as "hawkish". [24] Derek Malcolm in The Guardian called the film "truly dreadful". [25] The terrorists demand that an American nuclear missile be fired at the nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch in western Scotland, to demonstrate the terrible effects of nuclear weapons. If their demands are not met, they will start killing the hostages. The most remarkable thing about Rose's script is that Euan Lloyd must have looked at it at some point and thought "This is a good script", which is hard to believe. Or at least "This script is adequate", which is not much easier to believe.

This course saw one of the coldest winters. I had known in my 5 years on training wing. it was very much the survival of the strongest and the fittest both physically and mentally. The dialoge between Judy Davis , and Richard Widmark who plays Arthur Curry, fictional American secretary of state, joined by Robert Webber , who portrays Ira Potter head of America's fictional Strategic Air Command, truly exposed the hypocrisy of those Pseudo-Pacifists, who hide under causes that in the surface promote peace, to carry out their terrorist agenda. this dialoge is too good to give away. His portrayal of a hard-man in The Professionals earned him the role of Captain Peter Skellen in the film 'Who Dares Wins.'

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While the plot seems a little slow at times (an illusion created by watching too many hollywood action movies), and (as many people here have commented) the dialog can get a little cheesy, add to the fact that the hairstyles, clothing, vehicles, etc... look dated now. But that's not what I was watching the film for. And oh, the action. The hand-to-hand fights are brutal and balletic. The two action pieces at the end of the film, one dealing with the precision rescue of Rosalind Lloyd and the other the retaking of the hostage house are unforgettable. The terrorist take over the American embassy in London and ask impossible demands of the government. In 1976, the dramatist and television producer Brian Clemens wrote a new British television crime-action drama series entitled The Professionals, modelled on the success of the hit American television series Starsky and Hutch. It was also intended to be a more realistic follow-up to a prior successful television series that he had just produced about government agents entitled The New Avengers.

After being first diagnosed in 2008, Collins died at the age of 67 from cancer, in Los Angeles on 27 November 2013. [1] [3] Shortly before his death, he had returned to visit the United Kingdom, spending some time in Merseyside. [33] With Roy Budd's thunderous theme music, spot-on cinematography and action set pieces refreshingly absent of blue screen visual effects. "Who Dares Wins" is pure action movie through and through.>

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Let's face it, though, we all wanted to be Bodie and not old Velcro-hair. Bodie looked cool and smart (he never wore jeans in any of the episodes) got the decent crumpet (who due to plot lines would conveniently die at the end of the episode), had a decent car (as long as you liked Capris) and even rode bikes. President Reagan liked it, which meant no critic worthy of his two thumbs could be caught liking it. I liked it so much, I read everything I could on the SAS. If you enjoy watching films Maureen Dowd and Robert Scheer would never understand, this one's for you. Roy Budd and Jerry & Marc Donahue – Commando (Who Dares Wins) Bande Originale du Film (1983, Vinyl)". Discogs. 11 August 1983.

Judy Davis was cast on the strength of her performance in My Brilliant Career. She said she did not base her character on Patty Hearst as she felt Hearst was ultimately not serious about politics; she was inspired by Bommi Baumann and his book Terror or love? [14] Filming [ edit ]Now supposedly a civilian, Skellen rolls up to a club where the group's leaders hang out, and where Frankie appears in anti-nuclear agit-prop music and dance performances, where she plays the not too taxing role of an American nuclear missile.

The first scenes were shot in Portobello Road market in January 1982. The concert, speech and subsequent fight were staged at the Union Chapel in Islington, London. Skellen's house and the hostage taking was shot in Kynance Mews in South Kensington. [15] With so many then current and future 007 people working on the film, the professionalism is impressive: Maurice Binder (title design), Syd Cain (art direction), Phil Meheux (photography), Gordon McCallum (sound), not to mention the awesome stunt work of Bob Simmons and Stuart St. Paul. Oh, and pretty-boy Lewis Collins was strongly considered as a Roger Moore replacement; probably wouldn't have been too bad (though his running down the hallway at the end of WDW, shirt open, chest hair rippling in the wind was a bit much!). The film was the sixth-highest grosser at the UK box office in 1982. [20] (Another source put it 10th highest. [21])As is sometimes the case with British films, Who Dares Wins was given a more generic title for its American release, where it was known as The Final Option. One modern review of the film I read stated that the film went by the unfortunate title of "The Final Solution", but no, it wasn't quite that bad.