Chad Hamilton Movies
Mimi Lesseos plays a female wrestler in this martial arts actioner. After winning the women's world wrestling title she goes home to celebrate with her family. There she sees her brother tooting cocaine. Later, Lesseos learns that a dancer-friend has broken her leg and so offers to fill in for her in her Las Vegas revue. While Lesseos performs, her brother is kick-boxed to death by the evil Harry Lee, a Chinese drug lord. To avenge his death, Lesseos must challenge Lee's female body guard to a deadly serious kickboxing match. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Comedian John Candy, who died during the making of this poorly received comic western, plays James Harlow, a 19th century wagon master who is heading back east with a wagon train full of oddball characters who have had their fill of Western life. They include ex-doctor Phil Taylor (Richard Lewis), kind-hearted prostitute Belle (Ellen Greene), and a bookseller, Julian (John C. McGinley). Harlow is a drunken, washed-up leader who frequently gets lost. The travelers eventually discover that he was a member of the famous Donner party, which resorted to cannibalism when stranded in the mountains. Railroad magnates try to turn back the party, figuring it's bad publicity for people out East to learn that the West is not really a paradise. The tycoons hire gunfighters and villains to stop the expedition, but local Indians protect the wagons, because they are glad to see disgruntled white settlers leaving their lands. This "backwards" western was based on a story by Jerry Abrahamson. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi
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- John Candy, Richard Lewis, (more)
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