Dean Reed Movies
A native of Denver, CO, American actor Dean Reed started his career as a folk singer. He is best known for working in Euro-Westerns. He first lived in South America, then in East Germany. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide- 1987
This drama features a man who must save the life of the person who saved him as a child. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1985
The itinerant life of American singer and actor Dean Reed is the subject of this biographical documentary. Reed was raised in Denver, and after he recorded a few songs in Hollywood, he ended up travelling around South America and then settling in Chile for awhile. He found Chile to be a place where he could garner larger audiences for his music and support Allende at the same time. After the dictator Pinochet came to power and thousands of Chileans were killed, Reed left for Italy and started touring in Eastern Europe and the former USSR. Eventually, he also became active in films and was in Denver in 1985 for the premiere of this documentary about him.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- 1984
Kei (Hiroyuki Watanabe) is a professional motorcycle racer with a young daughter from an earlier marriage and a busy schedule that takes him to Berlin during the racing season and to Canada in-between. Sam (Leslie Malton) is a motorcycle mechanic who meets Kei on the racing circuit and the two eventually fall in love with each other - in a most charming and captivating manner. The unique quality of this standard love story is that absolutely nothing is made of the fact that Kei is Japanese and Sam is both American and Caucasian - it is a breakthrough in finally ignoring race. As in many other Japanese films, the original title is an English word, "Windy" - and inscrutable in its application to this story. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hiroyuki Watanabe, Leslie Malton, (more)
- 1982
American singer Dean Reed wrote, directed, and starred in this story about Joe, a singing cowboy, who inexplicably does things like sleep with boa constrictors and wrestle pigs when he is not warbling songs for appreciative audiences. A popular Czech singer, Vaclav Neckar teams up with him as an able and melodious sidekick. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dean Reed, Vaclav Neckar, (more)
- 1978
In this biographical film, Dean Reed reenacts the final days of his friend, Chilean folksinger Victor Jara. When the military rebelled against the regime of Salvador Allende in September 1973, many of his supporters, including Jara, died. The story as it is told is based on the recollections of the singer's wife and family who live in exile in London. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dean Reed
- 1974
The continuous power struggle between racketeers and police detectives for the urban area is featured in this film. ~ All Movie Guide
Adiós Sabata is rather odd entry in this spaghetti Western series. It continues the story of Sabata and boasts a plot that closely replicates the first film's key elements, from the cool and mysterious gunslinger hero down to the stunts, the gimmicky weapons, and the presence of a potentially traitorous sidekick for Sabata. However, Adiós Sabata introduces a new actor with an entirely different persona into the role of Sabata: Yul Brynner is as terse with his dialogue as Lee Van Cleef was in the first Sabata, but he brings a brooding, ominous undercurrent to the role that gives the film an added bit of tension. Thankfully, this tension between the familiar elements and Brynner's intense presence works in favor of Adiós Sabata instead of against it. Other highlights include a fun supporting performance from Pedro Sanchez as a mouthy revolutionary-turned-bandit and a rousing finale packed with plenty of stunts and gunplay. On the downside, Frank Kramer's direction, while stylish, is erratic in its pacing, and this leads to the occasional dull stretch, but the film's sense of color and lighthearted tone keep it from going off the rails. In short, Adiós Sabata might not be an obvious first choice for a spaghetti Western novice, but it is solid, engaging fare for someone already into the genre. ~ Donald Guarisco, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Yul Brynner, Dean Reed, (more)
- 1966
A student resorts to foul play to keep an older man away from his girlfriend in this routine drama, a tepid remake of the 1941 film Adolescence. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Palito Ortega, Dean Reed, (more)
