R.J. Walker Movies
- 1991
- R
Set in a strip club, and stylistically bearing more than a passing resemblance to Flashdance, this drama attempts to show the peelers as people who consider stripping an art form and therefore do all they can to find new and aesthetically pleasing ways to take off their clothes for a leering, drunken group of aficionados. Much of the story centers on the attempts of one stripper to use her experiences at the club to hone her dancing skills so she can win a dance contest and get a scholarship at a prestigious school. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jeff Conaway, Michelle Foreman, (more)
Wings Hauser directed and stars in this mystery about a Las Vegas detective who learns that a woman believed dead is actually alive and well and involved in a blackmail plot. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
- Starring:
- Wings Hauser, Darcy de Moss, (more)
- 1989
- R
Advertised as a parody of cheapo-sleazo biker flicks, Easy Wheels looks so much like the real thing that one wonders whether or not we were originally supposed to take the whole megillah seriously. Biker Bruce (Paul Le Mat) and She Wolf (Eileen Davidson) forget their mutual animosity long enough to plan a mass abduction of female babies. The idea is to create a race of super biker chicks, who will enslave mankind and set up a leather-jacketed matriarchy. Bruce isn't completely sold on this idea and bides his time until he gets a chance to undermine She Wolf. Filmed in glamorous Des Moines and Dubuque, Easy Wheels makes all those American-International flicks of the 1960s look like the collected works of Antonioni. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Paul Le Mat, Eileen Davidson, (more)
- 1989
This film represents the first cinematic venture by the comic troupe Duck's Breath Mystery Theater. Sight gags abound. The story concerns the efforts of a Hollywood type to make a low-budget horror film in his home state of Iowa. His family's proximity causes endless complications. The film-within-a-film concerns the adventures of a giant radioactive cow. The film's comic highlight is the difficulty faced by extras when the cow horns stuck to their heads with super strong adhesive won't come off. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- 1988
- R
Peter Rader directed this horror film about a teen-aged orphan named Lynn (Kim Valentine) who accompanies her young brother David (Eric Foster) to live on their grandparents' farm after their father dies. Before long, it becomes obvious that all is not right on the farm, and that the grandparents (Ida Lee and Len Lesser) are hiding a dark secret. Cult favorite Brinke Stevens stars as the kids' insane mother, whom the grandparents have drugged to control her homicidal impulses, and screenwriter Peter Jensen provides the atmospheric photography. Some chilling moments and a particularly creepy performance by Lesser make this average slasher film worthwhile. Producer Nico Mastorakis had co-written the story for the abominable The Greek Tycoon (1978) before turning to genre filmmaking. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
- Starring:
- Eric Foster, Kim Valentine, (more)
- 1931
Like its namesake "Cinerama" production of 1957, the 1931 British release Windjammer was filmed during the actual voyage of a sailing vessel, the "Grace Harwar." The five-month voyage began in South Australia and ended in England, requiring a tricky negotiation around Cape Horn. This excursion was the brainchild of Tasmania-based journalists A.J. Villiers and R.J. Walker, who co-wrote the script and collaborated on the photography. The "actuality" footage is woven into a fictional narrative about a homeless tramp who manages to get a crewman's job on the Grace Harwar, in hopes of making his way back to England; unfortunately, he is killed just before reaching his destination. Ironically, R.J. Walker died at sea as the filming was in its final stages. The story of Windjammer was also set down in book form by A. J. Villiers as By Way of Cape Horn. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Michael Hogan, Hal Gordon, (more)
