mardi 13 décembre 2016

Rock Hudson


Rock Hudson, a legend



Embryo 1976

Geneticist Dr. Paul Holliston (Rock Hudson) lives alone in his rambling clinic/home after his wife has passed away from a car crash in which he was the driver. Feeling constant pangs of guilt from his assistant, his sister-in-law Martha (Diane Ladd) Holliston finally begins his medical work due to his car accidentally hitting a dog one dark and stormy night. In the process of attempting to save the dog's life he manages to save one her unborn puppies by utilizing a new serum which speeds up the growth, and intelligence of the animal, but develops a savage side to the personality. When Holliston manages to see what his discovery can offer the world, he applies the same thing to an un-born human and develops a beautiful female Victoria (Barbara Carrera) who launches full grown from the incubator in two weeks. Victoria is highly intelligent but shows a dark side and whenthe serum begins to have an adverse effect on her, she discovers she must have serum from unborn fetuses to stay alive. 




Seconds 1966

 Director: John Frankenheimer
Writers: Lewis John Carlino (screenplay), David Ely (based on the novel by)
Stars: Rock Hudson, Frank Campanella, John Randolph

 Middle-aged banker Arthur Hamilton is given the opportunity to start a completely new life when he receives calls from his old friend Charlie. The only problem is that Charlie is supposed to be dead. Hamilton is eventually introduced to a firm that will fake his death and create an entirely new look and life for him. After undergoing physical reconstruction surgery and months of training and psychotherapy, Hamilton returns to the world in the form of artist Tony Wilson. He has a nice house in Malibu and a manservant, a company employee who is there to assist him with his adjustment. He finds that the life he had hoped for isn't quite what he expected and asks the company to go through the process with surprising results.

Chuck Connors




Chuck Connors : A true lefthanded star



Chuck Connors was born Kevin Joseph Connors in Brooklyn, New York, to Marcella (Londrigan) and Alban Francis "Allan" Connors. His parents were immigrants from the Dominion of Newfoundland (now part of Canada), and were of Irish descent. Chuck and his two-years-younger sister, Gloria, grew up in a working-class section of the west side of Brooklyn, where their father worked the local docks as a longshoreman.

He player in many movies from the end of the 50's til his death in 1992.




In the Sci-fi movies, Connors played into movies such :





This 1973 film, based on the novel by Harry Harrison, won a Nebula Award for "Best Science Fiction Film" and marks the final screen appearance of Edward G. Robinson. It predicts a Malthusian future for the human race; overpopulation has overstressed the food-production capacity of the planet, resulting in desperation at all levels. Detective Thorn (Charlton Heston) shares an extremely tiny "apartment" with retired researcher Soi Roth (Edward G. Robinson). In the overpopulation depicted here, it is impossible to get anywhere without walking over, under, or around someone. Thorn has been hired to investigate the murder.





As usual in those movies, a lefthanded play a righthanded










Directed by: Kinji Fukasaku.
Starring Chuck Connors, Glenn Ford, Olivia Hussey, George Kennedy, Masao Kusakari, Edward James Olmos, Henry Silva, Bo Svenson, Robert Vaughn, Stephanie Faulkner, Sonny Chiba, Colin Fox.



A military-engineered virus, released during a plane crash, kills the entire human population. The only survivors are scientists in Antarctica, who desperately try to find a cure and save what is left of the planet from further destruction. In 1982, a shady transaction is occurring between an East German scientist, Dr. Krause, and a group of Americans. It is revealed that MM88 is a deadly virus, created accidentally by an American geneticist, that amplifies the potency of any other virus or bacterium it comes into contact with. The Americans recover the MM88, which was stolen from a lab in the US the year before, but the virus is released, creating a pandemic initially known as the “Italian Flu”.

Within seven months, virtually all the world’s population has died off. However, the virus is inactive at temperatures below -10 degrees Celsius, and the polar winter has spared the 855 men and eight women stationed in Antarctica. The British nuclear submarine HMS Nereid joins the scientists after sinking a Soviet submarine whose infected crew attempts to make landfall near Palmer Station.
Just as the group begins to repopulate their new home, it is revealed that an earthquake will activate the Automated Reaction System (ARS) and launch the United States nuclear arsenal.
The Soviets have their own version of the ARS that will fire off their weapons in return, including one targeting Palmer Station. Yoshizumi and Major Carter embark aboard the Nereid on a mission to shut down the ARS, protected from MM88 by an experimental vaccine.
The submarine arrives at Washington, D.C., and Yoshizumi and Carter make a rush for the ARS command bunker. However, they reach the room too late, and all but a few of the survivors (who left aboard an icebreaker at the same time as the Nereid) perish in the nuclear exchange. Over the course of years Yoshizumi walks back towards Antarctica. Upon reaching Tierra del Fuego in 1988, he encounters the survivors from the icebreaker.