Rutger Hauer was in so many movies, but seemingly more Good Guy roles than Bad Guy. A great actor but very underrated, He was very handsome in the eighties, but very much better at being a bad boy, I prefer him as the villain...
I don't think this movie is as bad as everyone says. If you pay the attention that the movie demands it's actually pretty riveting. I like it for the fact that its still very much a Sam Peckinpah movie but nothing like any of his other films.
I hate type-casting, but at the same time there are a few people out there who I simply can't help but remember fondly in a role I loved. One of whom is Craig T. Nelson as Hayden Fox, COACH of Minnesota State's Screaming Eagles. Someone who often comes to mind with Burt Lancaster is Kirk Douglas who had a memorable cameo in an episode of the '90s sitcom. I always wondered what the connection was and after seeing Burt in this I simply can't help but wonder... RIP to Kirk, Burt, John, Jerry, Rutger and Dennis. "The Osterman Weekend" was a return to form from Peckinpah's most famous and quite frankly my personal favorite of his, "Salad Days".
J.P., as soon as you kneel that ofinin veehickle, Ms. Peerson just called. Seems the dog's foamin' all at the mouth. She's got him locked up in the shed...Wonderin' if you'd like ta come ova n' shoot it fo' her...
When you look at this younger-ish Rutger Hauer, you can see a little Baryshnikov in his eyes, as well as when you see Baryshnikov, you can see a very young Sir Anthony Hopkins....3 very talented men with similar looks....btw, saw this movie years ago and enjoyed it...
You should. It's very good and rich in detail regarding the world of espionage and politics. It does get very complicated towards the end, but it's worth reading.
I must check it out one day. A few months ago, I read the original novel of The Osterman Weekend and it was pretty much the same, but was a lot more in-depth, complex and more graphic in places. Tanner was also a lot taller and modelled a bit more on Dirty Harry towards the end.
@@j.j.campbell241 I believe he was; I haven't seen that one in years. He seems to have done as much comedy as serious roles. Even those latter roles usually had a snarky sense of humor- Jack Deth could hold his own with any Bruce Campbell smart-ass! In "Osterman", his motorcycle cop wasn't on screen but for maybe half a minute, but he still stood out ["I like your stuff, Mr. Osterman, but I find your writing a little- strident."]. He also did a lot of TV roles, appearing as Barry Allen's older [cop] brother in the original "Flash" TV series pilot. He portrayed a rather scary school principal in "21 Jump Street" and played the Nick Nolte role in a TV pilot for "Down and Out in Beverly Hills". All of this barely cracks it- he's been a busy man...
@@j.j.campbell241 I honestly couldn't remember, so I looked up his filmography, and -holy crap!- forget " 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon"; I think that old TT has been around even more. By the way, he WAS in "Cherry 2000". He was also in seven [!!] Trancer movies [ Helen Hunt being in the first], "Rhinestone" [with Stallone and Dolly Parton], "Iron Eagles" [with Louis Gossett Jr.], "Fade to Black" [Dennis Christopher], "Uncommon Valor" [ Gene Hackman and Patrick Swayze], "Volunteers" [Tom Hanks, John Candy, Gedde "Long Duck Dong" Wannatabe], and "Near Dark" [ which I highly recommend, starring Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jeanette Goldstein. and Adrian Pasdar]. In the last one, his part is the father of a vampire victim and he has some decent screen time. Unfortunately, his parts in both "Valor" and "Eagles" is very brief. He also co- starred in "Metalstorm", a forgetable 1980s low -budgeter that was originally in 3-D. [Even the hulking Richard Moll couldn't save this stinker!] A lot of his B and Indie-type movies gave him more screen time than the mainstream ones.
@moviefreak2011 I didn't know about Stephen King writing (or about to write) a Sam Peckinpah movie, but that would have been brilliant. What was that novel called? It would have been from the mid to late 1980s I assume. Sam was a well-known hellraiser which I do know and like you said, that contributed to his downfall which is a shame. Directors heavily influenced by him were James Glickenhaus (The Exterminator) and Walter Hill (48 Hours).
@Banner1979 I know it was lol. He was going to make a movie with Stephen King writing it before he died which King turned it into a novel later on. Too bad that he died but when you think about it, it was coming because he was in poor shape by the time he made this movie because of his alcoholic behavior so it was a matter of time.
I found this movie in a charity shop, one of those freebies with a sunday paper. I've played it a couple of times, but the biggest drag are the sex scenes. Do they really think polystyrene boobs are a turn-on ? Or perhaps they are just workshopped. Call me old-fashioned but the film was virtually unwatchable during the first half. Breasts should wobble.
360SRH 2 Blasphemy. I saw the film and it's ahead of the game in terms of Big Brother mentality in a post-Sept 11 world while twisting lies into truth and vice versa. The Osterman Weekend is an underrated film.
Roy Phillips please tell me who was responsible for killing his wife in the beginning? I meant more if peckinpah fans are looking for more of his hits, this isn't it. It feels like none of his other movies, cross of iron, and straw dogs are two of my favs
360SRH 2 Danforth, the Burt Lancaster character, had Fassett's wife killed, and I'm a fan of Peckinpah's work because I like his sense of honorable men in a dishonorable world.
360SRH 2 Peckinpah hated the source novel. Tried to have the script re-written. Final edit taken out of his hands. He just wanted to direct again, and it was just a job offered to him. Alan Sharp didn’t like his own screenplay either.
It probably is one of his worst but still interesting and I would definitely tell a Peckinpah fan to check it out. Also if rumors are true and he directed this while in terrible health and coked out of his mind it actually is quite remarkable it wasn’t unwatchable.
![[TH] VALORANT Champions Seoul - Group Stage Day 6 - EDG vs G2](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vS-fmO6SAjY/mqdefault.jpg)
Meg Foster and her hypnotic green eyes!
RIP beautiful man, Rutger Hauer.
R.I.P. Rutger Hauer
Rutger Hauer was in so many movies, but seemingly more Good Guy roles than Bad Guy. A great actor but very underrated, He was very handsome in the eighties, but very much better at being a bad boy, I prefer him as the villain...
The HITCHER was one of his best villains!
Great cast, great movie, great director!....
I don't think this movie is as bad as everyone says. If you pay the attention that the movie demands it's actually pretty riveting. I like it for the fact that its still very much a Sam Peckinpah movie but nothing like any of his other films.
Loved the novel. I read it in 5 days.
I read it in three on adderall at 19.
No sweat started and finished today, wothout drugs
I read it in 22 mins while doing push-ups
They just showed the whole movie in 2,5 mins
I hate type-casting, but at the same time there are a few people out there who I simply can't help but remember fondly in a role I loved. One of whom is Craig T. Nelson as Hayden Fox, COACH of Minnesota State's Screaming Eagles. Someone who often comes to mind with Burt Lancaster is Kirk Douglas who had a memorable cameo in an episode of the '90s sitcom. I always wondered what the connection was and after seeing Burt in this I simply can't help but wonder... RIP to Kirk, Burt, John, Jerry, Rutger and Dennis. "The Osterman Weekend" was a return to form from Peckinpah's most famous and quite frankly my personal favorite of his, "Salad Days".
pitch perfect. meg foster and her crossbow. Peckinpah's glorious swan song...
J.P., as soon as you kneel that ofinin veehickle, Ms. Peerson just called. Seems the dog's foamin' all at the mouth. She's got him locked up in the shed...Wonderin' if you'd like ta come ova n' shoot it fo' her...
When you look at this younger-ish Rutger Hauer, you can see a little Baryshnikov in his eyes, as well as when you see Baryshnikov, you can see a very young Sir Anthony Hopkins....3 very talented men with similar looks....btw, saw this movie years ago and enjoyed it...
You should. It's very good and rich in detail regarding the world of espionage and politics. It does get very complicated towards the end, but it's worth reading.
i didnt know rutger hauer was in this as well
I must check it out one day. A few months ago, I read the original novel of The Osterman Weekend and it was pretty much the same, but was a lot more in-depth, complex and more graphic in places. Tanner was also a lot taller and modelled a bit more on Dirty Harry towards the end.
you sure can see a lot of images only by reading on those pages
Rutger Hauer was a tall man, about 6'3" in his young days as he aged he was a little shorter.
I'm thinking about getting the special edition of this.
RIP Bill
A 'TURTLE" ' stranger ?!?@0:24
@moviefreak2011 And it was also his last ever movie before he died in 1984.
Great cast; if you do watch this film, look for B-movie legend Tim Thomerson [Trancers] in a cameo role.
Was he the tough blonde ditz in "Who's Harry Crumb"?
@@j.j.campbell241 I believe he was; I haven't seen that one in years. He seems to have done as much comedy as serious roles. Even those latter roles usually had a snarky sense of humor- Jack Deth could hold his own with any Bruce Campbell smart-ass! In "Osterman", his motorcycle cop wasn't on screen but for maybe half a minute, but he still stood out ["I like your stuff, Mr. Osterman, but I find your writing a little- strident."].
He also did a lot of TV roles, appearing as Barry Allen's older [cop] brother in the original "Flash" TV series pilot. He portrayed a rather scary school principal in "21 Jump Street" and played the Nick Nolte role in a TV pilot for "Down and Out in Beverly Hills". All of this barely cracks it- he's been a busy man...
@@catmandude1800 Was he in "Cherry 2000"?
@@j.j.campbell241 I honestly couldn't remember, so I looked up his filmography, and -holy crap!- forget " 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon"; I think that old TT has been around even more. By the way, he WAS in "Cherry 2000". He was also in seven [!!] Trancer movies [ Helen Hunt being in the first], "Rhinestone" [with Stallone and Dolly Parton], "Iron Eagles" [with Louis Gossett Jr.], "Fade to Black" [Dennis Christopher], "Uncommon Valor" [ Gene Hackman and Patrick Swayze], "Volunteers" [Tom Hanks, John Candy, Gedde "Long Duck Dong" Wannatabe], and "Near Dark" [ which I highly recommend, starring Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jeanette Goldstein. and Adrian Pasdar]. In the last one, his part is the father of a vampire victim and he has some decent screen time. Unfortunately, his parts in both "Valor" and "Eagles" is very brief. He also co- starred in "Metalstorm", a forgetable 1980s low -budgeter that was originally in 3-D. [Even the hulking Richard Moll couldn't save this stinker!] A lot of his B and Indie-type movies gave him more screen time than the mainstream ones.
@Banner1979 So am I. Regardless if its good or not, its simply because Sam Peckinpah is my favorite director.
@moviefreak2011 I didn't know about Stephen King writing (or about to write) a Sam Peckinpah movie, but that would have been brilliant. What was that novel called? It would have been from the mid to late 1980s I assume. Sam was a well-known hellraiser which I do know and like you said, that contributed to his downfall which is a shame. Directors heavily influenced by him were James Glickenhaus (The Exterminator) and Walter Hill (48 Hours).
It was The Regulators, under his pseudonym Richard Bachman.
cheezy trailer as alwayys
Cold War era
@Banner1979 I know it was lol. He was going to make a movie with Stephen King writing it before he died which King turned it into a novel later on. Too bad that he died but when you think about it, it was coming because he was in poor shape by the time he made this movie because of his alcoholic behavior so it was a matter of time.
die guten alten zeiten, als man abends einen politthriller geschaut hat
arlington road ist ja ähnlich
One dead - hand to hand.
Meg Foster was such a babe
DeJa Vu
Again??
Done right.
I found this movie in a charity shop, one of those freebies with a sunday paper. I've played it a couple of times, but the biggest drag are the sex scenes. Do they really think polystyrene boobs are a turn-on ? Or perhaps they are just workshopped. Call me old-fashioned but the film was virtually unwatchable during the first half. Breasts should wobble.
Hilarious comment. The boobs were gratuitous, but they seemed real enough.
One of the worst Peckinpah movies, maybe because he didn't write it, it makes no sense what so ever.
360SRH 2 Blasphemy. I saw the film and it's ahead of the game in terms of Big Brother mentality in a post-Sept 11 world while twisting lies into truth and vice versa. The Osterman Weekend is an underrated film.
Roy Phillips please tell me who was responsible for killing his wife in the beginning? I meant more if peckinpah fans are looking for more of his hits, this isn't it. It feels like none of his other movies, cross of iron, and straw dogs are two of my favs
360SRH 2 Danforth, the Burt Lancaster character, had Fassett's wife killed, and I'm a fan of Peckinpah's work because I like his sense of honorable men in a dishonorable world.
360SRH 2 Peckinpah hated the source novel. Tried to have the script re-written. Final edit taken out of his hands. He just wanted to direct again, and it was just a job offered to him.
Alan Sharp didn’t like his own screenplay either.
It probably is one of his worst but still interesting and I would definitely tell a Peckinpah fan to check it out. Also if rumors are true and he directed this while in terrible health and coked out of his mind it actually is quite remarkable it wasn’t unwatchable.