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Post by Squad 51 on Oct 1, 2021 11:15:48 GMT -5
Decided to bring an article about the brothers up. A description of both. In that case I'm a mix of both. Kinda shy a bit like Christian, but also one who doesn't follow trends like Shane. lol
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Post by Tim on Oct 2, 2021 23:20:57 GMT -5
Good article. Even if it is decades old.
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Post by Squad 51 on Oct 26, 2021 16:17:28 GMT -5
For the moment two more articles (or pages from fanzines). Always interesting to read decades later. Though I'm not sure if I could have found those in German teenager magazines. The best ones (and others) I'll bring up later. Need to have some papers still. lol Hope it's somehow readable for you.
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Post by Tim on Oct 26, 2021 17:20:07 GMT -5
Yeah, I can read them.
Guess you're back here, since you're finished with Simon & Simon.
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Post by Squad 51 on Nov 4, 2021 17:16:23 GMT -5
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Post by Tim on Nov 4, 2021 23:28:55 GMT -5
Made over thirty years ago. Still, nice to see them.
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Post by Squad 51 on Dec 26, 2021 10:31:58 GMT -5
Found another article and even looked through all, so not posted before. The Conrads: A family affair
By MARK SCHWED, UPI TV Editor
NEW YORK -- Actor Robert Conrad and his family made a home movie and somehow they sold it to a network.
'High Mountain Rangers,' airing on CBS April 19 (9-11 p.m. EDT), is not a good movie.
It possesses the same intellect as a bowl of green Jell-O. For the most part, the acting is amateurish, the characters are stereotyped, and the story is trite. The only plus about the made-for-TV movie is the High Sierra scenery, but how long can you look at snow before you snooze?
Blame the bum movie on a parent's desire to help one's offspring. Perhaps he was trying to cut costs.
Conrad created the idea, directed it, plays the lead role, (David Kinghorn gets the writers' credit) and his production company handled the project. His daughter, Joan, is the executive producer. His sons, Christian and Shane, have starring roles.
Conrad played the tough high-tech Old West Secret Service agent in 'Wild, Wild West,' and he played the tough major in 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' and he played the tough guy who dared you to knock the battery off his shoulder in the TV commercial.
Guess what kind of guy Conrad plays in 'High Mountain Rangers?'
He plays Jeff Hawkes, the tough ex-Ranger who quits the trumped up ski patrol because a guy he put in prison escaped the gas chamber on a technicality. Then the guy escapes prison with two other cons and the High Mountain Rangers ask Hawkes to come back and help them track down the mountain man.
Hawkes is a salty old dog who still wears old buckskin, carries an old rifle and rides an old horse (he even rides it up to the front door of a casino in Lake Tahoe and asks the valet to park it).
He knows the land better than anyone, except for his youngest son, Cody (Shane Conrad), who lives with him in the mountains.
His oldest son Matt (Christian Conrad) is a member of the High Mountain Rangers, an elite bunch of guys who wear white pants and black sweaters and carry high-powered rifles while skiing the High Sierra country.
They look like the Chippendales on ice.
If that's not enough 'outdoor action-adventure' for you, there's more. While the elite rangers hunt down the madmen convicts, an air ambulance with a pregnant woman aboard crashes in a remote area. Another of Conrad's (Hawkes') sons decides he'll find her.
All this sets up the incredibly suspenseful climax where Conrad gets revenge by killing the worst convict, then flies down the mountain on a hang glider.
Meanwhile, one of Conrad's sons has found the plane and the pregnant woman, who is dying. What to do? Dad would know. In one of the most ridiculous scenes in this ridiculous movie, the kid first kneels outside the plane and prays, 'Please, God, help me,' then stands up and screams 'Dad!' Understand, this is in the middle of nowhere.
Pop must have some awful good ears to match his impeccable timing. Just about this time he's flown down from the mountaintop and now walks up to the son, who just can't believe his luck. Dad goes into the plane, but finds the woman dead. What to do? Rip out a knife and do a little field surgery to save the baby. He does, of course, and emerges from the wrecked plane with a smile on his face and blood dripping from his hands, which he wipes off in the snow.
Let's have blood when you kill a man with a knife. Let's not have blood when you slice open a pregnant woman's stomach to save her child. It's unnecessarily gross.
The idea for all of the high mountain movie originated with Conrad, who explains in a press release: 'I suddenly realized that all the scripts I was being offered seemed old hat to me and that there seemed to be a definite shortage of good outdoor action adventure scripts.'
'High Mountain Rangers' has done nothing to relieve the shortage.
(C) UPI Archives, April 13, 1987Note: Robert's character is called Jesse Hawkes, not Jeff. Enjoy!! I need to watch what I still can provide here.
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Post by Tim on Dec 26, 2021 12:05:37 GMT -5
Got his character's name wrong
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Post by Squad 51 on Jan 31, 2022 14:36:20 GMT -5
Today I found a good article of how Robert Conrad raised his kids. Here's the link: Robert Conrad as DadEnjoy! I know it's been some time.
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Post by Squad 51 on Mar 3, 2022 12:29:33 GMT -5
Found something anew which I may post soon. Always happy to look on eBay.
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Post by Tim on Mar 3, 2022 12:56:58 GMT -5
Right.
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Post by Squad 51 on Apr 9, 2022 8:38:52 GMT -5
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Post by Tim on Apr 9, 2022 23:23:03 GMT -5
Guess these came out when the show did (the late 80's).
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Post by Squad 51 on Apr 21, 2022 15:22:29 GMT -5
Checked Shane's IMDB profile today because I was stunned to see a new entry on it. Guess what he played with recently in the new "S.W.A.T." episode from April 17. Going to check this out tomorrow since the other shows are still off.
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Post by Tim on Apr 21, 2022 17:00:19 GMT -5
Nice to see that one of them still acts. They've been pretty much semi-retired since their dad died.
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