Enjoyable Aussie Fare
Blue Lightning is a fun flick that is shot in Australia's outback, a dry, desolate, but interesting area. It makes up in colorful characters what it lacks in rain. Particularly good are the 'road train' truck driver.
Sam Elliot (Harry Wingate) does an excellent job as an American hired to find a rare opal called the 'Blue Lightning.' He hooks up with a pretty Australian girl named Kate McQueen (Rebecca Gilling). Adventure ensues, including hired guns, car chase, plane chase, and more. It's laced with humor, including an airport controller who can't understand plain American accent, but is perfectly at home with the thick Aussie accent that I had a real hard time following.
Robert Culp plays Lester McInally, who owns the gem. He sports a faintly passable Irish accent, and is an Irish Republican Army sadist and murderer who is pretty much certifiable. He's quite a repugnant character.
The best things about this action flick are Sam Elliot, the...
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Blue Lightning VHS
Blue Lightning starts off like a standard "B" Grade movie, but since it stars my favorite cowboy movie star, Sam Elliott, I kept watching. It's all about a private investigator, Elliott, hired to recover a sapphire from a treacherous double-dealing villain, played by Robert Culp of I, Spy fame (the TV show). Interesting movie.
Looks like it was shot in Aussie Land.
Recommended for fans of Sam Elliott.
Gunner February, 2008
This Is A Sleeper!
I saw this movie a long time ago and have it on VHS. I was hoping it would come out on DVD. I could listen to Sam Elliott speak all day long. What a voice. I enjoyed this movie. It was entertaining and it also had Robert Culp in it. I think it is definitely worth watching if you are a Sam Elliott fan.
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