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Bookmark this pageHigh Risk (1981)
Director: Stewart Raffill
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From Time Out Film Guide
To the accompaniment of news bulletins dispensing gloom about inflation and unemployment, an out-of-work cameraman (Brolin) collects three similarly situated buddies for an improbable raid on the Colombian hacienda of dope-dealer Coburn. Veering between comic caper and homily on the danger of living out depression fantasies, High Risk has something of an identity problem. For all his bull-slaying bravado, the suavely sinister Coburn proves to be just a paper tiger, while Quinn and a band of corrupted revolutionaries provide little more than light relief. There are nicely observed moments - the trepidation with which these 'ordinary Americans' confront the necessity for violence, their righteous indignation at being taken for CIA agents ('Christ, we're on Welfare!') - but they do tend to get lost in a finale of dago-bashing heroics.Author: RMy
Cast & crew
Director: Stewart Raffill
Producer: Joseph Raffill, Gerald Green
Cast: James Brolin, Lindsay Wagner, Anthony Quinn, Cleavon Little, Bruce Davison, Chick Vennera, James Coburn, Ernest Borgnine full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 94 mins
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