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When they refused, he disobeyed orders and was sent to Fort Sam Houston, demoted to the rank of
colonel.
Whether the original film was any good is a matter of conjecture: though John Steiner is excellent as a British doctor, Orson Welles mumbles his way through his performance as a Mexican
colonel
and Ennio Morricone's score is cribbed from his earlier work.
Not very well guided by
Colonel
Manning (Robert Dix) & a bird named Valerie (Vicki Volante) back on Earth they unfortunately hit a meteorite & are forced to land on an uncharted planet that suffers from 'Chromatic Radiation' which turns the sky different colours.
The superb acting from a top-drawer cast constitutes as another substantial plus: Susan Clark as Forbin's loyal assistant, Gordon Pinsent as the amiable president of the United States, William Schallert as a CIA director, Dolph Sweet as an army colonel, and George Stanford Brown, Robert Cornthwaite and James Hong as computer experts.
Nick Nolte pops up in the last ten minutes like a poor man's
Colonel
Kurtz but his appearance comes too late to wake up the movie.
In 1974, an American secret agent takes a blood sample from a werewolf in Budapest, then returns to the U.S., where he inject himself with it (!), kills a few people, is captured by the evil
Colonel
Miller (Barry Bostwick, who's awful) and cryogenically frozen.
A furiously intense story that takes place shortly after the Cold War where an American
colonel
(Roy Scheider - "Jaws") who has a troubled past, picks a fight with a high-ranking Soviet military officer, (Jurgen Prochnow - "Das Boot") that nearly escelates into a Tarantino-like standoff.
Alida Valli is the placid widow of a wealthy, blind British
Colonel
who was poisoned; she's charged with his murder and is defended by barrister Gregory Peck, a married man with an impeccable courtroom track record who immediately becomes obsessed with her even though she seems to regard him with disdain.
The plot: the earth's tectonic plates are all screwed up, and a
colonel
has to place a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles to set the plates back the right direction.
Omar Sharif does an excellent job as the Army
colonel
investigating.
Up-from-the-ranks retired
colonel
Richard Sharpe (Sean Bean) is, more or less happily, making a living as a farmer.
Barry Bostwick plays the evil
Colonel
harboring the blueprints for this gruesome experiment.
And would the general pussyfoot around so long with an American
colonel
who's actions could at any time escalate them into a major confrontation?
The Hall of Shame Faded Name cast makes for pretty sad viewing: former Tarzan Denny Miller as a stern, no-nonsense colonel, Grant ("The Monolith Monsters") Williams as the lecherous jerk captain, veteran TV actress Mala Powers as a feisty Russian astronaut, song and dance man Bobby Van as an obnoxious hipster, Henry Wilcoxon as a crusty old-timer, Top Forty radio disc jockey Casey Kasem as a Mission Control announcer, and future "M.A.S.H." TV series regular Mike Farrell as a TV reporter.
America’s strategy seems to be to squeeze Qaddafi’s regime out of power through a combination of financial, economic, and even “psychological” pressure aimed at isolating the
Colonel
from his sources of support within his own inner circle.
But Luo Yuan, a senior
colonel
at the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences, recently declared that if Taiwan's leaders "refuse to come to their senses and continue to use referenda as an excuse to seek independence, they will push [their] compatriots into the abyss of war."
When a
colonel
recently asked NTC Chairman Mustafa Abdel-Jalil why he has not moved to merge the militias into a national army, Abdel-Jalil replied, “I head the legislative branch.
In November, Indians' votes were the key factor behind the election of a populist political outsider, ex-army
colonel
Lucio Gutierrez, as president of this small Andean nation.
It was the implosion of Boris Yeltsin’s legitimacy in his last year in office that put the thin-skinned ex-KGB
colonel
on Russia’s political map.
The Venezuelan lieutenant
colonel
has repeatedly provided sanctuary, arms, diplomatic support, and financing to the FARC guerrillas fighting to overthrow the Colombian government.
In a panic, acting President Dioncounda Traoré, a
colonel
from the south, called upon the French authorities to enforce a bilateral defense agreement, though he had contributed to the coup that drove the legally elected former president, Amadou Toumani Touré, into exile, causing the state to collapse and straining relations with France.
So perhaps the Russian people might take to their hearts this executioner with the rank of lieutenant colonel, just as eight years ago they took to their hearts another KGB lieutenant colonel, Vladimir Putin?
But Ivanov is much taller than Putin, who, at any rate, had only achieved the rank of
colonel.
A historical wave beyond his control had lifted the former KGB lieutenant
colonel
from out of the shadows to the pinnacle of power.
Choosing to prioritize his own safety and that of his family over the wellbeing of Russia, President Boris Yeltsin named Putin, a former KGB colonel, as his successor.
Equally ominous for his political future, state television workers have joined the mass strikes, and many police officers have cast off their uniforms, with one lieutenant
colonel
revealing the regime’s plans for pacifying the protests.
A muscular lieutenant
colonel
from the OMON riot police spoke before Lukashenko, declaring in a threatening tone that he loved his country and would never surrender it.
During the days of rioting, many division chiefs (those with a rank above colonel) simply vanished, no longer even answering calls from their subordinates.
Unsurprisingly, public service can be an extremely lucrative enterprise: one
colonel
at the Federal Security Service, for example, used his position to accumulate a staggering $190 million in cash.
'Ah, here they are!' said Oblonsky, just as they were finishing, leaning back in his chair and stretching out his hand to Vronsky, who was approaching with a tall
Colonel
of the Guards.
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