Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
“Forget it, kid; I work alone.”
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… to his single-move slamming of a bully in a bar up onto a pool table:
… to a strategically placed image of bullfighting (I guess they couldn’t justify an actual scene of that!) behind Norris in a later sequence:
… to his chemistry with Carradine’s mistress (Carrera), who has requisite sultriness and allure but was more amusingly memorable as a Bond villainess in the same year’s Never Say Never Again (1983).
Sweater-clad Carradine, meanwhile, seems to be having a ton of fun playing a sadistic baddie who’s equally comfortable blowing people away and showing off his martial arts chops.
In his third film after Zoot Suit (1981) and Eating Raoul (1982), Beltran is well-cast but given too little to do (perhaps inevitably) as Norris’s sidekick; he’s primarily meant to represent a nervous new ranger who learns to overcome his fears and act like a “real” man by heading out guns blazing.
In the image above he’s shown alongside character actor L.Q. Jones, who has some memorable early moments as “Dakota Brown.” Also adding extra quirkiness to the cast is Daniel Frishman as a megalomaniac little person in a wheelchair:
… and William Sanderson — “Sebastian” in Blade Runner (1982) — as a buffoonish drug dealer named Snow, with coke bottle glasses.
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