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Luke Askew

Luke Askew was an American actor who appeared in over 180 films and television shows. He was known for his distinctive appearance and deep, gravelly voice. Some of his notable roles include the biker gang leader in Easy Rider, the train robber in The Great Bank Robbery, and the bartender in The Last Movie. Askew passed away in 2012 at the age of 80.

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Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1967 IMDB Rating: 8.1

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admi...

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Frailty

Frailty

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 7.2

A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed 'demons'.

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Mackintosh and T.J.

Mackintosh and T.J.

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1975 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Roy is a ranch hand and a drifter. He takes a young man into his care and helps him to grow up.

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Rolling Thunder

Rolling Thunder

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1977 IMDB Rating: 6.9

A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. When thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service, they mangle his hand...

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Posse

Posse

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1975 IMDB Rating: 6.5

A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber and his gang.

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Night of the Serpent

La notte dei serpenti

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1969 IMDB Rating: 6.2

Hernandez, the sheriff of a small Mexican village, joins a group of townsmen with the intention of killing young orphan Manuel and robbing him of his inheritance. Killer Luke, now an alcoholic for hav...

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Traveller

Traveller

Film Age rating: 18 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 6.1

A young man, Pat, visits the clan of gypsy-like grifters (Irish Travellers) in rural North Carolina from whom he is descended. He is at first rejected, but cousin Bokky takes him on as an apprentice....

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Kung Fu The Movie

Kung Fu The Movie

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 6.1

In his travels, Caine meets up with an old man who has several surprises for him. The first being the destruction of the Shaolin order, the second being that the man is the father of the Emperor's nep...

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Vendetta

Vendetta

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 6

Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrants working on the New Orleans docks in the 1890's. After the Chief of Police was brutally murdered, m...

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Walking Tall Part II

Walking Tall Part II

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1975 IMDB Rating: 6

Sheriff Buford Pusser continues his one-man war against moonshiners and a ruthless crime syndicate after the murder of his wife in late 1960's Tennessee.

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