Captain America

Monday, April 2, 2007

Oh man, this takes me back into the days when I wanted to be the one wearing the tight pants and fighting crime. Oh well, one out of two ain’t bad. One day I’ll fight crime.

In the meantime though, this is for all of you who are mourning the loss of Captain America. I’m sure there are many of you who don’t even know that this goodness even came out so it’s my job today to educate you.

Reb Brown played Captain America in two movies. The first was simply named Captain America in 1979 and then there was Captain America II: Death Too Soon the same year. Brown also played the loincloth covered Yor, the Hunter from the Future for those that might remember.

Now take the jump into yester-year with me and watch Captain America blast out the back of a van on a motorcycle. Yeah!

An yes, the warden guy IS Christopher Lee who played Saruman in Lord of the Rings and Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

Reb Brown is actually best know to me as Blaster from Uncommon Valor, which was about a group of Vietnam War veterans that re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind during the war. It’s a great movie that stars Gene Hackman, Fred Ward (Remo Williams & Tremors), Randall ‘Tex’ Cobb (the biker in Raising Arizona), Patrick Swayze, Harold Sylvester (from a million different shows), Tim Thomerson (also from a million shows), Robert Stack, and as Mrs. Wilkes…Jane Kaczmarek from Malcolm in the Middle. It’s a great movie.