Choke Canyon (1986)A "cowboy"-scientist is fighting a corporation who wants to dump atomic waste on a piece of land he has leased. Director:Charles Bail (as Chuck Bail) |
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Choke Canyon (1986)A "cowboy"-scientist is fighting a corporation who wants to dump atomic waste on a piece of land he has leased. Director:Charles Bail (as Chuck Bail) |
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Stephen Collins | ... | ||
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Janet Julian | ... | |
Bo Svenson | ... |
Capt. Oliver Parkside
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Lance Henriksen | ... |
Brook Alastair
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Nicholas Pryor | ... |
John Pilgrim
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Victoria Racimo | ... |
Rachel
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Robert F. Hoy | ... |
Buck
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Walter Robles | ... |
Jim
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Kurt Woodruff | ... |
Crane
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Mark Baer | ... |
Orrin
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Michael Flynn | ... |
Governor
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Sherry Sailer | ... |
Mrs. Pilgrim
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Alan Gregory | ... |
Pilgrim's secretary
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Michael Phenicie | ... |
Security guard #1
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Marc Di Nunzio | ... |
Security guard #2
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Pilgrim Corporation has leased Choke Canyon to research physicist David Lowell for 99 years. Lowell has built an impressive research laboratory there. When Pilgrim suddenly needs Choke Canyon for toxic waste storage, they resort to violence to force out the renitent Lowell. However, Pilgrim Corportation vastly underestimates Lowell, who is a tenacious, principled, and ingenious man. Written by Ken Miller <wkmiller704@yahoo.com>
This is a pretty standard low-budget actioner running just over 1 1/2h, it does have some points of interest: The cinematography is not bad, some cool helicopter action and the heroine Janet Julian is a looker. It is undemanding action fare, you can park your brain and kill 1 1/2h or so, I have seen it a couple of times, it's ok. 5/10
PS. The music video for Mike And the Mechanic's "Silent Running" is using scenes from this movie.