Cannon Films

The Last American Virgin. Used to play on HBO when I was a teen.

"The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington" (currently on Amazon Prime!), with Joey Heatherton, George Hamilton, Rip Taylor, Larry Storch, Billy Barty, Edy Williams and many more down-and-out 1970s "stars." Bliss.

Lifeforce. Naked space vampires!

Can there be any doubt?

Any Chuck Norris movie.

The wonderfully sleazy 52 Pick-Up...

The Go Go Boys!

Watch the documentary, it’s brilliant.

dEATH wISH 3 or is it Death Wish 4?

The one where Counselor Troi is raped and "expires" at the hospital.

You beat me to it, R6 — love “52 Pick-Up”!

Didn't they make that awful movie with Sophia Loren and Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster and who-knows-who-else....about a train? Oh, and Martin Sheen! Man, that thing blew....I'd probably watch it again, it was so cheesy.

R11 The film you are referring to is The Cassandra Crossing and it was not made by Cannon.

Oddly enough I love most of the Cannon films. Maybe because I grew up watching them.

I was looking some of the movies listed online and I thought what an awful collection of films. (One of them - Aliens from L.A. - was later mocked on MST3K.)

What made it stranger was the fact that there would occasionally be an odd highbrow film of sorts - like the Dutch movie The Assault (a Best Foregin Film Oscar winner) and a film version of Verdi's Otello by Franco Zeffirelli.

On the other hand I will admit that they did give us Nicholas Clay's ass in Lady Chatterly's Lover.

So there's that.

I was glad they gave us Dolph as He-Man.

Breakin'... and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo!!

As much as I hate that Chuck Norris is become an anti-gay right wing loon, The Delta Force is still one of my favorite movies. And it has Lee Marvin.

R17 The first 45 minutes is a masterwork for all the wrong reasons but I simply can't resist Shelley Winters, Laine Kazan & Hanna Schygulla. Poor Hanna forced to sort through passports and pick out the Israeli ones "I can't, I'm German, the selections" is a so bad its good classic moment. Once the female hostages have been freed it becomes a bore.

A classic, and winner of six Golden Raspberry awards.

Some other highbrow films they financed inbetween all the trash were Cassavetes' Love Streams and Godard's King Lear (they supposedly signed the deal on a napkin at Cannes)

Golan-Globus really loved movies.

They did a lot of shit movies but they were genuine shitty movies.

They did Superman IV: The Quest for Peace on the cheap - and it showed.

They could do some really interesting films like Street Smart (Morgan Freeman's first Oscar nomination), Barfly (which should have gotten both Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway Oscar noms), and Shy People.

Cannon made some crap films to finance the art films. Sometimes it worked. I remember the crap films more than the art films.

I think I still get residuals on all those movies.

They even roped in Katharine Hepburn for a movie!

Oh god. I've been sucked into a Wikipedia spiral and I'm learning so much useless stuff.

Like, the godawful Alien From L.A. somehow got a sequel.

And Golan-Globus did some Agatha Christie adaptations.

And The Apple is a real movie and not something I imagined when I had malaria.

I haven't read most of the posts on this thread, but wasn't Angel a Cannon Film? I remember being sort of vaguely inspired by it as a teenager back in the day because I was teased by all my friends for being such a goody-too shoes. I used to tell the 'mean' girls at school that they might think I was a nerd but I was secretly a hooker downtown. I grew up in Davenport so it wasn't exactly Hollywood Boolevard but it had the right effect.. LOL!

No, Angel was a New World film.

New World, Cannon and Golan-Globus produced some fun movies, back when movies were fun.

Where can I find a list of Cannon films?

R31 There's a wikipedia list.

R28 is a whore, a lascivious whore, and an inspiration to us all!

I'm watching the documentary tonight! Hoping for much cheese, blood, and tits.

I watched the documentary this weekend and really enjoyed it. Definitely recommend it if you're interested in movie making or just remember any Cannon films. (I remember seeing Superman IV in the theatre and being very upset, as only a kid can, that they ruined Superman.)

Biggest surprise was the fondness so many of the interviewees seemed to have for Golan & Globus. An exasperated fondness, like they were annoying relatives, but a fondness nonetheless. Even people who got dicked around often seemed more bemused than bitter.

Of course Cannon made hundreds of films over 15 years so the doc is necessarily glib and breezy. It's a shame more voices couldn't be represented. The biggest omission was Golan and Globus themselves. In characteristic fashion, when they learned someone was making a documentary about them they decided to make their own first. So I've got to hunt that down now, and maybe watch or rewatch some old Cannon "gems."