Word: railsback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FORGOTTEN (USA, April 26, 9 p.m.). Six Viet Nam POWs, released 17 years after the war's end, discover that sinister Government forces were behind their capture. Steve Railsback, Stacy Keach and Keith Carradine co-star in this thriller, the USA cable network's first venture into made-for-TV moviedom...
Freshman Lane Evans of Illinois faces Kenneth G. McMillan, a hardline conservative who won the 1982 GOP primary over then Rep. Tom Railsback, largely because Railsback was implicated in the Paula Parkinson sex scandal. in Illinois, along with Texas, the Democrats expect to make their biggest House gains, and Evans' district, which is fairly representative of Illinois outside of Chicago, is a watermark for Democratic chances...
Rush couldn't begin with a more promising subject for film treatment. An enigmatic young Vietnam vet (Steve Railsback) is on the run from the police for some unknown crime. A near brush with death in his desperate escape from arrest brings him into the distorted movie-set world of a flamboyant, god-like director (Peter O'Toole) and his company on location near San Diego. The company's star stunt man has been killed and the arrest must be temporarily concealed; the fugitive needs a refuge until the heat is off. The director has seen that this hard-bitten...
...story concerns Lucky Cameron (Steve Railsback), on the run from the police, who stumbles upon a movie company on location. Eli Cross (Peter O'Toole) is a fine parody of an energetic, egomaniacal director. He offers Lucky a change of identity on high-risk terms: take over the stunt man's job recently vacated by a chap who may or may not have been sent to his doom by the director's pursuit of a terrific death scene. In return the young man will get protection from the police. Cross is as good as his word...