Lee-Evans Movie Reviews

I watched this third sequal right after seeing the two original movies and it was not what I expected. I love Beethoven 1 & 2 but this sequal was boring and ridiculous. The original cast are gone and the new characters are just boring. The villians in this movie are really stupid. The only interesting thing about this movie was looking at Beethoven. This movie really wasted my time and I suggest saving your time and money. Not funny or interesting at all!!! Anyway I can't wait to see the fourth one though!!!

I haven't watched the original Beethoven or its immediate sequel. This third installment is a big letdown. OK, maybe it's because I'm a grown-up. Kids did like it. But I found the acting amusingly terrible, esp. the phony performance put up by the wife. The kids are not even likable. The Penny girl is kinda pretty but not particularly convincing. The two villains are the bright spots besides the dog (or the three dogs that play Beethoven), but after about 60 minutes, nothing in this movie has any redeeming value left. I pretty much fast-forwarded the last 20 minutes of this 90-minute film.

A cute, charming and heartwarming movie that everyone should add to there movies! Any dog lover would like this movie and who could not fall in love with this dog!

I watched this third sequal right after seeing the two original movies and it was not what I expected. I love Beethoven 1 & 2 but this sequal was boring and ridiculous. The original cast are gone and the new characters are just boring. The villians in this movie are really stupid. The only interesting thing about this movie was looking at Beethoven. This movie really wasted my time and I suggest saving your time and money. Not funny or interesting at all!!! Anyway I can't wait to see the fourth one though!!!

I haven't watched the original Beethoven or its immediate sequel. This third installment is a big letdown. OK, maybe it's because I'm a grown-up. Kids did like it. But I found the acting amusingly terrible, esp. the phony performance put up by the wife. The kids are not even likable. The Penny girl is kinda pretty but not particularly convincing. The two villains are the bright spots besides the dog (or the three dogs that play Beethoven), but after about 60 minutes, nothing in this movie has any redeeming value left. I pretty much fast-forwarded the last 20 minutes of this 90-minute film.

A cute, charming and heartwarming movie that everyone should add to there movies! Any dog lover would like this movie and who could not fall in love with this dog!

I watched this third sequal right after seeing the two original movies and it was not what I expected. I love Beethoven 1 & 2 but this sequal was boring and ridiculous. The original cast are gone and the new characters are just boring. The villians in this movie are really stupid. The only interesting thing about this movie was looking at Beethoven. This movie really wasted my time and I suggest saving your time and money. Not funny or interesting at all!!! Anyway I can't wait to see the fourth one though!!!

I haven't watched the original Beethoven or its immediate sequel. This third installment is a big letdown. OK, maybe it's because I'm a grown-up. Kids did like it. But I found the acting amusingly terrible, esp. the phony performance put up by the wife. The kids are not even likable. The Penny girl is kinda pretty but not particularly convincing. The two villains are the bright spots besides the dog (or the three dogs that play Beethoven), but after about 60 minutes, nothing in this movie has any redeeming value left. I pretty much fast-forwarded the last 20 minutes of this 90-minute film.

A cute, charming and heartwarming movie that everyone should add to there movies! Any dog lover would like this movie and who could not fall in love with this dog!

I was persuaded to watch MACHO CALLAHAN because of the movie's decent cast (David Janssen, Jean Seberg, Lee J. Cobb, David Carradine), and it's plot (the frequently-used but still reliable scenario of a wronged man seeking revenge). Unfortunately, the film is lacking in several ways. Janssen plays a Civil War P.O.W. whose situation can be blamed on the underhanded Cobb. He busts out of a Confederate military prison (in one of the film's few good scenes), intent on tracking down his quarry. But that storyline - which is the selling point of the movie - ends (rather abruptly) midway through the picture. The rest of the film deals with the consequences of Janssen gunning down a newlywed (Carradine), and his wife's (Seberg) desire to see Janssen dead. Credibility is strained to the breaking point when Seberg begins to fall in love with Janssen almost immediately after he's brutally raped her! Some really bad dialogue doesn't help, either. In a scene that's supposed to be tender, Janssen tries expressing his feelings to Seberg by saying: "Never learned no readin'. So I got no idea what you're supposed to say when you're like this. I know you're supposed to say somethin'. Some damn thing like 'you got pretty eyes', or somethin'. I know that." Yikes! The apparent intent was to show how a good woman can change a bad man...but it's handled in such a fashion as to make it seem unlikely at best, and utterly implausible at worst. A few scenes indicate that the film might not have had the biggest of budgets. When Seberg is confronted by a bear protecting her cub, it's obvious that Momma Bear is a guy in a bear suit! Fast editing tries to disguise the fact, but it's still noticeable. (Quick note: Janssen, in a rare act of compassion, plans to take the cub where it can be cared for, after declaring that the young animal can't make it on it's own. But when a posse starts to close in, the cub is promptly abandoned). All in all, MACHO CALLAHAN is somewhat like a jigsaw puzzle that hasn't been pieced together properly. Several scenes start and end too abruptly, without the benefit of appropriate transitions. You get the feeling that the filmmakers have left out a few things that would have made the movie flow better. Despite this, the film isn't a total bomb. The opening scenes convincingly depict the deplorable conditions of a Civil War prison, and the break-out is rousing. MACHO CALLAHAN is watchable, but it has too many elements going against it to be recommended.

Visual quality of this video is fair to average. The sound track is good. This is a 54 minute cut version of this title. The original theatrical release had a running time of approximately 75 minutes. Uncut versions of this film can be found in private film collections, but none are known to be available on home video. This 1944 release is one of the first 3 films Roy starred in with Dale Evans. It is too bad that this title is not available on video in its original full length form, as this is one of the better Roy Rogers films.

Firstly, poor sound. Secondly, the film has been cut, heavily.
Let us hope that Paramount release it on DVD soon, as it is their film. In the meantime, if anyone wants to see this film then just buy the Paramount VHS tape- it's very good quality for picture & sound & it is UNCUT! Do not waste your money or time on this poor attempt at a DVD release!!!

Richard Burton was one of the all-time great thespians and it's a travesty that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences never honored him with an Oscar for any of his numerous nominations. Lee Marvin was a dynamic actor in his own right as well. Why they are wasting their time in this ugly, worthless (...) movie is anybody's guess.
Many films that incorporate a racist theme merit importance when they depict the horror and any subsequent violence that such bigotry and hatred derives. This film does nothing but present a shallow glimpse into the racial tensions stemming from the South (a common and unfortunate stereotype).
One interesting note: OJ Simpson made his film debut here as a radical "Black Panther"-type militant who murders white folks whenever he has a chance. (...)

In the Spring of 1974 Director Terance Young and company came to Oroville, California to film the Klansman. The locals were excited to have a big studio film made in the small town. However, when it opened at the State Theatre in Oroville, there was widespread horror.

The film included a castration, an attempted rape and two rapes, plus a whole lot of racial comments and some god-awful acting. You would have thought that Richard Burton would have done well with his acting, but he was one of the worse. He was drunk and chasing an under-age girl for most of the shooting schedule and could not seem to handle the southern accent. (This may have been the incident that destroyed his and Liz Taylor's marriage.)

Lee Marvin, Cameron Mitchell, Lola Falana and a few others did well in their acting but the script shot them down. It was full of racial stereotypes that probably set back racial relations for the next 100 years. (This was OJ Simpson's first film.)

I was there in 1974 and saw a lot of the shooting of the movie. It's only redeeming value to me is the fact that it showed a lot of areas of Table Mountain, Cherokee, Oroville and Sugarloaf Mountain (75 miles north of Sacramento in Northern California).
The scenery is beautiful but the movie is awful.

There are many scenes that are unintentially funny because of the bad acting plus a hilarious scene where Richard Burton "slaps" Cameron Mitchell into a blood pulp. A Classic!

All in all a minor film but worth seeing if you want a laugh or two. Warning, the rape scene with Lola Falana is not for the faint of heart! Plus the castration scene makes ME grit my teeth!