1979 Directed by Ross Hagen
In this actioner, a bounty hunter is assigned to bring back an enormous and angry ex-convict who wears a deadly glove made of leather and steel. Rock'em sock'em mayhem ensues.
John Saxon Rosey Grier Joanna Cassidy Joan Blondell Jack Carter Aldo Ray Keenan Wynn Howard Honig Michael Pataki Frances E. Williams Misty Bruce Shane Mooney Jeanne Lucas Sally Kemp Candy Bowen Nicholas Worth Logan Clarke Marie O'Henry Wynn Irwin Noel De Souza Roger Crawford Larry Duran Bob O'Neil Diana Hale Hoke Howell Darwin Long Tony Lorea Susan Davis Sandy Alan Show All…
The Glove: Lethal Terminator, Blood Mad, Die Faust - Gesucht: Tot, nicht lebendig!
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Kokomo, Indiana
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USA
'The Glove' wasn't quite the exploitation actioner I expexted, but I still really dug it. The cast is pretty outstanding, featuring many 70s genre favorites such as John Saxon and Rosey Grier in the leads, Jack Carter, Keenan Wynn, Aldo Ray and more familiar faces. Ross Hagen directed but sadly didn't appear himself.
It's part gritty vigilante action and part blaxplotation, but mainly it's just a cool Neo Noir film with John Saxon doing awesome hard-boiled voice over narration which is more than enough for me to love this.
Was not expecting this to be a shaggy dog bounty hunter movie based on the ingenious marketing that focuses on a very minor detail in the movie. Coulda used more of that titular the glove, but the scenes with Saxon and Rosey Grier are really great. And Keenan Wynn and Aldo Ray too!
Sam Kellogg (John Saxon) is a hard-boiled bounty hunter, prone to missing child support payments and using baseball analogies during his ever-present narration. After some small time captures and a couple of missteps, Sam needs a big payday, so he gets onto the trail of Victor Hale (Rosey Greer), who's been stalking and thrashing prison guards in full riot gear, including a massive steel-and-leather Glove.
I've seen a lot of Ross Hagen's later directorial output, but The Glove was his first time in the chair and it's not bad. It's just not really what I was expecting. It's less about a guy pulping corrupt correction officers with a huge mitt, and more about navigating Kellogg's and Hale's broken lives before…
John Saxon is a bounty hunter who's bad with his money who's behind on his child support payments and needs to bring in collars to be able to continue to row boats with his daughter. But, he's bad with money and keeps taking on riskier collars in order to catch up. So he takes a job to catch the dude going around smacking up prison guards with The Glove, basically some strong cop uniform stuff that the corrupt police don't want getting out.
It's fine, it's John Saxon, it's not a bad time but after that theme song opening I thought it was gonna be a little more violent than it was.
i would have liked this even more if this had a post-apocalyptic setting rather than the 70s plus a fancy power glove.
john saxon marry me!!!!!!
“You live on the edge, one push and you’re over. It’s easy.”
At the end of five pounds of lead and steel, you like the sound of that? Well after you see how much destruction this riot glove can cause, you'll come to the realisation we don’t get enough of it. Disappointing as that opening title song really does whet your appetite. Alternatively this offbeat drive-in exploitation (and it’s minimal on the exploitation) is more like a day in the life of a toiling, down-on-his-luck bounty hunter looking for that one big payoff. There are 20 thousand big ones up for grabs for bail jumper Victor Hale (Rosey Grier), but the random narrative has John Saxon’s bounty hunter also concentrating…
B-quickie has John Saxon as a bounty hunter looking for Rosey Grier, who has been getting revenge on his enemies with a 5lb riot glove. It’s fast-paced and reasonably gripping, but almost paints itself in a corner when Grier is portrayed as just as sympathetic as Saxon. It still pulls off a nice comprimise of an ending.
This film feels like Jackie Brown if it were shot by Jack Horner from Boogie Nights. 1970s North Hollywood sleaze is on full display, and John Saxon manages to give a substantive performance. Much more substantive than the marketing might suggest.
Always wanted to see it. Glad I did cause it was good. Saxon is a bounty hunter after a guy kicking and killing dudes with a punch-a-hole-in-the-wall-glove. John Saxon is very good as the hunter. The hunted Rosey Grier is played very sympathetically and that's the difference between good exploitation and the bad ones. The theme song at the beginning is hilarious along with the voice over narration. But it's well done and written. A fight at a meat factory is a standout. And the ending was quite suspenseful and surprising too.
Ross Hagen tries his best to do film noir with John Saxon as a down on his luck detective/bounty hunter. Saxon’s “bad luck” is more the direct result of zero street smarts than anything else, and it leads him into a lot of avoidable conflict and unnecessary danger.
This film hits both sides of the spectrum with action. There’s a super lame fight at a butchery, but then one of the coolest bathroom fights ever later in the movie. That’s typical of Hagen’s films. He’s a pretty inconsistent director — except with music. Musically he consistently has no idea what’s appropriate or worthy to include on his soundtracks. Exhibit A: The Glove’s opening theme song. Exhibit B: the rest of the soundtrack. Music even taints the baddie Victor (Rosey Grier), who is charming, adorable and sympathetic except when he’s playing guitar. All that said, I give it a shwing.
8% awesome Glove action, 2% awesome Glove theme song, 90% completely unrelated detective-voice-over picaresque padding. There were small moments I liked, but I'd recommend just watching the trailer instead.
acting wise i think it’s one of john saxon’s best, and he’s also never looked sexier. i couldn’t ask for much more.
