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A Breed Apart

  • 19841984
  • RR
  • 1h 35m
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Rutger Hauer in A Breed Apart (1984)
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A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.
IMDb RATING
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1.6K
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POPULARITY
24,573
3,135
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    • Director
      • Philippe Mora
    • Writer
      • Paul Wheeler(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Rutger Hauer
      • Powers Boothe
      • Kathleen Turner
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    • Director
      • Philippe Mora
    • Writer
      • Paul Wheeler(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Rutger Hauer
      • Powers Boothe
      • Kathleen Turner
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    • 10User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews

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    Rutger Hauer, Kathleen Turner, and Powers Boothe in A Breed Apart (1984)
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    Powers Boothe in A Breed Apart (1984)
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    Powers Boothe in A Breed Apart (1984)
    Rutger Hauer and Kathleen Turner in A Breed Apart (1984)
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    Rutger Hauer in A Breed Apart (1984)
    Rutger Hauer and Kathleen Turner in A Breed Apart (1984)
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    Rutger Hauer
    Rutger Hauer
    • Jim Malden
    Powers Boothe
    Powers Boothe
    • Mike Walker
    Kathleen Turner
    Kathleen Turner
    • Stella Clayton
    Donald Pleasence
    Donald Pleasence
    • J.P. Whittier
    Brion James
    Brion James
    • Peyton
    John Dennis Johnston
    John Dennis Johnston
    • Miller
    Jayne Bentzen
    • Amy Rollings
    Andy Fenwick
    Andy Fenwick
    • Adam Clayton
    Dustin Lecate
    • Self
    C.K. Bibby
    • Arthur
    • (as Charles K. Bibby)
    Frank Wallace
    • Sam
    Jon Syme
    • Peyton's Attorney
    William W. Brown
    • Trask
    Laurens Moore
    • Judge
    Willie J. Stratford Sr.
    • Butler
    Peggy Kay-Fury
    • Policewoman
    Mert Hatfield
    • Man #1
    • (as Merton E. Hatfield)
    Jim Kuykendall
    • Man #2
    • Director
      • Philippe Mora
    • Writer
      • Paul Wheeler(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      After principal filming in North Carolina was finished, the film reels were sent back by plane to Los Angeles, California. One reel out of four never arrived, so this movie was substantially reorganized around the missing scenes (shot out of order) in editing. This partly explains why some sub-plots are incomplete, and Jim Malden has no backstory.
    • Quotes

      [first lines]

      Stella Clayton: Hughie, where are you boys goin' at this hour with all that booze?

      Hughie Peyton: [grunts an unintelligible response]

      Stella Clayton: Don't you work any more Hughie Peyton?

      Charlie Miller: His wife give 'im a few days off.

      Stella Clayton: Aw hell.

      [walks away]

      Hughie Peyton: That Stella can really pack a pair of Levis, can't she?

      Charlie Miller: I like it.

      [shouting as they pull away in their boat]

      Charlie Miller: Hey Stella, just put it on my tab...

      Stella Clayton: I swear those boys were behind the door when when brains were passed out.

    • Alternate versions
      The Italian VHS edition runs 1:28:15 (at PAL speed, which is roughly 92 mins in NTSC) and has about 10 different scenes which are either alternate takes and/or completely different scenes. Despite being shorter, it has at least 2 scenes totally absent in the US Blu-Ray (which runs 1:40:45). So each edition has scenes that are not included in the other.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Het uur van de wolf: Rutger Hauer: Blond, blue eyes (2006)
    • Soundtracks
      Hold Her In Your Hand
      Vocal by Maurice Gibb

      Composed by Maurice Gibb and Barry Gibb

      Produced by Maurice Gibb

    User reviews10

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    5/10
    Could have been much worse
    I watched this film when it was recently shown on British television, largely because of my interest in bird watching and nature conservation (although the looks of the young Kathleen Turner might also have been a factor). The story revolves around the doings of egg collectors (or "oologists" as they sometimes call themselves), a breed of men which I, in common with most ornithologists, struggle to understand; if, as they claim, they are motivated by a love of nature, why do they persist in endangering through their activities the very creatures they profess to love? J.P. Whittier, an obsessive and very wealthy egg collector, is trying to obtain specimens of the eggs of a newly discovered (and fictitious) subspecies of the bald eagle. In reality there are two existing subspecies of this bird, the northern and the southern, although the supposed new variety is said to be larger than either. At the time the film was made in 1984 the bald eagle was on the brink of extinction in the continental United States, although its numbers have since recovered and it was removed from the list of endangered species in 2007.

    Whittier is well aware that stealing its eggs will be likely to push the new subspecies closer to extinction, but is nevertheless determined to proceed with his scheme. Because the only known nest is on top of a lofty crag, he hires rock climber Mike Walker to steal the eggs for him. Although Walker can no more comprehend Whittier's motivation than I can, he is tempted by the huge sum of money he is offered. There is, however, a problem. The nest is on land owned by Jim Malden, a reclusive and eccentric conservationist who fiercely guards both his privacy and the wildlife on his land, going so far as to attack hunters with a crossbow when he catches them poaching. To allay Malden's suspicions, Walker poses as a photographer. Turner plays Stella Clayton, a local storekeeper in whom both men are romantically interested. Stella is presumably a widow or divorcée, as she has a young son, Adam. Turner may have taken the part in order to try and play down the "femme fatale" image she had acquired after "Body Heat".

    "Variety" magazine accused the film of lacking dramatic tension or emotional involvement, and there is justice in the accusation. The main villain of the piece is Whittier, and he always keeps well away from the action. Walker, even at the beginning of the film, never seems very villainous, and by the end he is not a villain at all, having been converted to the conservationist cause by Jim and Stella. Malden is not always entirely sympathetic, seeming at times too fanatical and obsessive; putting a crossbow bolt through someone's leg is not generally regarded as the act of a Christian gentleman, even if done in an ostensibly good cause.

    The plot does not always flow very smoothly and there is, apparently, a reason for this. After filming had been completed, one of four reels of film went missing and the director Philippe Mora had, somehow, to put a coherent story together from the remaining three. Despite some attractive shots of the North Carolina scenery, "A Breed Apart" is a routine action thriller which is not always very thrilling, but given its strange history the finished product could have been much worse. 5/10
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    • Release date
      • June 22, 1984 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Posebna vrsta
    • Filming locations
      • Chimney Rock Park - Highway 64/74A, Chimney Rock, North Carolina, USA
    • Production companies
      • Hemdale
      • Sagittarius Productions
      • Cinema '84
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    • Budget
      • $3,000,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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