Watch: The Domino Principle 1977 123movies, Full Movie Online – Tucker is a chronic underachiever and a loser. A Vietnam war veteran who just can’t seem to keep out of trouble, in the years since his discharge. The only thing he got out of the war was his skill with a rifle. Now, serving a long stretch in prison for murder, he has hit rock-bottom. But one day a man in a three-piece suit visits him in prison, a man he has never seen before, and informs him that he can walk out of prison a free man if he will shoot someone for them, no questions asked..
Plot: Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he will be released if he agrees to carry out a dangerous assignment.
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Part of a Paranoiac Triple Threat
The odd man out (in quality), Stanley Kramer’s The Domino Principle taps into the some of the same paranoiac conspiracy gunk that glops up our thinking to this day, and drives the same ground as The Parallax View, Executive Action, Enemy of the State, JFK, etc.Should I go on?
And yet, I remember enjoying the book and the movie, not only because I was one of the unwashed masses way back when, believing in anything conspiratorial, but because it seemed out of the norm. I was raised on TV cop dramas, where everything was wrapped up in 52 minutes and I could count the times the bad guys won on one hand.
I won’t give enough away to have to mark the spoiler box, but The Domino Principle, headed by Gene Hackman and followed by a really strong cast (except for Candice Bergen, who is utterly cringeworthy), has bad guys fighting worse guys–a concept foreign to my prime time sensibilities.
I remember liking the movie, but after thirty years, I’ll be lying if I told you I can remember much about it.
With that in mind, I’d say rent it–if you can find it–and throw in Parallax and Executive for a triple-header of evil industrialists, mind-controllers, and sad, little heroes trying to avoid getting squashed.
Then return to the real world and repeat the following:
“Oswald acted alone.”
Not as bad as the rap it’s taking here!
OK, so there seem to be a lot of loose ends in this Black-Ops thriller, but hey, that’s the way it is in real life…compartmentalized.The fine cast acquits itself and the production values are good, if one has trouble following the story line, then perhaps fewer trips to the fridge and less yakking during the flick are in order…and frankly it did help to read Kennedy’s novel prior to viewing.
It seems that during and shortly after the Watergate Adventures, Hollywood decided to crank out a series of “The-Government-is out-to-get-you flicks, “The Parralex View” and “Executive Action” serve as the best examples, but this one can hold it’s own if you put the plot in the proper perspective…hell, even Hackman’s character doesn’t know all that is going on, so viewers should not feel left in the dark alone.
My main complaint is the lousy wig that Wardrobe forced on Candice…why?
The trick to this one is get your munchies and drinks BEFORE the movie rolls, and just keep repeating to yourself: “Salami, cheese, and pickles in a barrel.”
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 40 min (100 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Thriller
Director Stanley Kramer
Writer Adam Kennedy
Actors Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark
Country United States, United Kingdom
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 2,730 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm