6/5/2023 0 Comments Outlaw by Stephen Davies![]() ![]() ![]() She really does seem like a cool teacher. It’s too bad they didn’t stick with the idea, because a Rothrock version of THE SUBSTITUTE or ONLY THE STRONG would be right up my alley. But it’s true – she has a classroom, a chalkboard, she leaves with papers to grade, she runs into a student named Paris (Patrick Malone, THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES) and gives him his paper, she seems to be his history teacher. I was so confused by it that I reloaded the DVD two different times thinking I must’ve misinterpreted something. ![]() The biggest surprise about this movie is that after the opening it’s never relevant or mentioned that she’s a high school teacher. I got one very suspicious and insinuating eye on you, Mr. This is another TOP-GUN-coming-out-after- IRON-EAGLE situation. I assumed this was a reference to the Michelle Pfeiffer tough-and-inspirational-inner-city-teacher movie DANGEROUS MINDS, which also opened in black and white, until I realized that this came out three years earlier. RAGE AND HONOR (1992) opens in black and white – first, grainy high contrast footage of the city, maybe 16mm, then camcorder footage with scanlines – following leather-jacketed Kris Fairfield (Cynthia Rothrock) in an empty high school class room, finishing up her day of work and heading home. ![]()
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