Magnum Mania!

The Magnum look-a-like contest video included links to other Selleck clips. This looks a bit goofy, but right around MPI time, or just before. Any ideas?

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=J0W1FA9y- ... re=related

I've never seen that one before. I wonder if it was a pilot that was never picked up?

That's from the 1979 TV movie The Concrete Cowboys (with Morgan Fairchild, Claude Atkins and our old friend Red West), or so I've been told anyway. I still have yet to see it.

Thanks for the info James.

Thanks James!

I had this horrible feeling it was similar to Stallone's Italian Stallion.

Yep, that`s from "Concrete cowboys" and believe me it`s the best scene of the whole thing

Er...I've seen the whole movie, and it's not bad. It's not great, either, but I found it reasonably easy to sit through. Jerry Reed got top billing, and Tom Selleck would've been the sidekick. At this time, Tom Selleck would've been a relative nobody, and Jerry Reed, having been in all those Smoky and the Bandit movies, would've been considered the star. However, you can see that Tom inadvertantly steals every scene he's in, despite Jerry Reed's frantic mugging. This could very well have been a pilot that never made it to series, but was nonetheless released either for broadcast as a stand alone movie, or abroad as a feature film.

What's instructive about this movie is seeing how natural an actor Tom Selleck is even at this early juncture in his career. With an actor of lesser abilities this would've been a boring and thankless straight man role. Selleck's star quality in what is otherwise a pedestrian vehicle is very evident.

For the curious, you can find this used from Amazon, as a VHS tape, but it's strictly something for the serious fan. It's certainly not an unheralded gem!