{"id":31062,"date":"2022-12-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31062"},"modified":"2022-12-03T09:05:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T14:05:14","slug":"assassin-1986-starring-robert-conrad-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31062","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Assassin&#8221; (1986) starring Robert Conrad \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z120322zview_assassin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Assassin <\/strong><\/em>(1986)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Sandor Stern<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Sandor Stern<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Robert Conrad, Karen Austin, Richard Young, Jonathan Banks, Robert Webber<\/strong> and <strong>Bob Hoy<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Stanton Thought He Had Fought His Final Mission &#8230; Think Again!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Henry Stanton (Conrad) is a retired government agent, called back into service to kill a robot assassin!\u00a0 The robot looks human, but is nearly indestructible.\u00a0 Time is running out as the robot has a kill list and top government officials are on it!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Assassin<\/em> has the feel of an 1980s tv movie made to cash in on the popularity of <em>The Terminator<\/em>.\u00a0 Probably because it was just that.\u00a0 I loved Robert Conrad in <em>The Wild, Wild West<\/em>.\u00a0 Unfortunately Robert Conrad&#8217;s character here has none of the charm or action hero charisma of James West.\u00a0 Jonathon Banks doesn&#8217;t get much to do, but it&#8217;s cool seeing him pre-<em>Wiseguy<\/em> and decades before <em>Breaking Bad\/Better Call Saul<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">See the photo below of Robert Conrad?\u00a0 He&#8217;s looking for something else to watch.\u00a0 I should have as well.\u00a0 Your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Assassin <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z120322zview_assassin2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assassin (1986) Director: Sandor Stern Screenplay:\u00a0 Sandor Stern Stars: Robert Conrad, Karen Austin, Richard Young, Jonathan Banks, Robert Webber and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31151,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31062\/revisions\/31151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}