The Quest

It's published by the same Bear Manor that put out, um, Bear Manor is the publisher that put out the Sheldon Lettich book, which was fun.

but I convinced them to let me put my chapter on the quest on my website.

So I'll send you a link to that.

Cause it's funny because we were talking about the way that he likes to be portrayed.

I had to buy a whole other player.

That's a whole other thing.

But there's a scene in that where he talks about his followup to the quest as a director.

Anyway, it's not related to the quest.

Certainly.

Even, you know, some stuff in here like Jean-Claude Van Damme, The Quest, which is one he directed.

I asked, uh, Alex at Retro Gold for that one 'cause I wanted one of those for my own personal collection.

My movie obsession started when I had insomnia when I was a little kid, and I was like eight or nine, and my grandma bought me a VCR.

And then...

I went to an audition before I left for The Quest.

Have you heard of that? Yes.

And Roger Moore was in there.

But before we get to Halloween month, we've got one last one in us starting off the fall.

The Quest, 1996.

Okay.

The quest.

A group of gentlemen of fortune visits a legendary quote-unquote lost city located in Tibet.

They plan to steal a priceless statue, Golden Dragon, during the martial arts tournament.

Thank you.

Tell Jeremy stories.

Also, rather peculiar curio on the BBC this week in 1996, the legacy of reginald perrin in which they attempt to make a spin-off to reginald perrin um without reginald penning because uh because uh leonard rossiter died some years ago so um that was a very sort of curious kind of thing it was a lot of archive footage and basically the idea is is that he's died and he's left this kind of million pound legacy to family members but with conditions it's a very odd thing ed this was this was a sort of yes this was a kind of weird spin-off we may be living in a world where we get spin-offs and spin-offs and spin-offs now hello star wars etc but um but yeah it's it this is old for the time i think really and and old for any time

uh zoe ball and jamie fexton present their first episode of live and kicking and those this week in the cinemas Independence Day spent a seventh consecutive week at the top of the UK box office just shy of £800,000 taken the Demi Moore Burt Reynolds film Striptease is the highest new entry at number two Kurt Russell's Escape from LA enters at number six the Jean-Claude Van Damme film The Quest is at number seven oh

yes

in sports the Czech Republic midfielder Patrick Berger remember he signed for Liverpool he started looking briefly like the greatest player in history in back-to-back races and he scores them in the space of this week in 1996 West Ham United win 2-0 away at Nottingham Forest Queen's Park Rangers drew 1-1 away at Swindon Stevenage Borough lose 3-0 away at Kidderminster Harriers but then win 3-0 at home against Bromsgrove Rovers all Stevenage Borough stats courtesy of Stevenage Pete hello Pete

That's fair.

Legionnaire and The Quest are the movies that I use as examples when people are like, Bloodsport and Kickboxer are bad.

I'm like, oh no.

No, they're not.

No, you can't.

Let's go to our next one that, um, you've seen, now, the movie that you've seen, which is The Quest on Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Oh, of course.

Yeah.

And, uh, Roger Moore, Lewis Mandalore.

So what Lewis Mandalore, we know the plot to The Quest.

We don't need to go over The Quest.

Everyone knows The Quest.

in

The Quest, which I believe is directed by Roger

Moore.

My God.

That was a bomb.

That was a bomb, yep.

Yeah, The Quest is the first movie where things started to really go down for him in terms of like, yeah, for sure.

It's

Sir Roger Moore

Repeat offender from The Quest

Lord Dobbs himself

The Saint was directed by Philip Noyce.

We are in the pocket.

Was it too long before he was making The Quest? And I was begging my mom if I could go see it in theaters.

The Vanishing.

I know I mentioned it last time, but if anyone wants to watch a very disturbing arthouse film and have that movie turn off in like an hour and a half and you just sit there like in silence because you're not quite sure what to do with yourself, that's one you should consider.

Like, they're building, building, building to something, and then they fucking open up on you in the last two episodes.

But it's – because, I mean, this was written in the 70s by this science fiction writer, and he's actually interacting with people on threads who are now discovering this book, and they're, like, asking questions.

He's answering the questions and stuff.

It's really cool.