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Message #01282
To: 'rdraycott@CPL.co.uk' rdraycott@CPL.co.uk; beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Philip Barnes Philip.Barnes@liffe.com
Date: Thursday, March 04, 1999 5:06 AM
Subject: RE: Hollywood walkers
>The film was "Runaway" - 1984, directed and written by Micheal Crichton.
>
>Check out http://us.imdb.com/Details?Runaway+(1984)
>and http://members.xoom.com/scifimovies/runaway.html
>
>I remember the walkers, too. Very much like spiders.
>
>As an aside, the British comic "2000 AD" had a series of Judge Dredd
stories
>featuring the character "P.J. Maybe" who built similar-style walkers that
>injected poison into victims. He put the walkers into letterboxes to murder
>local residents in his block. Might be easier to get a few back-issues than
>Runaway pics.
>
>Phil B.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rdraycott@CPL.co.uk [SMTP:rdraycott@CPL.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 12:26 PM
> To: beam@corp.sgi.com
> Subject: Hollywood walkers
>
>
>
>
> I remember a film but can't remember the title that had some walkers
>in it
> that where quite funky
> the film stared Tom Selek ( the man from Magnum ....remember)
> Tom was a policeman in charge of a unit who sorted out robots gone
>haywire
> and foiled the diabolical plans of a madman
> who had a gun that had targeting bullets.... and poison injecting
> walkers!!!!!
> Does anyone know the film or if there is anything out there on the
>NET ref
> these walkers perhaps a photo or two?
>
>
> RobD
>
> AKA" Robert N Draycott PowerBuilder"
>
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