Reviews filed under Coburn: The Man The Myth The Legend.

THE BALTIMORE BULLET (1980)

Coburn plays the whimsical pool hustler Nick Casey. The movie centers on Coburn and his partner Billie Joe as they try to earn enough money to play against The Deacon, played by Omar Sharif. The Deacon is the top pool player in all of the country. After many cross country pool hall antics a big fifteen minute showdown ensues. The movie comes dangerously close to slapstick ....

CROSSOVER/MR. PATMAN (1980)

Coburn stars as the established, charming and well-liked Mr. Patman, chief of the night shift at some type of psychiatric ward. Through the course of banging chicks, popping pills and being paranoid, we slowly watch him go insane. Succeeds as a character study, but it fails to build the surrounding story to support said character. What we wind up with is a series of events and dialogue that have ....