Ravagers (1979)
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Ravagers (1979)
Ravagers was one of a number of post-apocalyptic seventies films, like The Ultimate Warrior (75) which it most resembles, that sort of got lost in the shuffle and forgotten after the new breed of Road Warrior-styled films took over in the eighties. This one is after a nuclear war (narrator and star Richard Harris simply refers to "disasters") and the titular characters are a select breed of survivors who move around like wolf packs, preying on others who are usually termed "flockers." Everything is dead or dying, illustrated by frequent shots of dead trees (The Road ain't got much on Ravagers).
The leader of one particular band of Ravagers (played by seventies bad guy Anthony James) gets on the bad side of the main character, Falk (Harris), after his band rapes and kills Falk's woman, a young, gentle blonde (Alana Hamilton). Falk gets his revenge by sneaking up and killing the bad guy's brother, but from then on Falk is on the run. He runs across an old, addled sergeant (Art Carney) holed up in a missile silo base and then finds another woman (model and then-wife-of Harris, Ann Turkel) at a small cave settlement. Then they're off to perhaps the most civilized settlement, run by Ernest Borgnine on a derelict cruise ship. Woody Strode also shows up here as one of Borgnine's men. But, the Ravager band is not far behind.
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