Rob Price
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2024 December 20 • Friday

James Glickenhaus built on The Soldier's Meta Marquee moment in his next movie, 1988's Shakedown.

When we first meet the cop played by Sam Elliott, he's waking up during a movie in Times Square movie theatre, and it's actually the ski chase with Uzis scene from The Soldier! So he wakes up for the best part!

Then Peter Weller's defense attorney character finds him to talk about the case he's working on, and we see them with posters for both The Exterminator and The Soldier, then follow them outside to see both movies on the marquee, indicating that a Glickenhaus double feature is on!

Also intriguing is that Peter Weller's character is named Dalton and the very next year Sam Elliot would partner up with Patrick Swayze in Road House, and Swayze's character is also named Dalton!

You can call it a coincidence if you want.