First Into Action: A Dramatic Personal Account of Life Inside the SBS

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Tim Robey of The Telegraph sums up the film: "Wholly useless, entirely harmless, Stratton would be good clean fun, if it was good or fun. Stephen Dalton of The Hollywood Reporter was critical of the "creaky script and dim-witted plot" saying the film "offers little but dusty old thriller cliches borrowed from better films.

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Letter to The Daily Telegraph Duncan Falconer | 29 October 2020 SIR – Mark Almond (Comment October 27) is right in his assessment of the potential for shipjacking. Four beers are available on a permanent basis plus an extensive range of constantly changing seasonal and occasional cask ales. In this second military thriller, John Stratton has been commissioned as a bodyguard but is bored with the new assignment. On 3 November 2014 it was announced that Henry Cavill would next star in the action thriller film Stratton, to be produced by his own banner Promethean Productions, Amber Entertainment, and GFM Films.To read more about the site or if you want a graphic to link to us, see the about page for more details. There is a speedboat chase with heavy gunfire, before the final action sequence, which takes place in London with the poison device loaded onto a double-decker bus whose destination is shown as Clapham Common (so as to blend in). Meanwhile, in an Elizabethan country house, SBS operative Stratton has been seconded to bodyguard work and is bored by the lack of challenge. Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote: "Solidly professional in overall packaging yet clichéd, pedestrian and indistinct in specific contributions, this thriller never finds (let alone raises) its own pulse.

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After starring for Hibs’ second team, Falconer would make his first-team debut at centre-half in a 3-2 victory against St Mirren at Love Street on November 7, 1959, and had done more than enough to impress one journalist the following morning, who commented, “A healthy feature of Hibs’ victory on Saturday was the extremely promising debut by the young Duncan Falconer.In just over five seasons at Easter Road, Falconer would make 63 appearances in all competitions for the first team. At age 19 he went to the SBS (special boat services) selection in Poole Dorset and was only one of nine Marines (out of a class of 147 other men) to successfully complete the challenging SBS course. A versatile player who was comfortable at either inside-forward, wing-half or centre-half, the strongly-built youngster was said to have been attracting the attention of Motherwell before Hibs manager Hugh Shaw stepped in to secure his signature. In what initially appears to be a distraction, he’s teamed up with a Scotland Yard analyst to investigate a mysterious organisation that executes killers of military personnel. Hunted by the CIA and FBI as well as a brutal army of Albanian mobsters and armed only with his wits and an extraordinary skill with explosives, Stratton relentlessly pursues his private war; a fight he suspects could be his last.