Looking back at the ’80s, it’s hard to comprehend now not just how big a movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger was in those days but how much he contributed to genre cinema. Beginning with 1982’s Conan the Barbarian , the decade gave him an extraordinary run, taking in action, sci-fi and even comedy, pairing with Danny DeVito for 1988’s Twins . Somehow, he managed to fit the original The Running Man in between launching the Predator franchise and crossing the Iron Curtain for the cop caper Red Heat . Schwarzenegger was certainly shrewd in his choice of directors, too, working with the likes of James Cameron, Walter Hill and John McTiernan — and if first choice Andrew Davis hadn’t been fired, in favor of safe-pair-of-hands Paul Michael Glaser (aka TV’s Dave Starsky), perhaps The R

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