trashgang
Never seen this one until I went to a convention about muscle cars. On the background there was a projection of flicks with the most popular muscle car chases. And this was amongst the viewing. A total strange flick to me but it do has Peter Fonda (Larry), Easy Rider (1969) fame in it and Susan George (Mary), Straw Dogs (1971) fame. The story is rather simple, Larry, a Stock car racer and his mechanic Deke (Adam Roarke) want to have some extra cash for a better car, so they decide to rob a miljonair. Things go well but Larry is out with a hooker (Mary) and so when he and Deke wants to move further somehow Mary is involved. That's to be honest the story. It's the cars itself that are more important here because it's a pure road movie. Excellent filming and editing and of course a Chevy Impala and a Dodge Charger as the main lead. A bit of fun with the cops here and there, you know, they are supposed to be stupid, and a great ending too. Cult classic.
Gore 0/5
Nudity 0/5
Effects 0/5
Story 3/5
Comedy 0/5
classicsoncall
This appears to be one of those pictures where the reviewers who love and hate the movie both acknowledge that it's generally bad, cinematically speaking. The dialog is trite and the characters are a mess, and the film that's wrapped around them tends to be pretty much one big chase scene. Peter Fonda obviously didn't mind cashing in his chips at the end of his films, as he followed up 1969's "Easy Rider" by going out in a blaze of glory in this one. There's nothing that really sets one up for that moment, so when it happens you're left looking at the screen wondering how and why the film makers treated their characters in such an ignominious way. But then I answer my own question by re-reading what I wrote just a few sentences back and it all becomes much clearer. I guess if hot rods and hot babes are your thing, this movie might pose some interest, but if so, I'd take the advice of Fonda's 'Crazy Larry' and hook up with Robert Mitchum in 1958's "Thunder Road". Now there's a bad boy.
vpinzovski
I was trying to find this movie for a very long time and I finally got it.Its my No.1 still Its interesting to know that this movie ended on a same way as "Wanishing point" from 1971.Peter Fonda here have made a great role same as Susan George.I usually like this adventure movie, spec. that part where we have car race.I wonder if this movie was produced in 1973 or in 1974????.Some years ago I watch it on our local TV station here and I was very happy that I was watching on TV :-).Im trying to find more movies like this with car chase but still I cant find list of it.In the end I will suggest to my friends to see this one, and I know it will tell me Its an old one but still my best movie and my No.1 great job :-)
evening1
Peter Fonda's on the road again -- but as an Easy Rider of a whole nuther stripe. Here he's a wisecracking psychopath who races his chartreuse Chevy down backroads like they're NASCAR -- other traffic, cop cars or not, be damned.This trip is one long chase scene with the law after Crazy Larry, his deadpan partner (a sublime Adam Roarke), and Susan George's Dirty Mary flee with a cache of ill-gotten ransom.This set-in-the-middle-of-nowhere movie keeps you interested mainly for the repartee among its cast, rounded out by a world-weary Vic Morrow, who plays a police captain with contempt for underlings who'd do a lot better if he'd buy them a decent patrol car.Each of the characters here really IS a character, and they form the motliest of ensembles that's lots of fun to watch. Fonda and Roark are perfectly paired foils. Mary seems wild-eyed nuts at times. But otherwise, "Dingleberry" can be exquisitely perceptive. "Things felt a little too good for you last night -- so you ran!" she yells at Larry. And later, "people don't even rate a glance with you." Moments before the movie's shocking ending she brilliantly declares her final gambit.The rivalry between Morrow and his superior on the force is an unlikely treat along the way. (It's a little creepy to see Morrow, only eight years from the freak helicopter accident that took his life, pursuing crooks in a chopper that's low on fuel.) In all, an entertaining example of Seventies film at its best.
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