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Best movie of this year hands down!

To me, this movie is perfection.

hyped garbage

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Eddie Moore (Stephen McHattie) is an amiable drifter passing through the town of Rockfield. Predictably, he gets harassed by the snake-mean local sheriff, a man named Rankin (Lonny Chapman). His day is brightened, however, when he meets lovely young Dairy Queen employee Cam Johnson (Ms. Lenz). They hit it off and go sneaking onto the estate of the local bigwig (Will Geer) after whom the town is named. From their vantage point they are able to see the sheriff - who, naturally, is also flat out corrupt - shoot and badly wound a greedy deputy (Dennis Redfield) who wanted in on the action. So Eddie and Cam have to spend the balance of the movie on the lam, dodging bullets fired by the sheriff and his cronies, while trying to find a sympathetic pair of ears.As one can see, this is very much formula-driven drive-in car chase and car crash fare. The characters are for the most part clichés, especially the one-dimensional villainous sheriff. Fortunately, the good thing that can often be said for exploitation entertainment of this variety is its unpretentious nature. It *does*, ultimately, show its viewers a reasonably good time, with plenty of pedal to the metal action and enough explosions to keep a persons' attention from wandering too much. McHattie and especially Lenz are watchable as the hero and heroine, and Chapman is just right as their persistent, nasty nemesis. Geer is too briefly seen, and under-utilized, but does a fine job nonetheless. The supporting cast includes such familiar faces as Jack Murdock, the ubiquitous and always welcome Dick Miller, and Paul Linke, but the movie really belongs to the excellent Eddie Albert, playing attorney Alex Warren, who decides to take the kids' case.Executive produced by Roger Corman, and produced by his wife Julie, this features a flavourful bluegrass score by Don Peake and a catchy ditty titled "Detroit Man" sung by Phil Everly. It's pretty much average for its genre, but still proves to be engaging enough to watch.Six out of 10.

In the 1970s, just about nobody understood the drive-in audience like movie producer Roger Corman. So it should come as no surprise that several times in the 1970s, major Hollywood movie studios hired Corman to make drive-in movies for them. "Moving Violation" was one of those movies, but despite the resources of a major studio at hand, it isn't very successful for the most part. The movie does look slicker and more expensive than Corman's independent movies of the time, but not by much. There's almost no effort in writing a story or characters with depth - we don't even learn the name of one of the lovers before the two of them go on the run! As a result, the actors for the most part aren't able to do much with their characters, though Eddie Albert does shine in his somewhat brief role. As for action sequences, it's mostly car chases done in standard mode, so they lack excitement. If you're desperate, this may help 91 or so minutes to pass by, but even then you might wonder if this is a good way to use your time.

My aunt used to paint these oils of things like Maine lighthouses. The canvas boards came with the outlines of all the objects already on it. Each space was filled with a number. If a given space on the canvas, say the sky, was labeled "9", she'd fill in the space with a color from the little tube labeled "9. Blue." She was very precise. No golden, end-of-summer wheat field ever shimmered indistinctly against the hazy horizon. The Number 6 paint ended sharply and the Number 7 paint began.Aunt Olga could have directed this movie. There may not be a single convention or cliché neglected. McHattie and Lenz are falsely accused by Lonnie Chapman, as Sheriff Rankin, of murdering a deputy in a small California town. The town and its boss, Will Geer, make a federal case out of it, as if the two fugitives were mass murderers. They even draw in a "gang of terrorists" and "commies".The movie is almost entirely one long car chase. Bullets fly. Lenz grits her teeth behind the wheel. McHattie, in the shotgun seat, purses his lips and looks bemused, as well he might. Eddie Albert is in here but doesn't appear until the movie is half over -- and don't blink.Every car chase is undercranked, meaning the cars are filmed in accelerated motion. They zip around curves, plow through stop signs, have their tops surgically removed by the eighteen-wheelers under which they slide. This convention dates back to the Keystone Cops but was almost uniformly observed in car chases. The first time I realized that a car could roll off the road at an ordinary speed was when the Volkswagon tips over in "Wild Strawberries." But when there is a motor accident of any kind, the film toggles into slow motion so the viewer can enjoy the spectacle of a cop car tumbling into a ditch, snapping off the open door of a parked vehicle, or smashing into a brick wall.I don't see much reason to get into the plot or many of its elements, such as the rollicking smith-kicker banjo and fiddle tune that goes with the action. If it's not Number 9 Blue, it's Number 2 Earth Brown. You've seen all the hues before.Stephen McHattie is an actor of slight talent. Kay Lenz, ditto, but Lenz has something going for her -- an odd beauty, a big grin set in a wide jaw that inspires admiration and a little trepidation. (Those teeth.) She has a fine figure too, sassy where it ought to be, and it reassures me that I'm not a woman trapped in a man's body, only a perfectly normal human being. Huck. Huck. Excuse me. HACK. Whew! That was a fur ball from hell.Don't miss it if you can.

While watching "Moving Violation" I wanted to know where this movie was filmed. There wasn't any reference to filming locations on the IMDb web site. In the process of watching the movie Moving Violation, I saw street signs for HIGHWAY 23, POINDEXTER AVE and also some railroad tracks. Going to Google, Highway 23, Poindexter Ave and the railroad tracks for Southern Pacific are all in Moorpark Caifornia. At the end of the movie at the court house scene when they were going to give themselves up, there was a miniature oil well derrick next to the steps to the court house. Moorpark has some oil wells, as were visible in some of the movie scenes. Does anyone know where the fruit grove scenes were filmed ?