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Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
Down-on-their-luck racers Larry and Deke steal from a supermarket manager to buy a car that will help them advance their racing chances. Their escape does not go as planned when Larry's one-night stand, Mary, tags along for the ride.
Release : | 1974 |
Rating : | 6.6 |
Studio : | 20th Century Fox, Academy Pictures, Academy Pictures Corporation, |
Crew : | Production Design, Property Master, |
Cast : | Peter Fonda Susan George Adam Roarke Kenneth Tobey Lynn Borden |
Genre : | Adventure Action Comedy Crime |
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Very Cool!!!
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This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
(Flash Review)Thin on story, heavy on Duke Boys style chases in some southern state. Fonda's character has dreams of becoming a NASCAR racer and he has a mechanic friend both in need of cash to build a car together. So these two idiots, rob a store to get money to build their car. At some point, a gal Fonda shagged, comes along for the ride as she was mad he thought of her as a one night stand. The characters aren't annoying and sprinkle of some light humor amongst the several long chase and crash scenes. High quality car stunts with no CGI and without speeding up the footage, led to fun excitement, lots of smashing and even a brave helicopter pilot getting in the mix. Will they escape to pursue their dreams or will they get outwitted by some pure southern cops? Not a good movie overall but is a very good movie early in the car chase genre.
DIRTY MARY, CRAZY LARRY is a film that cashes in on the '70s-era craze for road movies and in particular car chase flicks. This decade saw the likes of VANISHING POINT and GONE IN 60 SECONDS wowing audiences with their depictions of high-speed pursuit, something that this movie is keen to work with.The result is only semi-successful, however, and the reason for its slightly lacklustre playing out is purely down to the script. This is the kind of dialogue that must already have been cheesy and dated on first release, with the characters spouting unbelievable 'counter culture' style lines as they 'stick it to the man'. It makes the whole thing feel incredibly dated and not necessarily in a good way.Still, there's stuff here to be enjoyed, not least another one of those laid-back stoner type performances from Peter Fonda. Watch out for Vic Morrow, chewing the scenery with relish, although you also need to be warned: this film features copious amounts of Susan George, giving the worst approximation of an American accent that I've yet to hear. Imagine Keanu in BRAM STOKER'S Dracula; yep, it is that bad.As expected, the film features plenty of car chases and some good stunt crashes that reminded me of the likes of LIVE AND LET DIE. It's no classic, to be sure, but it's not bad as a fitting product of its era and that ending still packs one hell of a wallop.
Larry Rayder (Peter Fonda) is an aspiring NASCAR driver, Deke Sommers (Adam Roarke) his mechanic. As they feel they collectively are the best, the only thing that is holding them back is money to build the best vehicle possible. As such, they decide to rob a supermarket's office of the money in its safe to pursue their dream.Roddy McDowall appears in an uncredited cameo, presumably as a favor to director John Hough who had him starring the year before in "Legend of Hell House". (Indeed, Hough's career is largely built on horror films and this is a bit outside of the norm.) I expected this film to be a lot of fun, especially now that Quentin Tarantino has championed it and Shout Factory felt the need to give it a Blu-ray release. Indeed, it is fun, but I am not sure if it was everything I hoped it would be.
I had heard of this movie by title only and finally got to see it. My mistake. This was poorly written, poorly directed and poorly casted. If I was supposed to accept these three as anti-heroes, sorry to disappoint you. I didn't feel for any of them, not even during the introspective walnut grove scene. Peter Fonda was OK. I couldn't wrap my mind around what the other guy was supposed to be. And Susan George... well, I don't know what she normally looks like to make a "best-looking" list but she did NOT look good in that film. Then there's Vic Morrow's character. What the hell? Was I supposed to accept him as some sort of super-cop? He just came across as a dick with nothing to back up the character. And what's with Vic Morrow and helicopters anyway? The dialogue was horrible. It was disjointed and wordy at times. And there's nothing like an abrupt ending. You saw it coming but it was like "BANG!... Done." Chalk this one up to a car chase movie and not a very good one. Take it off your queue list and find something else.