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5.1/10   50 votes
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Director:
Burt Topper
Writer:
Burt Topper (writer)
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Release Date:
28 August 1972 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Action | Drama more
Tagline:
Two pretty classy machines... it will take some kind of man to handle both. more
Plot:
While in Vietnam, a GI promises his dying buddy that he'll take care of his motorcycle, "Baby", when he gets back home... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
An Embarrassing Waste Of Film more (5 total)

Cast

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Robert Fuller ... Phil
Sherry Bain ... Sheryl
Tony Russel ... Big Red
William Bonner ... Grady
Biff Elliot ... Mike
Albert Cole ... Mooch
Phyllis Selznick ... Rita
R.L. Armstrong ... Jason
Robert Swan ... Ted
Herman Rudin ... Little Horse
Rachel English
Robert Tessier

Gus Peters
Ron Stokes
Del Russel ... Nico
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Runtime:
93 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:X (original rating) | Finland:K-18 (cut) (1973) | Sweden:15 | USA:GP
Company:
American International Pictures (AIP) more

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Featured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 3 (1996) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Swing Low Sweet Chariot more

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An Embarrassing Waste Of Film, 25 August 2006
2/10
Author: garytheroux

While the two leads here are adequate for this type of bottom-of-the-bill movie, one has to admit that this is the kind of film one would find at a drive-in in 1971 -- a drive-in occupied entirely by couples far too busy making out in their back seats to ever glance at the screen or even hook the speaker to their car windows. It's hard to figure what's worse here -- the lousy script and direction, idiotic soundtrack music, the cheapo production techniques, the poor editing, the badly choreographed fight scenes ("heightened" by inexplicable slo-mo) or the stupidly clichéd plot and characters. The motorcycle sequences are almost laughable. The childish dopes the movie tries to typify would have been just as awesome on bicycles with training wheels. What an embarrassing waste of film.

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