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Michael Allin (writer)
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1977 (USA)
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The First Movie About Off-Road Racing. more
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Car Chase
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Off Road
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Prize Money
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Jungle
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Journalist
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if it doesn't move, slo-mo it
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Joe Don Baker | ... | Walkaway Madden |
 | Susan Sarandon | ... | C.C. Wainwright |
 | Larry Hagman | ... | Bo Cochran |
| Alan Vint | ... | Doc Pyle |
| Parnelli Jones | ... | Himself |
 | Logan Clarke | ... | Ringer |
| Daina House | ... | Rider in Black |
| Michel Pitton | ... | Perrier |
| Bert Leroy Jr. | ... | Fly (as Bert LeRoy) |
| Dick Adair | ... | Adams |
| Bill Cross | ... | Angel |
| Ben Leeman | ... | Pits |
| Eazy Black | ... | Wilkinson |
| Cachupoy | ... | Ramon |
| Eddie Mercado | ... | Reporter |
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USA:95 min
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For a movie that is of no interest whatsoever, this has quite a lot going for it, especially in the acting department: Larry Hagman, Susan Sarandon, Joe Don Baker et al are relaxed and agreeable. But no one manages to channel the glib repartee into anything resembling a character, in part because their contributions are mere slivers of celluloid crammed between pictures of cars driving around. Which does make a depressing kind of sense, since it's a racing movie; what makes no sense at all, especially given some promising set-ups, is the total absence of kinetics or pyrotechnics. It's a total arbitrary mess, looks like it wasn't even storyboarded. The filmmakers revert to slow motion every single time anyone does anything other than drive in a straight line, but that doesn't fool anyone. The one punctuation mark of the whole movie comes at the climactic Baker-Alan Vint coin toss, and I laughed as hard as anyone, but a REAL movie has one moment like that per scene. Allow me to lodge a special protest on behalf of poor Daina House, who is required to regress from classic tough-chick to wilting sex object the moment some creep gives her a flower.