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Michael Allin (writer)
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1977 (USA) more
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The First Movie About Off-Road Racing. more
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Cast

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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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if it doesn't move, slo-mo it, 10 October 2009
3/10
Author: jonathan-577 from Canada

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.

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