Ride in a Pink Car (1974)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Robert J. Emery

Writers:

Robert J. Emery (writer)
David Hall (writer)

Release Date:

June 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

There are two things in this world I hate... racial prejudice and Indians!

Plot:

A man, thought to be dead, returns to his hometown in Florida. He finds his wife re-married and the town now ruled by corrupt forces. |

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Cast

William Kerwin	...	Earl
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Erni Benet	...	Rain Eagle
John Carroll	...	Mr. Henry
Glenn Corbett	...	Gid Barker
Lennie Dee	...	Jonathan
Edward Faulkner	...	Frank Barber (as Ed Faulkner)
Big John Hamilton
Ivy Jones
Minor Mustain	...	Buck
Bill Thurman	...	Barlow
Doug Vance	...	Rick Richman
Billy Welu	...	Luke
Morgan Woodward	...	Jeff Richman

Runtime:

83 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Norway:16 | USA:PG

Company:

Victoria Capital Corporation

Don't take this ride

The plot is old but serviceable: a man returns to his hometown after years of absence to find that things have changed for the worse. However, for this plot to work, we need to know something about what the town was originally like and how the man fitted into it at that time. We also need to know something about why and how the town changed over the years.

The script to "Pink Car" doesn't give us enough of this background information and the result is a dreary, pointless, and not very interesting movie. It also suffers from a surfeit of villains and from a decidedly unattractive cast.

Glenn Corbett, who showed promise back in the late 1950s, had lost his youthful appeal by this point in his career and seems at least ten years too old for the part he's asked too play. Leading lady Ivy Jones is drab in a part that calls for style. The "Pink Car" of the title turns out to have little to do with the plot.