Hello, and it’s time for a 50 ¢ movie. This one with Mister Easy rider himself Peter Fonda It starts with a kidnapping. A man’s family is held hostage with the threat of rape as Peter Fonda goes to collect a large sum of money from him at his work. He is distracted by Susan George Our Dirty Mary in a denim bikini halter top while trying to make his getaway she joins their run from the law before they pick up Peter Fonda’s partner in crime Deke (played by Adam Roark).
Now we’re off to a lot of good driving scenes and a lot of clueless police disagreeing. And of course the hippie cop that refuses to wear a gun gets crap from his superiors. It truly is classic. Peter Fonda and his fellow fugitives get on to lots of lurid bickering and banter, with some dated cheesy lines. Susan George pulls the white trash role off perfect. It’s Just the kind of stuff that worked in movies like this. I’ve heard that Tarantino loves this one and by the banter I think I see why, and I think I see where some of his inspiration comes from.
It takes about forty five minutes to get to the first car chase which is over quick due to dumb luck. From there our friends go on to jump a draw bridge while it rises. Then Franklin our hippie cop gives his anti establishment speech. Peter Fonda seemed to want to make a statement in some of the movies he did, I get it, the hippie freedom put it to the man thing, but it was cheesy. Cheesy is not bad to me. I like it in this movie; it seems to work almost like it did in Easy Rider.There is a great scene where the trio goes to a swap meet and it is just full of wonderful colorful redneck characters. Deke starts to shine as the movie goes on. You start to see more fear and annoyance in his face, the worry is apparent. Deke seems to be the only sensible one of the three as Mary and Larry just go on with their flirtatious shenanigans.
The ending is very much Easy Rider. With an abrupt unrelated death of our main characters just as they taste freedom. Overall it is equal to Easy Rider but parts might be better than Easy Rider. So I suggest checking this one out.
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