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Don't take this ride
The plot is old merely serviceable: a man returns to his hometown after years of absence to find that things take inverse for the worse. However, for this plot to work, we need to know something about what the boondocks was originally like and how the human being fitted into it at that time. We as well need to know something almost why and how the town inverse over the years.
The script to "Pink Car" doesn't give united states of america 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 hope back in the late 1950s, had lost his youthful entreatment past this point in his career and seems at least x years too old for the function he's asked likewise play. Leading lady Ivy Jones is drab in a part that calls for style. The "Pinkish Car" of the title turns out to have little to practise with the plot.
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An excellent and unjustly overlooked seventy'southward bulldoze-in gem
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A surprisingly taut and involving 70's B picture sleeper which has undeservedly slipped through the cracks and into obscurity. Gid Barker (coolly played with house inner resolve past Glenn Corbett), a fiercely self-reliant nonconformist loner Vietnam veteran, returns later on a two year tour of duty to his jerkwater hometown of Benton, Florida to meet a decidedly dank and unwelcoming committee that's more like a lynch mob. Dorsum in the day Gid was a hell-raising womanizing troublemaker, then the guys in boondocks are eager to put the thumbscrews to him. Gid winds upwards killing a man in self-defense force when i dude picks a fight with him in a bar. Gid steals a souped-upwardly pink Plymouth Fury and with his loyal, laid-dorsum Native American pal Ray (affable Doug Van) and old flame Shirley (sweet Ivy Jones) in tow goes on the lam. The dead homo's vengeful father (a stern, steely Morgan Woodard) forms a posse (the ever welcome Bill Thurman every bit an odious racist deputy among 'em) to track Gid down. Gid in turn opens up a male monarch-sized butt of pure destruction on the seething, mean little backwards village. Skillfully directed by Robert J. Emery, this exciting and resolutely tough-minded winner packs an unexpectedly powerful punch, thanks to David Hall's compact, incisive script, a strikingly unflattering portrait of hicksville heartland America as a resentful hotbed of repressive toe-the-line conformity (Gid's refusal to go along in order to get along makes him a much despised and ridiculed pariah), Vic Caeser'due south jaunty country and western score, complexly fatigued characters, thrilling outbursts of deftly staged action, Jack Richards' solid cinematography, beyond-the-lath aces acting, and a painfully on-target "you can't go home" cardinal message. A fine, gritty and shamefully neglected drive-in jewel.
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A.W.O.L. Veteran's Effort At Returning To His Home Town Meets With No Success.
When Gid Barker (Glenn Corbett) returns from Ground forces service in Vietnam to his dwelling house boondocks of Benton, Florida, he is met by a less than civil welcome from many of his former friends. Gid is generally believed to have been killed in military activeness, only in reality is A.West.O.50. His sometime girlfriend Sheryl (Ivy Jones) is married to Gid's blood brother, his final employer will not rehire him because he was also greatly admired by female person co-workers, all while numerous others in Benton would seemingly have much preferred that he really had died in gainsay. Nevertheless, Gid perseveres in carrying out a plan to regain his old continuing in the boondocks. Unfortunately, he past blow kills the son of one of Benton's leading citizens, and the bulk of the picture show is taken up with Gid'due south attempts to abscond from a contingent of the townsfolk who are intent upon lynching him. The film lacks focus despite this bleakly propitious foundation, largely as a issue of numerous subsidiary characters, too many of whom vanish following an initial strongly scripted appearance. Jones as Sheryl, although she refuses to believe that Gib is actually guilty of anything at all, displays few of those merits, concrete or otherwise, that would attract a womanizing not-conformist such as is Gib. The title's pinkish vehicle is a brand new Plymouth Satellite Sebring, stolen past Gib from a moronic tourist and then well-nigh, and to no point, demolished by a stunt driver during several inane scenes. The piece of work was shot entirely in Rubonia, Florida, shut to Tampa, seemingly during a particularly hot spell, every bit the cast is drenched with perspiration, equally is their clothing. Well-nigh of the cast and coiffure are residents of Florida, a clear benefit to what plainly is a modest-approaching production. Corbett, who co-starred with Martin Milner on the popular 1960s television series "Route 66", tries manfully to make sense of his function here, but this is a poor vehicle for him, since very piffling occurs to capture a viewer's sympathy, and the ending of the film is baffling, at all-time. The acting laurels go to Morgan Woodward, veteran Western film character actor, for maintaining his scenario established character throughout, despite tepid direction, and also erratic editing that prevents formation of a much needed sense of reality. Director of photography Jack Richards earns a viewer'southward approval, in this poorly staged thing, by some creative camera-work. The film is not bachelor in DVD format, while a hard-to-find Genesis VHS release displays upon its box completely absurd photographic encompass fine art: a snarling evildoer has a stranglehold upon a woman's neck with one hand while pointing a revolver to her skull with the other. Neither of these models appears in the moving picture; nor does the convertible auto that the woman is ostensibly driving; but, after all, a good deal of the entire production makes little sense at all.
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Ride In A Pink Car sadly, stalls out when it should be putting pedal to the metal.
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Gid Barker (Corbett) returns domicile to the pocket-sized boondocks of Benton, Florida after some years away in 'Nam. Equally information technology turns out, the townsfolk don't receive him warmly and are all antagonistic towards him. During one of his conflicts with the locals, Gid ends upwards accidentally killing one of the good ol' boys. That'southward more than enough for the boondocks to want to lynch him, then he steals the titular "pink auto" and goes on the run with his buddy Rainy (Benet), who is too a pariah because he's a Native American Indian. So so there are a bunch of chases and weak confrontations until the final outcome. What will information technology be? Find out today? Ride In A Pink car is non the best case of the "guy comes home from Vietnam and faces hostility" movie that seemed to bubble upward in the 1970'southward. The No Mercy Human being (1973) is a far better film, and, even trumping that fine work is the modern-day masterpiece Rolling Thunder (1977). First Blood (1982) perfected the formula by the early lxxx's. Unfortunately 'pinkish car is a casualty along the road getting at that place. We desperately wanted to like the movie, just information technology'due south very ho-hum, dramatic in the wrong places, and in that location's a severe famine of action. Perhaps that's unfair if this wasn't meant to be an out-and-out action movie, simply we're just thrown into the middle of the plot right from the become-go and it'southward hard to shake off the feelings of defoliation and uncaring. Though, to exist fair, the audio and video quality of the VHS release are admittedly horrid. Given a cleaned-upward DVD treatment, the flick might deserve a reassessment.
The moving-picture show is also clearly influenced by the then-current hit Billy Jack (1971) - imagine a regional version. There are some car chases (of the "fruit-cart" style, naturally) and peradventure a few mild blow-ups, just the movie needed at least one sort-of-known name. Jimmy Dean, Bo Hopkins, Bo Svenson, Bo....Jackson, somebody! But the music, past Vic Caesar, is enjoyable, and lines of dialogue such as "smells similar rancid perfume gone apartment", in reference to the local booze, keep the movie from being a total waste, but but barely. The above line was said past Pinky, a man who dresses all in pinkish, and from whom Gid gets the classic Pinkish Car. It does seem somewhat effeminate in these mail-Full general Lee times we're living in, still.
Simply strange-looking people, characters continually drenched in their ain sweat, and a Sheriff who wears a bolo tie with his Sheriff's outfit don't relieve the pic. Information technology'due south too staid. The character of Gid needed more than rage. Ironically, the plot has no drive. As stated earlier, our willingness to like this movie was disappointed at every turn. Shot in Rubonia, Florida, Ride In A Pinkish Car (the cover models on the VHS box were created and have nothing whatsoever to do with the movie), sadly, stalls out when it should exist putting pedal to the metal.
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Unworthy improver to the Vietnam vet sub-genre of thrillers
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RIDE IN A Pinkish Motorcar is one in a sub-genre of films exploring the plight of Vietnam veterans returning home and trying to re-integrate into a cold society that doesn't actually desire them. This film goes for a depression budget criminal offense thriller bending merely the story is as well devoid of originality to really work, merely the main problem is that other, similar films like ROLLING THUNDER and FIRST BLOOD are real classics and this just doesn't come close.
It actually begins much like FIRST Claret, with ex-soldier Glenn Corbett returning home to find that he isn't really wanted. Criminal gangs accept taken over his town and his wife has married his brother, leading to much awkwardness. What follows is highly dated and seems to deliberately reference Baton JACK at times although it isn't every bit good as that flick either. There'due south some occasional adept music, some nifty low-hire activeness in the grade of car chases and the like, just generally a try-hard-but-fails feel.
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