Little shown movie I suppose deserves a look but don't get your hopes up thinking you're going to be discovering some long lost gem.
Robert Duvall & Joe Don Baker basically spend the movie robbing various members of an organized crime group, i.e. The Outfit.
It's a little unbelievable because every heist they get involved in they pull off with the greatest of ease and apparent lack of planning (it's certainly not shown) yet when watching the crime sprees go down I began to scratch my head and think now where did THAT disguise come from & how did they know THAT, and how did they get into THAT building so easily etc. Since the movie never really goes into the planning beforehand your're sort of left to believe that these guys are masterminds who go from one heist to another with out a care in the world.
And when they do run into some trouble, they very quickly dispatch a few bullets and wham they're on their way again.
As for the women characters in this movie...forget it. I don't know why they even bothered to include any actresses at all, cuz their parts are minimal at best and totally one dimensional.
Karen Black barely has any lines though she's in the majority of the movie. She's Duvall's girlfriend but basically sits in the back of the getaway car and pouts and this after her big roles in Easy Rider, Five East Pieces and Portnoy's Complaint so why she chose to take this role is beyond me.
Sheree North has one scene playing some redneck's wife, though she looks straight out of a Hollywood hotel pool setting. When she comes onto Joe Don Baker & he refuses she quickly gets dressed and tells her redneck husband that Baker tried to rape her. No I'm not kidding.
Joanna Cassidy in an early role, plays tough guy Robert Ryan's(in one of his last film appearances) nubile young wife. Though she too has about two lines in the film, one of them being: 'Did you have to kill him?'
Jazz legend Anita O'Day is listed in the credits as herself though why they even bothered I'll never know. Basically she's singing in a bar scene yet you never even get a good close-up of her or anything. She's presented as just some lounge singer in the background, though an incredibly talented lounge singer. I guess Miss O'Day was a friend of someone associated with the film & as a lark was put in the film. Who knows!
Duvall & Baker are good but the roles don't really require them to do much so all in all, it's a mindless piece of early 70s cinema.
Probably the best scene for the actresses is given to Jane Greer, former '40s film noir star. In it she plays a grieving mother refusing money from Robert Duvall's character. Though even here, she's not given much screen time.
You'd be better served to watch it for half an hour or so just to get the early 70s period feel and then turn it off because there really isn't much plot development or any big payoff ending.
Now if you want to watch a really fun guns-n-car chase movie from the same time period, check out the previous year's The Getaway starring Steve McQueen & Ali MacGraw. You'll get your money's worth of action in this flick!
Robert Duvall & Joe Don Baker basically spend the movie robbing various members of an organized crime group, i.e. The Outfit.
It's a little unbelievable because every heist they get involved in they pull off with the greatest of ease and apparent lack of planning (it's certainly not shown) yet when watching the crime sprees go down I began to scratch my head and think now where did THAT disguise come from & how did they know THAT, and how did they get into THAT building so easily etc. Since the movie never really goes into the planning beforehand your're sort of left to believe that these guys are masterminds who go from one heist to another with out a care in the world.
And when they do run into some trouble, they very quickly dispatch a few bullets and wham they're on their way again.
As for the women characters in this movie...forget it. I don't know why they even bothered to include any actresses at all, cuz their parts are minimal at best and totally one dimensional.
Karen Black barely has any lines though she's in the majority of the movie. She's Duvall's girlfriend but basically sits in the back of the getaway car and pouts and this after her big roles in Easy Rider, Five East Pieces and Portnoy's Complaint so why she chose to take this role is beyond me.
Sheree North has one scene playing some redneck's wife, though she looks straight out of a Hollywood hotel pool setting. When she comes onto Joe Don Baker & he refuses she quickly gets dressed and tells her redneck husband that Baker tried to rape her. No I'm not kidding.
Joanna Cassidy in an early role, plays tough guy Robert Ryan's(in one of his last film appearances) nubile young wife. Though she too has about two lines in the film, one of them being: 'Did you have to kill him?'
Jazz legend Anita O'Day is listed in the credits as herself though why they even bothered I'll never know. Basically she's singing in a bar scene yet you never even get a good close-up of her or anything. She's presented as just some lounge singer in the background, though an incredibly talented lounge singer. I guess Miss O'Day was a friend of someone associated with the film & as a lark was put in the film. Who knows!
Duvall & Baker are good but the roles don't really require them to do much so all in all, it's a mindless piece of early 70s cinema.
Probably the best scene for the actresses is given to Jane Greer, former '40s film noir star. In it she plays a grieving mother refusing money from Robert Duvall's character. Though even here, she's not given much screen time.
You'd be better served to watch it for half an hour or so just to get the early 70s period feel and then turn it off because there really isn't much plot development or any big payoff ending.
Now if you want to watch a really fun guns-n-car chase movie from the same time period, check out the previous year's The Getaway starring Steve McQueen & Ali MacGraw. You'll get your money's worth of action in this flick!