This film is cheesy from the start, and I don't think the writers were going for anything but
However the second half goes from slightly amusing over-the-top action film with comic elements to a complete disaster as the plot is lost and it becomes a series of just unnecessary explosions and chases. It deals with two young girls, sisters whose bootlegger father was killed in a car accident after being chased by the law who had tried to arrest him. They seek revenge, steal motorcycles and guns, and go on a shooting and crime spree that really makes no sense. At first, the two girls, Jane Anne Johnstone and Kathy McHaley, are fairly likable and it's easy to feel sorry for them after their father is killed. However, they quickly become stereotypical bratty rebels without causes, doing these things simply because they're having fun and getting away with them. I've never seen two performances that started off fairly decent descend into pure drivel.
Wasted in the top-billed roles, Warren Oates plays the late father's partner who basically becomes their surrogate pop, and Christopher George is the sheriff who chases the real daddy to his death. That chase sequence is quite stunning to watch, and probably the highlight of the film, but after a few amusing Momence, that all stops and what was acceptable mediocrity before becomes a piece of Southern trash that just fills the film with unpleasant stereotypes. Of course the music score is mostly bluegrass, pleasant to listen to but overplayed after a while, and the other supporting characters are totally cliched archetypes of what Hollywood thinks Southerners all are. The film just gets more ridiculous as it goes on, and the ending is absolutely absurd. This is the type of film that most likely spend most of its time in a drive-in where the audience wasn't really paying attention to detail. They got what they paid for.
Wasted in the top-billed roles, Warren Oates plays the late father's partner who basically becomes their surrogate pop, and Christopher George is the sheriff who chases the real daddy to his death. That chase sequence is quite stunning to watch, and probably the highlight of the film, but after a few amusing Momence, that all stops and what was acceptable mediocrity before becomes a piece of Southern trash that just fills the film with unpleasant stereotypes. Of course the music score is mostly bluegrass, pleasant to listen to but overplayed after a while, and the other supporting characters are totally cliched archetypes of what Hollywood thinks Southerners all are. The film just gets more ridiculous as it goes on, and the ending is absolutely absurd. This is the type of film that most likely spend most of its time in a drive-in where the audience wasn't really paying attention to detail. They got what they paid for.