Bonus episode of Wake Up Heavy!
Want to hear how crazy I can be about movies? Good news. I talked so much on Wake Up Heavy! — some would say too much — that I ended up going off about my latest obsessions. Pigs! Evel Knievel and Viva Knievel! Night Killer! The Child! John Saxon! Cameron Mitchell! Murder, She Wrote! Movies made in Pittsburgh! My love […]
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976)
Candy Morgan (Claudia Jennings, Playboy Playmate of the Month for November 1969 and Playmate of the Year for 1970 and quite literally the queen of movies just like this) busts out of prison and goes right back to robbing banks with sticks of lit dynamite. She inspries Ellie-Jo Turner (Jocelyn Jones, Tourist Trap), a bank teller who […]
White Lightning (1973)
Burt Reynolds said that White Lightning was “the beginning of a whole series of films made in the South, about the South and for the South. No one cares if the picture was ever distributed north of the Mason-Dixon line because you could make back the cost of the negative just in Memphis alone. Anything outside of […]
Pigs (1973)
Marc Lawrence had a career filled with playing the heavies, mostly gangland types. In fact, his autobiography was entitled Long Time No See: Confessions of a Hollywood Gangster. Lawrence found himself under scrutiny for his political leanings. He was the son of Polish and Russian parents and was married to Odessa-born novelist and screenwriter Fanya […]
Three movies in one! Smokey Bites the Dust (1981) Grand Theft Auto (1977) Eat My Dust (1976)
“Shoot, why didn’t they just pud it all in one gosh dang movin’ pickture called ‘Bite My Grand Theft Auto Dust, Smokey’?”— Cletus “Shoot, Hoke. I thought you said this were’s a sequel to Smokey and the Bandit,” says Cletus with a baseball cap smack to the head of Hoke. “There ain’t no Burt Reynolds […]
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Director Hal Needham was going to make a low budget movie with a million dollar budget and Jerry Reed as the Bandit, but his friend Burt Reynolds looked over his first draft of the script, scribbled on yellow legal pads, and declared it one of the worst he’d ever read. Yet there was something there […]
The Girls from Thunder Strip (1966)
David Hewitt started his career as an illusionist for a traveling spook show called Dr. Jekyll’s Strange Show before Forrest J. Ackerman helped him get into movies by having his script Journey Into the Unknown made into The Time Travellers. His directing debut was 1965’s Monsters Crash the Pajama Party, a movie in which actors ran into the audience […]
Rolling Vengeance (1987)
The first time I saw the trailer for this movie, I knew that it was exactly the kind of movie that i was looking for. I strongly believe that most movies would be better if they had a sax-driven montage where monster truck death machines were assembled. It was directed by Steven Hilliard Stern, who […]
Moonfire (1970)
Michael Parkhurst directed exactly one movie, this 1970 effort about truckers battling Nazis in Mexico to rescue a pilot. There’s also a millionaire gone missing, a fortune hidden inside a haul of lettuce and a lost space capsule. Yes, really. Parkhurst also appeared in the 1992 film Hot Under the Collar. Everything else on his IMDB […]
Blood Salvage (1989)
So, what’s up next for Redneck Week? Something from the “Bs” . . . let’s see . . . Blood Beach, Blood Cult, Blood Diner . . . Blood Frenzy, Blood Link, Blood Rage, Blood Relations . . . Blood Salvage . . . Blood Sisters, Blood Tide. . . . Oh, wait! That’ll work: […]
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