Posted on 08/27/2011 9:19:25 PM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
Does anybody remember a teen movie from the early 70s about two kids hitching up, one involved in a robbery with a gun, a car and maybe Steve Miller music (like Take The Money And Run or The Joker). It was a B or C movie and looked colorful (Hawaii or California). It might have also had the word Rose in it. If anybody can remember that far back and remember the movie title -- you are truly amazing!
How about the Doberman Gang?
who was in it?
“Over the Edge” 1979:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ereen__ld8g
“New Grenada is a planned community set in the desert where there is nothing for the kids to do, save for a rec center - which closes at 6 PM. The parents, in their zeal to attract industry to their town, have all but neglected their children. As a result, the kids begin to create their own entertainment, which involves vandalism, theft, and general hooliganism. During an incident when one of the kids brandishes an unloaded gun at town cop Ed Doberman, he is shot and killed. When the parents gather the next night to discuss the killing and the level of lawlessness among the youth, they soon find out that their kids have had all they can take.”
In which we first meet Matt Dillon and Vince Spano.
That’s it, Wow! Thank you.
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.
The only thing in the flick that affected me was when that beautiful Charger got smashed.
Didn’t much care what happened to either of them.
Got all 3 of ‘em.
What a surprise, eh?
:)
Oh, geez, I remember those. Actually, Pump Up the Volume is where I first heard Leonard Cohen, so it’s of value to me.
Let’s not forget 1980’s cult classic “Times Square”.
Two runaway thirteen year-old girls from opposite sides of the tracks escape from a psychiatric treatment center and set up in the seedy demimonde of pre-Giuliani NYC. A DJ gives them an outlet to make music and start a subversive riot-grrl-style underground teen movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YzK4X8OAgU&feature=related
The double-album “Times Square” soundtrack has got to be one for the ages. I wore out two copies. The musical lineup was a slice of history, rock-n-roll tour de force. All the cutting-edge artistes (New Wave, Punk,etc.) were well represented.
Now, I’m not one of the ones who are going to wax sentimental about bad old Times Square—having seen it for myself in all it’s ugliness—or speculate about the toned-down lesbian subtext in the movie, but I do know I got a blast out of it, and the still-young Tim Curry was hot as hell as the rebel DJ.
I’m afraid to ever watch Fight Club again, because I loved it so much the first time, I’m sure I’ll be let down and think “I liked this??”
They should have dusted off the song for the Russian gangster movie “Eastern Promises” 2007.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765443/
It was the mandolin that did it for me.
Give me a good Arch Hall Jr. movie,,,, and I’m happy.. Hot rods and Fenders,,, YEAH!
What interested me about the movie is that it was filmed close to where I live. I used to drive through those Walnut groves with my friends when I was in HS. The groves are all gone now, or at least most of them are, when the old trees quit bearing the farmers cut down the trees and sold them for fire wood and never replanted.
Those movies got nothin’ on any movie with “One Tin Soldier” in the soundtrack.
Vaguely I do remember that movie, but I never reaized it had Tim Curry in it.
The bad old days of NYC,I was there, fun to remember, but hopefully never to return.
I was working in a record store in the early 80’s and that damned Times Square album got played so many times it took years to forget—thanks for reminding me! :(
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry was one of the most important moviegoing experiences of my young life. I am certainly not defending this as a film, merely saying we can’t choose how we will be impacted by things as kids who can’t tell outselves “Well this is junk and I can’t really be feeling something for this.”
But the ending blew my mind.
I saw this on DVD a few years back and didn’t even get to the ending, I was so bored. But it still really got to me back then.
I finally caught up with Two-Lane Blacktop on latenight TV back in the eighties and thought I’d die of boredom. But I watched the Criterion version a couple years ago and now I own it. Rudolph Wurlitzer has a weird imagination, and we need that.
Another 70’s flick that really impressed me was The Friends of Eddie Coyle. (It’s filmed in Boston, where I live now, and literally down the street from where I grew up as a kid in suburbia.)
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry is one of those flicks that when it comes on, no matter where it is in the movie, I stop and watch it to the end. Like Race With the Devil. Why does Peter Fonda always wind up dying at the end of so many of his movies? 92 in the Shade, and Easy Rider, too!
I think Pope John Paul II said that
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