SummaryLarry Rayder is an aspiring NASCAR driver, Deke Sommers is mechanic. As they feel they collectively are the best, the only thing that is holding them back is money to build the best vehicle possible. As such, they decide to rob a supermarket's office of the money in its safe to pursue their dream. On the most part, their robbery is successful, al... Read More
Directed By:John Hough
Written By:Leigh Chapman, Antonio Santean, Richard Unekis, James H. Nicholson
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
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52
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Director John Hough packs the film with stunning car stunts filmed in California backwaters. Though he sacrifices meaning for trashy thrills at every opportunity—and winds it all down with a brain-damaged variation on the end of Easy Rider—the way Fonda slowly loses his initially unflappable cool throughout the film makes it worth a look.
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Dirty Mary Crazy Larry is the rare exploitation film whose few redeeming qualities make up for its numerous shortcomings.
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Dirty Mary Crazy Larry is a classic heist chase picture driven by a somewhat dated premise and paper-thin characters. But the film makes up for its faults with dazzling stunt work and great action.
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With more than a third of the footage devoted to spectacular chases and collisions deftly staged by stunt coordinator Al Wyatt, there’s little time left to hint at the reasons for Fonda’s increasingly unappetizing monomania.
50
The script, about small-timers who wished they were bigger, is soon totally undermined by Fonda's most complacent performance to date and Susan George's sub-Goldie Hawn antics. By way of compensation, the locations are quite pretty and the car stunts are handled with a certain verve.
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Dirty Mary Crazy Larry is as aimless as its dimly seen characters, who talk a lot of dreadful, cute-tough dialogue but are never recognizable except as the actors who play them. Even that factor isn't much help in enjoying the film.
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There is practically no plot, and even less character development, but the script is based on a novel, most likely a thin one.
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Jan 10, 2020
6
Some good camera work, some decent photography, one thing I don't understand is that they never had a destination. A much better Peter Fonda movie from this era was Run With The Devil, about a satanic cult. A much better Susan George movie was Straw Dogs by Sam Peckinpah. Vic Morrow spends most of this movie in a helicopter, which is weird because when he was making The Twilight Zone (1983), he was decapitated by a helicopter along with 2 Vietnamese kids ( real corpse photos are online).
