By Robert Emslie
The seventies were the apex of not just Hollywood at its best – bringing us everything from The Godfather, to Star Wars – but also for budget on a string cheesy grind house movies aimed at Drive-ins where not everybody paid attention to what was on the screen. So too was it a golden age for a sub-genre of grind house fare, the car movie. From Vanishing Point, to Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry, all the way to Spielberg’s Sugarland Express, the chase and crash filled car-sploitation genre was in high gear until it was killed in 1978 by Corvette Summer.
This trailer is for one of those wonderful/terrible movies, originally titled High Rolling, but later appended to High Rolling in a Hot Corvette. It’s a flick that I’ve been trying to find for one of our Saturday matinees. So far I’ve been unsuccessful so you’ll just have to quench your thirst for ’70s shenanigans with the preview, which is pretty epic on its own. Staring Joseph Bottoms (and we’ll see more from him in this Saturday’s matinee) it’s everything that was awesome about Hollywood hillbillying back in the seventies. In fact, I’d go as far as saying it’s better than a ride downtown on a Saturday night with your best girl.
Check it out after the jump.
[youtube width=”720″ height=”504″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm5QkoxmgAU[/youtube]
Source: YouTube
Jeff Glucker
'Corvette Summer'? Looks more like an early 'Bareback Mountain'
'Bareback Mountain' isn't something I dare to run through GIS.
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Golly. That appears to have more Bromance in it than "The Best Bar In America". And just about as much Corvette. Looks like for half the movie they're on foot, and the other half they're kicking each others asses.
Is a Bromantic Comedy called a BromCom?
and one of my all time fav "The Van ..circa 1977
. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvHYOCyIqBg