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Robert Bean, Georgianna Carter, Jack Nicholson

When an immoral hot-rodder, Johnny Varron (Jack Nicholson), is embittered by his friend Dave's (Robert Bean) betrayal of their wild and reckless life, he kidnaps Dave's girlfriend Nancy (Georgianne Ca... read more read more...rter) and takes her on a dangerous, high-speed romp while attempting to evade capture by the local cops. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi

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PG, 1 hr. 26 min.

Directed by: Harvey Berman

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DVD Release Date: February 22, 2005

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  • November 21, 2010
    Nicholson gives a good early performance, which is the only reason to watch this movie, really. The film is horribly re-edited on DVD today, which makes it worse. I wouldn't recommend this movie.
  • March 27, 2008
    The best thing about this silly low-budget tale is that it stars Jack Nicholson giving a performance that would be seen greatly improved later on in his career with his Oscar winning role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
  • April 12, 2010
    It seems like no one else has actually rated this movie for some reason, am I the only one who's seen it? I saw the horrible new version of it, though, where they added some new footage which puts the actual movie as a flashback of someone today, so there's this group of annoyin... read moregly cheesy 90s teens that he tells his tale to. The movie itself wasn't that great, but Nicholson is good of course.
  • June 5, 2009
    Early Jack Nicholson as a hip streetwise thug throwing around a ton of early 60's era slang, an absolute pleasure to watch.
  • February 8, 2009
    Nicholson shows off his young acting skills in this Amercana piece. He plays a young bad-ass type and doesnt let peer pressure get ot him. Well shot for it's time

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