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When the bad guys show up, things really fly to pieces. A grubby band of desperadoes led by Bruce Dern (in a splendidly bravura performance) want in on the drive and the profits. Duke shoos them off, but they skulk along behind the cows, waiting to make a move. When they do, Dern and Duke mix it up, and Dern finally gets the best of it. Aided by Nightlinger (Roscoe Lee Browne), the kids vow vengeance...
Nicholson manages a few nice touches. A scene of attempted rape late in the film conveys just the right feeling of psychotic tension. There is also a funny, if by now familiar, freak-out at the draft board and a shrewd performance by Bruce Dern as the basketball coach. Nicholson is not so fortunate with the other actors. Michael Margotta is scruffy and strident as the radical, William Tepper adenoidal in the role of the basketball player. Karen Black, playing the faculty wife, offers only a dreary variation on her basic Five Easy Pieces performance. It should be pointed...
Beastly is the word for the people in this picture. Out beyond Palm Springs, six of the sicklers solo off and chainwhip a couple of stompers from another hogpen. In the peel-off, Loser (Bruce Dern) puts the burn on a police bike, catches a slug in the back, lands on the critical list. H.B. and his buddies bust him out of the hospital, but back at the clubhouse Loser dies of shock while puffing pot. As the fuzz move in, the choppers move out for Loser's funeral in a chapel draped with Nazi banners. The-rite soon...
...liquor and then jammed the air waves confessing. "Dang me, they ought to take a rope and hang me," he keeps singing. Nobody is arguing with him, but so far the only action against him has been taken by Ruby Wright, who sings an answer to Dang Me called Dern Ya. In the meanwhile Miller has gone on writing songs like those that fill this album, e.g., Squares Make the World Go Round...
...uncle, the late George Dern, was elected governor of Utah in 1924, later became Franklin Roosevelt's first Secretary of War. In the gubernatorial campaign, Dern beat his Republican opponent, Governor Charles Mabey, with a well-remembered slogan: "What the State of Utah needs is a Dern good governor, and I don't mean Mabey...