Word: drivered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only the lights of his combines, as one by one they disappear over a hill. "Follow that star," drawls Jessie over the radio. The combines, like tanks on night maneuvers, head west, following Venus, which is low and bright in the sky. "We've got it!" Gary Coleman, driver of the lead combine yells back. He slows his machine, turns and lowers the cutting head into a rich wave of uncut field...
...From the driver's seat in the air-conditioned cabin, there is no tranquillity about a 19,000-lb., 150-h.p. John Deere 7700 combine, even run at half throttle. The engines hiss and suck. The cutting blades click like a madwoman's knitting needles. In this age, when transistors perform wondrous deeds with assistance from only a few volts of electricity, the combine, despite its air conditioner, turbo engine and two-way radio, is a functioning monument to 19th century mechanical ingenuity. It is a jumble of rubber belts propelling multisized wheels that turn gears, pull pulleys...
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...driver (Ryan O'Neal) is the man behind the wheel of the getaway car, waiting for the robbers to come pelting out of the bank with their loot. The cop (Bruce Bern) has a never-explained obsession with putting this particular wheelman behind bars. This leads to the burning of much tire rubber, the crunching of much metal, but not much psychological or sociological edification. And not much emotional involvement in the proceedings, since neither man is ever shown to be anything but a grim-faced psychopath, hiding under the fashionable guise of being a "professional...
...when both have too long inhabited the demimonde. But in the earlier movie, the Depression offered some explanation for Branson's hardness. Here we haven't the faintest idea what motivates these two men in modern-day America. Given O'Neal's skill as a driver, the thought keeps occurring that he could be doing just as well, with a lot less hassle, on the stock-car circuit. And Dern's cynicism easily qualifies him for a job behind a big desk at an entertainment conglomerate...