Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordination of eleven priestesses will require only a modest change in our liturgy: Glory be to the Father, Son, Holy Ghost, Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Bella Abzug...
Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda) may be "the last hope for law-and-order in the West," but he is sick of the responsibility, not to mention the danger that goes with it. Take this fast-draw kid (Terence Hill) who insists his name really is Nobody, but who may want to become Somebody by outdrawing Jack. Who needs him, especially when there is a boat leaving New Orleans for Europe in a couple of weeks? There only a heart attack can cause a man to drop dead in the middle of a street...
...Fonda may now have to don steel-rimmed glasses before he can draw a bead on his targets, but he is still a great American presence, an icon to be reckoned with. The blond, blue-eyed Hill blends the spirit of a devilish boy with an adult's competence in the hard moments of a hard trade. You half expect him to pull a toad out of his holster, and you never quite believe that he can draw thrice in the time it takes ordinary men to draw once. And you shouldn't. For this...
Greetings to Peter Fonda, the old Easy Rider himself, who has slipped back into the driver's seat. This time around, he has four wheels instead of two and plays a heist artist with racing ambitions instead of a romantic outlaw biker. Fonda has dreams of glory on the fast track. To get himself a stake in the big time, he knocks over a large super market in a small California town...
...Fonda cackles maniacally behind the wheel and seems to be enjoying himself. Director John Hough (who engineered a good little thriller last year called The Legend of Hell House) does not pay much attention to any of the obvious weaknesses of this rough road genre. What he depends on instead is its undeniable careless charm...