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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...
...petty frustrations and human fallibility into the well-oiled machinery of the thriller. Nonviolent, Runyonesque crooks could become the victims, and everyday life the culprit. Getaway cars could stall, crucial phone numbers could slip the mind, a paralyzing snowstorm could fall on the day of a planned bank heist...
...answer keys were being marketed by student peddlers. Detectives eventually traced the purloined papers to Brooklyn's Solomon Schechter High School, where the seals on answers stored in the principal's office were found to have been tampered with. The D.A.'s office said that the heist had been committed by two college boys and two Solomon Schechter seniors who, said school officials, were among "the brightest students in the school...
...star is Clint Eastwood, and this looks, at first glance, like his usual action feature. He plays a professional heist artist nicknamed Thunderbolt, who is hiding out after a big job and falls in with a fast-talking kid (Jeff Bridges). They bump around Montana, pursued by two of Eastwood's cronies (George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis) who had a hand in the Montana Armored robbery a couple years back and are looking for their share of the take. The take, however, has vanished, along with the one-room pioneer schoolhouse in which it was stashed...
...details too often come embedded in crude ironies: The Gangbusters radio show on the sound track while the gang sits in front of a bank planning a heist, the repeated close-ups of a quilt where the lovers first make love and on which the dead Bowie is finally carried out. Most objectionable is the embarrassing instance when a radio production of Romeo and Juliet is played during Bowie and Keetchie's first rendezvous and each of the three times they make love the voice of the narrator illogically returns with the same "Thus did Romeo and Juliet consummate their...