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...particular American crossroads. The set: a cement driveway, four pumps (ethyl, regular and lead-free), two tiled bathrooms, two mechanics' bays and a battery of U-Haul trailers for rent. Most of the cast had never heard of Evanston, much less the A & A, until they found themselves waylaid outside town by a steaming radiator, broken drive shaft, clogged fuel pump or flat tire, and brought here. Usually they are towed in by Jon Lunsford, 40, soft-spoken Mormon and "the Boss," or by his ace mechanic, Cliff Cole, 36, a chain-smoking drinker-turned-teetotaler, who likes...
...insurance empire through which his new friend Gennaro sluices his racketeer's profits. Carroll's message is an old one: with such mortally dangerous friends, one needs no enemies. Time and again, the man who won his first fame by setting up an ambush is himself waylaid by his friends...
...European mining consortiums have extensive interests in two African countries side by side. A secret expeditionary force from one country discovers valuable ore just beyond its borders. They hire mercenaries to lead African troops in an effort to rearrange the border. A down-and-out fugitive, our hero, is waylaid in French Somaliland (he is forced to leave Greece for getting mixed up in a pornography racket) with passport problems. He meets a "businessman" and when effusively drunk he brags of a non-existent background in soldiering. Before he knows it he is recruited and clawing through the jungle with...
...when the electric pumps failed, but the oil troubles have made diesel fuel scarce too. Gas stations selling diesel fuel have to be protected by policemen from mobs of farmers who wait for days for tank trucks to arrive and then storm the pumps. Some trucks have been waylaid on back roads by farmers who drained the trucks and then paid for the fuel...
Virtually plotless, the film is a series of skits having to do with the efforts of M. Hulot and his fellow employees of the Altra auto company to get a new-model family camper from the firm's Paris plant to an auto show at Amsterdam. They are waylaid on the highways by a seemingly endless variety of motorized misfortunes, ranging from an elementary flat tire to an epic collision. Oddly, most of the movie is so slow that it seems to have been enacted under water. Watching Hulot (Tati) trying to make his way through mazes of automobiles...