Monday, August 22, 2011

Outlaw Blues (1977)


Warner Bros
Directed by Richard T. Heffron
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)

Peter Fonda plays an ex-con who aspires to be a country music star in Texas. One of his songs is stolen by a real country star in prison. When it becomes a hit, he confronts the singer and accidentally shoots him. On the run with girlfriend and backup singer Susan Saint James, they release their version which shoots to number one with the help of their outlaw promotional gimmicks. It's full of the typical chases seen in these kind of films: trucks running into fruit stands, motorcycles speeding through a wedding and the final one by speedboat. Huge crowd pleasers at the time, it all seems rather dated and predictable now.

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