Sunday, May 19, 2013

J.C. (1972)

Avco Embassy Pictures
Directed by William F. McGaha
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
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JC is the leader of a harmless motorcycle gang in Georgia. He decides to take the gang to his old home town in northern Alabama and visit his sister, where they encounter redneck racists led by sheriff Slim Pickens. A black member of the gang is arrested for smoking pot, beat up by the police and locked in jail. JC leads the gang into town to get him out, resulting in violence and many deaths. Other than some obnoxious Christian rock songs on the soundtrack, the Christian symbolism is not all that obvious. JC has visions of a "winking eye in the sky" that tells him what to do, and there is some talk about his evangelical father, but JC is no saint: revenge drives him to murder. It is technically inept, with more boom microphone sightings than any film I can remember.

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