Saturday, April 19, 2014

Trackdown (1976)


United Artists
Directed by Richard T. Heffron
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Shout! Factory)

Montana rancher Jim Mitchum goes to Hollywood to search for his runaway 17-year-old sister. His no-nonsense, tough attitude eventually leads him to the man who bought her for his high-priced call girl business. After she ends up dead at the hands of a rough john, Mitchum vows revenge. There are two memorable action sequences: a shoot out in an elevator shaft between two moving elevators, and the finale on a desert highway. Mitchum, though, is too stiff, he practically recites his lines, and his character barely more than a stereotype. Supporting work from all-too-familiar TV faces Erik Estrada and Cathy Lee Crosby also drag it down. 1979's Hardcore explored a very similar scenario, but Jim Mitchum is no George C. Scott.

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