Today's entry is about the latest film both my awesome wife & I watched last night. To start the movie review I will quote a great master of arts, Mr. William Shakespeare and his "Much ado About nothing" universally known quote, because the film Polk County Pot Plane/In Hot Pursuit, delivers plenty of action packed car chase scenes, some shooting and then some more chases down the road, something a Fast an Furious asshole fan would probably consider a masterpiece next to the many talented writings from Mr. Shakespeare, but hey! I'm here to warn from the perils of watching B movies randomly as I did last night.
The promising opening sequence.
a Humble RV serving evil pot doers.
This is it you junkies!
Some people wonder why these kinds of films were made with such a low budget, I tell them there's a movie for every enthusiast around the globe and probably this is a film recommended for car chase fans only because that's all you will ever find here.
1977 was still a wonderful year for the movie industry, thousands of exploitation flicks were being produced at that time and drive-ins were still the go to place for those who wanted some loving if you know what I mean. So, what we have here is a movie meant to be watched sitting in your car doing whatever you want to do but watching a dense plot film.
Two rednecks/white trash hillbillies are on their way to meet the "pot plane" an airplane that delivers nothing but pot sacks. Once the deal is finished our heroes return home in their RV, but unfortunately they are caught redhanded by the cops so here's where we see car chase n°1 with the result of having these buddies (named Oosh & Doosh) behind bars for good.
My kind of secretary.
No stunt men, real actors.
Headshot with no holes, a professional's work.
The Grandfather's B version.
As soon as these guys are behind bars, they get their call and Oosh's girlfriend calls the big boss for help, so our pals are once again free to roam the streets, or more precisely free to roam the highways for drugsmuggling again.
After that the movie becomes a bore, because it's all about repetition, some more car chases, this time on an 18 wheeler, and the chase lasts too long for my taste.
There's some kind of sub plot if it can be called like that, which is about how the drug smugglers relate to their big boss and to the pot plane crew, which come with this funny & epic quote "I fly the pot plane"
It's interesting to say that this movie is actually based on a real story that happened years ago in rural Polk County, Georgia. It is said Some long-forgotten state legislator thought it was intriguing enough to have a movie made about it (it wasn't). So he got some minimal financing and hired a cast and crew which apparently was mostly amateurs and made this great embarrassment of an action film.
Action Scene.
18 Wheeler on its way.
Stupid Cops.
Nope! no exploitation kids.
"I fly the potplane" Epic.
As usual here's the movie trailer:
I'll be seeing you around some time soon for greater movies I hope.
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