" Robert Redford by Orlando Globey via The Selvedge Yard It's well documented that Paul Newman & Steve McQueen were racers to their bones. These guys knew how to operate machines of four wheels and two as well as they knew "
Robert Redford: Little Fauss and Big Halsy
more love for the Redford bike romp
It’s one of the weirder films Robert Redford ever made.
But featuring, along with old Goldie Locks, characterful squirt Michael J Pollard and the beautiful, beguiling gat-toothed siren Lauren Hutton, it’s worth a look.
The plot is all over the place, the characters are to a man down-at-heel losers, but motorcycles and the love of dust and racing runs through it like lube – making the less-than-epic film making seem more-than-bearable.
Apparently Redford thought it was the best script he’d ever read – but it bombed nonetheless when it hit the screens in 1970. Execution was, perhaps, hampered by the strange summer in which it was produced – yes folks, Southern California in the summer of 1969 was indeed a twisted season.
God knows what casualties that dangerous summer turned up on set.
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