Character study of rowdy blue collar Texas good ol' boys Floyd (a lively performance by Lou Perryman) and Jimmie Lee (robustly played with rascally charm to spare by Sonny Carl Davis), who are a couple of ne'er-do-wells who can't seem to hold a job or stay out of trouble.
Writer/director Eagle Pennell draws the colorful and engagingly scruffy characters who are doomed to mediocrity due to their hopelessly immature and incorrigible natures with great warmth and humor. Moreover, Pennell vividly pegs the smoky haze of seedy bars as well as the underlying despair and raggedy desperation of thankless lower middle-class existence. Rough around the edges (for example, the acting is pretty embarrassingly histrionic at times), but still likable and enjoyable, this short possesses the same resigned humanity and distinctly tangy Texas regional flavor that later distinguished Pennell's subsequent films "The Whole Shootin' Match" and "Last Night at the Alamo."
Writer/director Eagle Pennell draws the colorful and engagingly scruffy characters who are doomed to mediocrity due to their hopelessly immature and incorrigible natures with great warmth and humor. Moreover, Pennell vividly pegs the smoky haze of seedy bars as well as the underlying despair and raggedy desperation of thankless lower middle-class existence. Rough around the edges (for example, the acting is pretty embarrassingly histrionic at times), but still likable and enjoyable, this short possesses the same resigned humanity and distinctly tangy Texas regional flavor that later distinguished Pennell's subsequent films "The Whole Shootin' Match" and "Last Night at the Alamo."
