What a great movie this is. It's low key through-out, but a terrific look back at the very early 70s in the California music business. Many 70s icons are here, you even see a lava lamp on a guy's desk!
In how many movies do you see Kris do the following... almost get busted by the cops for selling 10 kilos of primo killer weed to Woodstock icon Wavy Gravy, drag a drugged-up Harry Dean Stanton around who has been up for days and is impotent, receive oral favors from underground film star Viva, get naked with a 1960s porn star with the hysterical name of Joy Bang, eat a diner meal with a pimped-up Antonio Vargas and share a topless nude scene with Karen Black? It's all here, man! Add in Gene Hackman lurking around as a crooked narc and 100 keys of weed to sell in a weekend for no less than $10,000 and you have the making for an off-beat classic that hardly anyone knows about.
It has the low-budget look of a movie like "Billy Jack" and, at the very beginning, during the opening credits, will remind you of a TV movie. But this was no TV movie! As much drugs as a Cheech & Chong movie and a decent soundtrack if you like early Kristofferson. As a sidenote, in a flashback we see Kris and Harry Dean Stanton onstage at a concert that MUST have been filmed live and spliced into this movie. It ties in the claim that they both used to play together.
I am trying to think of what might make a good double-feature with this. Perhaps "Billy Jack", the first one. Just to get a bigger picture of early 70s small budget "indy" type movies. They both have a sort of outlaw storyline anyway.
If you can find it, get it. If it comes on TV, tape it. You won't regret it.
In how many movies do you see Kris do the following... almost get busted by the cops for selling 10 kilos of primo killer weed to Woodstock icon Wavy Gravy, drag a drugged-up Harry Dean Stanton around who has been up for days and is impotent, receive oral favors from underground film star Viva, get naked with a 1960s porn star with the hysterical name of Joy Bang, eat a diner meal with a pimped-up Antonio Vargas and share a topless nude scene with Karen Black? It's all here, man! Add in Gene Hackman lurking around as a crooked narc and 100 keys of weed to sell in a weekend for no less than $10,000 and you have the making for an off-beat classic that hardly anyone knows about.
It has the low-budget look of a movie like "Billy Jack" and, at the very beginning, during the opening credits, will remind you of a TV movie. But this was no TV movie! As much drugs as a Cheech & Chong movie and a decent soundtrack if you like early Kristofferson. As a sidenote, in a flashback we see Kris and Harry Dean Stanton onstage at a concert that MUST have been filmed live and spliced into this movie. It ties in the claim that they both used to play together.
I am trying to think of what might make a good double-feature with this. Perhaps "Billy Jack", the first one. Just to get a bigger picture of early 70s small budget "indy" type movies. They both have a sort of outlaw storyline anyway.
If you can find it, get it. If it comes on TV, tape it. You won't regret it.