we're on a mission from god

wendy so i got that going darling

looks like i picked the wrong way to

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welcome to vintage video where we're

re-watching the 80s so you don't have to

we'll be reviewing every major film

released in the 1980s in real time

overanalyzing what you've seen and

spoiling what you haven't i'm patrick

o'reilly i'm jesse bayless and i'm

richard wells and today marks the 40th

anniversary of the release of used cars

on july 11

1980. it was written by robert zemeckis

and bob gale

directed by zamekas and released by

columbia pictures

while robert zemeckis and bob gale were

working on the script for 1941 director

john milius approached them with the

story of used car salesmen

working in las vegas it was originally

written with george hamilton in mind for

the lead

universal passed on the project but

columbia had at the time frank price

had once been a used car salesman and

quickly greenlit the project

jack warden initially turned down the

project until they came back and offered

him the dual role

of both fuchs brothers the darner

chrysler plymouth dealership in mesa

arizona played the part

of roy l fuchs pre-owned automobiles it

remained open for the entire production

and kurt russell even starred in some

local commercials for the dealership

while they were making the movie

you know i think george hamilton does

remind me of a used car salesman

yes i think the the original like draft

up that they did was a picture of george

hamilton with would you buy a used car

from this man

of him like you know smiling with his

crazy tan

john candy was originally set to play

the joe flaherty role

but had to drop out which was weird

because that role didn't seem to

be particularly there's nothing there

yeah i think it would have been a bigger

role if he'd have

been in that place and and joe flaherty

is usually a little bit more

this is early for him though right yeah

it is but

uh i like that he he will make an

appearance in another's macca smoothie

that's true but uh john candy had to

drop out when the production

schedule overlapped with 1941's used

cars got a higher score from its test

screening than columbia had ever seen

for anything

and consequently its release date was

bumped way up

several months to july as a result it

went into fewer theaters

and it didn't get a full strength

advertising campaign and came out a week

after airplane which totally destroyed

it in the box office

apparently in 1984 there was a tv movie

of used cars

i had trouble confirming this because

there's no mention on the wikipedia page

for the film

but a sloppily put together imdb page

exists for one

deborah harmon and frank mcrae returned

to play the same roles for the tv movie

so maybe it's a sequel i was wondering

why there wasn't a rudy russo character

on the list but then i noticed that

there's an actor named rudy russo and i

think whoever made this page mixed up

the character and actor names

because rudy russo was listed as an

actor playing the character fred

mccarron

who was a kurt russellesque actor in the

80s

but outside the internet movie database

i could find no evidence that this tv

movie even existed

but gail and zemeckis are listed as

executive producers on the imdb page

we open the film on the windshield of an

edsel with one owner

painted across it raining back we reveal

the edsel is on the top of a steel

column over a used car lot

and we sneak up on rudy russo rolling

back the odometer on a used

car as we pass the driver's side mirror

we get a quick crew cameo he moves the

car

into the row at the lot and when he

closes the door the bumper falls off

which he reattaches with chewing gum

he throws signs on a few cars in a row

including a

like new sign that he uses to obscure a

shattered windshield

he fills the cars flat with a can of

flat fixer and

sprays new car smell into everything on

the lot

he looks across the street at roy l

fuchs auto emporium

and he says good morning in response roy

hawks of lugi accidentally hitting his

own car

and then wiping it off manuel shows up

manuel

being of course el guapo yeah from the

three amigos

and i love his like almost like

dictator-like medals

yeah he has like on his chest yeah he uh

he has a few blue cars for rudy

and rudy is able to just wipe the paint

off with a rag

and uh verifies that they are in fact

painted taxis

but he says what is this water-based

painting he says we don't get much rain

here so it's fine

yeah he's not angry at the fact that he

stole cat taxis and painted them to sell

to him

yeah he's mad that the paint he's using

is inferior yeah

it bothers me though because that's not

how water-based paint works

yeah i think it's literally watercolor

like

that's what they're implying he shares a

photo of 250 cars rotting in the desert

and he says

hey i got these for sale too if you're

interested he's like i can't tell

anything from this picture

this is not this is not how you sell

cars but yeah he's wearing

the logos from a bunch of car keychains

like their military medals over

uh his his uh left shirt pocket

rudy cuts the conversation short when he

notices a guy buying a car across the

street he decides to bait this customer

and moving through the interior of their

dealership he catches jim the mechanic

asleep with a spray paint gun and he

helpfully shuts it off

this time jeff another co-worker

advices against baiting this person

because he pulled up in a red car

and red cars are bad luck but rudy says

he needs the money

and besides you got your lucky rabbit's

foot and he said i already told you

rabbits puts no defense against a red

car

is this an established super

superstition like

i've never heard it i'm aware of the

idea that you know

people say that red cards get more

tickets or that they're more expensive

to insure and stuff like that but

i've never heard of it being bad luck

just a just a sign in general of bad

luck i haven't heard that either

i'm wondering if it's a reference to

some kind of like maybe like to redheads

being bad redheads bad luck i don't know

um i always say that redheads are bad

luck because in the movie confidence

because there's one time let me tell you

in the movie confidence they they're

they're grifters and they make reference

to redheads being bad luck

yeah uh and so i don't know if this is

like a con man

thing i'm only grasping at straws here

uh when jeff

asks why he needs the money though he

hands him a campaign flyer because rudy

is running for state senate

and uh he puts a 10 bill on a hook and

casts it across the street with a

with a fishing pole which i'd like to

know how he does yeah because there's

power lines all across the street

well that and a 10 dollar bill has

absolutely no weight to it well there's

a lot of chewing gum on there too

um he slowly reels the guy through

traffic across the street

and he gives him the ten dollars before

he starts selling him hard on the buick

that he ran into

when he got here kurt is talking super

fast here

and he almost sounds like quentin

tarantino when you add this whole thing

up taking any kind of inflation rate

insurance savings gas savings easing

comfort you're gonna come out ten

thousand dollars ahead if you're making

this deal while the president is a loan

of owning a buick centurion convertible

getting measured in terms of dollars and

cents am i right

when he hears the guy's name he pretends

to also be polish

and compliments the man's shitty shoes

across the street roy is just learning

that despite an expensive bribery

campaign

the mayor will be announcing a new

freeway ramp that will cut through his

lot

making it useless i guess they're like

it's literally

an eminent domain situation they're

going to take the whole lot

the assistant deputy district attorney

that's the joe flaherty character

says that the mayor had to prove that he

was impartial so they chose his lot over

his brother's lot

and roy complains you know it used to be

when you bought a politician that son of

a [ __ ] stayed bought

stan the gullible customer with kurt

drives off rudy's lot in the buick but

as he turns onto the boulevard the

bumper that russo just slapped his own

political bumper sticker on falls off

the car

he seems more upset about the wasted

sticker than potentially upsetting the

customer by having the bumper fall off

of it

suddenly he notices that luke is awake

luke actually owns this lot

and he's extremely out of focus

rudy is holding the customer's shoes

implying that he pretended to like them

so much that he offered to buy them off

of the guy i guess

and luke makes it clear that he's not a

fan of customer baiting

or the bait and switch stuff that rudy's

always pulling he tries to make the

point more practically with rudy and he

says

just let's suppose that he is an

undercover agent for the consumer

protection agency

we're still on probation for consumer

fraud so

apparently they've gotten in trouble

before but they're still pulling all

these games all the time

he knows if he does anything to endanger

the lot that roy will scoop it up out

from under him

and rudy explains look i just need ten

thousand more dollars

he needs sixty thousand total apparently

because he that's how much it costs to

buy the nomination

for the state senate seat and uh luke

can't help but agree that that's exactly

where rudy belongs

because he's such a great liar luke asks

toby his dog for a phillips head

screwdriver

and the dog runs over and grabs a flat

head rudy pitches

stupid dog rudy pitches some extreme

advertising campaigns

i have to bring up the line from the the

norm mcdonald show that

norm when he has a dog and someone's

talking to him about how they train

their dog to dial 9-1-1

and then at the end of the episode nor

mcdonald's having a heart attack and

he's like

quick down 9-1-1 and you hear beep beep

boop and he's like that's 9-9-1 you

idiot

but yeah rudy pitches some extreme

advertising campaigns

they want to pirate tv signals in the

area they want to hire strippers on the

lot

and luke is not having any of it he's

just massaging his heart through his

shirt like it's about to just give up on

him

toby tries to give him the flathead and

luke is like no this is not what i asked

for

uh luke offers to loan rudy the last ten

thousand dollars that he needs

and rudy is so grateful that he swings

luke in a circle and throws him on the

ground hard

this poor old man uh rudy gets luke one

of his pills

because he needs to take pills whenever

his heart is acting up

he makes rudy promise that his brother

will never steal this car lot out from

under him

roy is watching for him across the

street in binoculars and

he comments on his brother's bad heart

and how it's only a matter of time

before he's going to inherit this lot

i wish we would establish you know where

this feud came from

oh like why did these brothers fueled

this feud the wet field the fugue spewed

yeah okay there you go it's good um

maybe we do a prequel

called cars

take it already luke has a daughter

but she is long gone and roy develops a

plan that his new mechanic mickey

from the local demolition derby will

pose as a customer

and ask luke for a test drive and then

drive crazily enough to give him a heart

attack

mickey decides to act out this plan

wearing his uniform from roy's shop

which i thought was weird just before

the fateful test drive

luke is in a daze because he just got a

call from his estranged daughter

and she wants to come see him and he's

just over the moon with happiness about

it

i was sure this was just the second

prong of roy's plan getting his daughter

in on the scheme to win the lot back

if the test drive didn't work together

right because otherwise there's

absolutely no reason

that she would just suddenly call yeah

it would it would have made more sense

that she came out of the woodwork if he

had died or when she when there were

accusations of murder or something yeah

because

this whole plot still works

if he's he if everyone knows that he's

dead

yeah and she comes around because that's

the whole centerpiece of the plot anyway

is that she's gonna get control

mickey talks luke into a test drive in

the 57 chevy at the front of the lot

which is their nicest car and uh when

mickey buckles his seat belt luke says

oh you won't need that she rides very

smooth that's like that's not really

what seat belts are for but okay

mickey does a bunch of really dangerous

u-turns and hops the boulevard divider

repeatedly

uh when luke tries to take his pills

mickey takes a hard left and tosses all

the pills out the car window

luke clutches the patch on mickey's

shoulder so hard that he peels it off of

his uniform

and eventually mickey literally rolls

the car back into the

used car lot it's completely totaled and

he gets out and says you know what i

decided i'm not interested and he leaves

rudy's trying to seal the deal with a

client inside who's haggling about the

last fifty dollars

and rudy says fine you know what you win

this but

i'm going to tell my boss and he's going

to have a stroke when i tell him about

this 50 dollars

yeah but you know the way that he rolled

that car in there

if if uh he wasn't wearing yeah if he

wasn't wearing a seat belt he would have

just been killed instantly

in that car it has nothing to do with a

heart attack luke bursts in

having a heart attack and the customer

thinks that this is still over the 50

and when luke collapses to the ground he

tries to stuff the down payment into

luke's hand

and luke actually takes the money which

made me laugh

but uh rudy does what he can here the

customers freak out and leave

but luke dies there in the office on the

floor and he finds

a patch for roy l fuchs pre-owned

automobiles crumpled up in luke's hand

roy is watching from across the street

and

rudy knows it and so he turns off the

lights and he's trying to figure out

what he's going to do with this body

when jeff comes in

and also freaks out he turns the lights

on again and then

rudy turns him off again but he tells

jeff you know i just promised luke that

i wasn't going to let roy take this

place

so we got to figure out what we're going

to do roy calls the assistant d.a guy

and says you know what we're going to go

visit my brother in the morning i just

want to check up make sure he's doing

okay

mechanic gym helps crane the edsel down

from the column

in the front of the used car lot and

they put luke's corpse in the driver's

seat

and then bury him in the pit behind

their shop

i like that they also put coins over his

eyes yeah like they also put a necklace

of garlic on him

i think that's because they were

expecting to have to dig him up later

but rudy gives a quick eulogy for him

and he says luke fuchs is about to drive

over the curb for the last time

in the morning roy shows up just as they

finish burying the car

and uh they tell roy that luke went to

miami beach florida last week

that he was in a really bad test drive

last night and he wanted to

just get some relaxation so he left town

the plane is still on to hijack the

television

signal tonight and uh rudy says that if

they get in trouble they can just say

oh it's our boss's fault and they can't

charge him with anything because he's

dead already

they can't even find him to charge him

with it the tech guys in charge of the

hijacking

get the their system up in place plenty

and squiggy yeah

it's dark in the lot at the moment

because they actually have to do this on

location at the football game

but the lights will come on right when

they start running the commercial

jeff suggests that they just pretend to

sell one of the cars here in the parking

lot of the game

and he says oh we'll just sell this

maroon car but jim notices with a

flashlight that this is actually a red

car

and laughs at what will be jeff's

inevitable meltdown yeah

because like they're using like blue

blue lights or blue tinted lights at the

moment and so i guess it's kind of

obscuring the true color of the car yeah

and they also have a model that's

sitting on the hood of the car wearing

like a fancy dress

and uh as a disguise the tech

guys bought these googly-eyed glasses

for them to wear in the commercial

originally they were like dick nose

glasses yeah cause i saw those

in kurt russell's hands yeah and he he

reaches out to hand them these dick

nosed glasses and then when they're

receiving them they're completely

different glasses but that was because

colombia was like

yeah no we're not going to have our

characters with penises on their faces

for this scene save that for a dan

aykroyd movie yeah

jeff doesn't want them to wear anything

but he eventually relents right before

they start rolling on the commercial

but as soon as he notices that it's a

red car he just starts losing his [ __ ]

and he's cursing

and freaking out and people at home are

watching this commercial going like what

did he just say

um i like the random assortment of

people that we're getting

yeah including dick miller yeah for no

reason dick miller is having sex with a

woman

and then he never comes possibly

unconscious yeah this woman doesn't look

like she's conscious at all

she's looking away from the tv and she

doesn't do anything yeah you barely see

him and i'm like was that dick miller

and then i was

sure that that character was going to

come into play but it was him and

no he doesn't but he's one of the people

in this montage that does not show up

the next day on the lot

the the model tries to slide off of the

car and she gets her dress stuck on the

hood ornament

and then rudy jumps into frame with

different googly-eyed glasses

and he goes to pop the hood and it tears

this girl's dress completely off

so everyone watching around town is just

shocked at the boobs in cursing that

suddenly took over their football game

um i like the scene with the the large

family that's all

jumping around the living room and the

mother is just appalled by this but the

kids

and the dad are like no no i don't know

leave it on me leave it on this is good

and and i like that it coincides with

the roar of the football stadium who's

obviously not watching the broadcast

yeah

but it's it's just happened there's a

couple of like these coincidences that

happen that are pretty great

but then someone comes in on camera and

just starts groping her

and i think it's literally the cameraman

is reaching out

yeah it's weird that happens again later

too and it's

also weird uh the lot is crowded the

next day by people who saw the

commercial unfortunately no dick miller

here though

mr gertner the driving school instructor

who

luke typically sold cars to was upset

about being sold different cars than

luke showed him

rudy bribes them to shut up jeff tries

to guilt a father al the father of the

pile of kids into buying a car by saying

that their dog toby wants him to buy it

and then when they pull the car away

jeff kicks a big rock under the tire

to pretend that they've killed toby

well except is it people well we do get

the drugged dog here which is always

disturbing when they do this

but he's holding a completely

unconscious dose and we're sure that

this dog was drugged to get this look

because well no it's

on set they killed it but in the movie

no yeah it's uh it does it's in the imdb

trivia

the dog yeah and they use like little

doggy

tranquilizers it's not like they just

gave it up

big beer yeah that's like debbie downer

but

with more fur um

maybe i don't know you don't know about

debbie

you know her life he's holding this

apparently dead dog and he says all he

wanted was for you to be happy in this

car

and now he's dead in front of all these

kids that are just sobbing

he tells them toby just wanted them to

have the car and be happy

and so al buys the car out of guilt and

as he's pulling out of the lot he drops

two kids out of the back

because the the back gate of the car

just falls open

but luckily these two kids are both

wearing full protective football gear

which i'm sure was a condition of being

able to drop kids in the road well they

don't seem to be particularly careful

about their

their car stunts in this film yeah

roy has a family carnival night on his

uh on his lot

he's got camels and tents and games and

stuff and then suddenly music and lights

kick on across the street

and strippers are dancing on the roofs

of the cars and also rudy is up there

dancing with one of the strippers yeah

um

actually did you did you look at who

rudy's dancing with

no okay we'll we'll come back to that

it's interesting

okay but the stripper on the car with

rudy is wearing bunny ears so i'm

assuming she's the person credited as

bunny later

cars are crashing into each other as

they notice these strippers on the lot

and uh but like a flood of people are

coming from the other lot which i think

is strange because like

similarly to like a whole lot of

families watching

like this football game and then coming

to a used car lot the next day

because they saw a naked woman on

television selling cars

would you like take your family over to

the stripper lot to go buy your car like

is that the exciting thing that

if i had to choose between a camel and a

stripper yes

but i'm just like all the people are

running like all the women all the

children like everyone's like strippers

but also who goes to a car lot at like

nine o'clock at night yeah either well

when you want to see strippers you do i

guess

i guess yeah but uh the whole time that

this is going on cars are crashing into

each other in the road because they're

stopping to see the strippers

and uh even more people need cars now

rudy gets home after a successful event

and he turns on hail to the chief on a

little tape deck he has

as he loads more money into the safe in

his fridge that he's saving up to

run for office he listens to his phone

messages he gets a few girls

looking for second dates and then a call

from jeff

uh pretending like they're in trouble

because roy recorded the whole stunt

from across the street

i'm not clear on why this is bad news um

but he's like

you're never gonna believe this but roy

got footage of what we did

and he's gonna tell everybody even

though we did it

in public to tell everybody i guess it's

just how he's spinning it

yeah i mean he he is planning to go on

tv and say a lot of bad things about

them but

you know did they not think it was

scummy to have strippers dancing on

their

own marshall had a naked woman in it i

mean like all no

no press like all press is good press

right yeah this this is

tamer than what they on purpose put on

tv yesterday right and it got them a lot

of business

right so i would think that like him

complaining would actually get them more

business

yeah but uh rudy's next pitch is to

hijack

all three major networks during a

presidential address and jeff says

we can't [ __ ] with the president and

rudy responds he [ __ ] with us doesn't

he apparently spielberg argued for that

line to be removed from the film

because he was a big fan and donor to

the carter campaign but zemeckis was

like no this is this is what the people

in

like the small town i grew up in this is

how they feel about anyone in

in politics is a bad person and so that

line is staying in the movie

and i feel spielberg after 1941 should

just

trust zemeckis and gail yeah to do their

own thing

yeah rudy says they have to do something

because they had nuns protesting outside

the lot this morning

and then he said i had to have jim turn

the fire hose on him and jim goes

and i knocked the [ __ ] right on

their ass too

frank mcrae is such a great character

he's one of this movie

i was worried that he was just going to

be like some

when you always see him asleep yeah that

that was going to be the recurring joke

yeah no

no no he is he is full-on in this movie

yeah i wish we had established that why

he keeps falling asleep on the job it

seems a little weird

yeah i don't know as the tech guys

explain the practicality of the plan

jeff doubts their capabilities

until squiggy points them to lenny's

homemade pacemaker

which is like still has like battery

parts sticking out of his chest

and uh it's funny too because they he's

like how do you charge that they're

how do you replace the batteries in that

thing it's like they're rechargeable

but i like because like jeff is so into

it he's like he's like

because uh uh squeaky's like only 12.95

this

no kidding i feel like he's super he's

like trying to touch it they're looking

like iron man though with this thing

yeah that's true um jeff is suddenly

hiding under the windows because a girl

just pulled up in a red truck

and he assumes that she is with the

consumer protection agency

and as he as rudy approaches her he

tells her that she just won dinner for

two

and that he's willing to throw himself

in since it looks like there's only one

of her

she calls out all the flaws on the car

and he asks her straight up if she's

with consumer protection agency

and she says not anymore like is this

part of why she left

because she had a problem with the way

that her father was selling used cars

well and she seems to know something

about cars because she's talking about

like the paint colors and things like

that because it just seems weird to me

that

by coincidence she happened to work for

the consumer protection agency in the

past

unless it's specifically the reason that

she and her father

split parted ways and this is where we

get one of those overlapping dialogue

scenes where framer craze is

i bet she's with the consumer marketing

and it cuts to her saying no i'm not i'm

not anymore

but she's just looking for luke and when

she learns that he just went to miami

beach yesterday she bursts into tears

apparently luke is her father and later

uh while she uses a restroom with a

peephole in the door

rudy explains who she is to jim and jeff

his plan here is to keep her away from

the shop

and send her on her way so he takes her

to the best salad bar in town

airport lance which i love because it's

like a three-way joke of salad bars

are gross and airport eateries and

bowling alley eateries it's like the

least possible romantic date

rudy tries a couple of times to tell her

about luke on this date

but she's come to her own conclusion

that he clearly left town

the second she said she was coming out

and she's gonna

be on her way soon she's gonna leave for

oregon in the morning but as she's just

about to leave

rudy stops her and he says that he hopes

that when she gets things straightened

out

that uh she'll try to reconnect with him

and she revises her plan because of this

and says you know what i can stay a

couple days

there's no reason i have to leave right

now which is

bad for rudy he just messed up jeff

suggests

sending her to miami on a train while

they shoot the ad because they're still

moving forward with the presidential ad

rudy doesn't want to

send her on a train because he already

feels shitty enough about what they've

done to her

uh but then they asked him what would a

senator do he's like ah [ __ ] you're

right i got to do whatever's the worst

possible thing

at dinner that night rudy tries again to

tell her the truth but

uh he accidentally drops the train

ticket that jeff bought on the floor

and the waiter picks it up and puts it

on the table and she sees it and then he

has to go into

their their lie because it's harder to

explain that

this was a prop for a lie that he's not

going to use anymore

the tech guys set up the satellite

interceptors and also explosives under

the cars on roy's lot

it seems really dangerous to be like on

top of a building adjusting satellites

within view of the white house but

that's

like but this is also 1980 yeah but i

still feel like you you'd have sharp

shooters trained on you or something

in the restaurant another customer just

pulls out a full-size television and

puts it on his table

and starts watching carter's address in

the restaurant realizing he's not going

to get this guy to shut the tv off

rudy pretends that he's having some sort

of an attack and rushes out to the bar

where more tvs are broadcasting the

speech and then he rushes outside and

all

this way she's following him further and

further out of the restaurant i'm a

little confused as to why

they're going to this trouble of making

sure she doesn't see this commercial

yeah i'm not sure really because like

what does the commercial

mean like to to to her to an uninvolved

person who doesn't know that she owns

the lot now like

so you interrupted this broadcast and

made a commercial like yeah

she would just be like okay that's why

my dad does business now i don't know

yeah

but uh the last place he he sits down is

accidentally against the front window of

a television shop

and all broadcasts are the same speech

from carter

and then rudy jumps up and puts his

hands over barbara's ears

and spins her around and starts kissing

her for the entire length of the

commercial

and the commercial is this jeff dressed

as a western marshall

is firing a shotgun at the cars on roy's

lot apparently they were actually firing

a real gun at real cars on the lot

jesus it really it seemed like it it

didn't seem like

squibs or anything yeah then uh suddenly

jim

shows up dressed as high prices which is

just a purple rectangle that says high

prices on it yeah

he's like the grimace basically he

climbs up on the car's roof and then

jeff shoots him in the chest

and this was real they killed the guy

this part was fake

yeah because blood just splatters out

it's pretty convincing

but then the commercial ends with them

literally detonating a bomb under one of

the most expensive cars on roy's lot and

roy at home is watching this commercial

and puts his foot through his television

and gets electrocuted

the next morning being interviewed by

the fbi jeff

blames crazed iranian students he's like

i don't know there's a bunch of iranians

and it's like

you're wearing the same clothes you're

wearing in the commercial why

you just put some [ __ ] on your face it's

obviously you but they're like okay

great and they get on their cars and

they leave

back in the shop jeff finds jim asleep

this time with the blowtorch running

yeah but they don't turn it off they

just let him sleep like that

jeff moves outside for a smoke and

suddenly roy is there trying to run him

over and kill him repeatedly

the first stunt is pretty cool here he

chases him up onto a ledge

and then he turns and crashes the car

into the ledge and he falls out onto the

hood

but it's just the timing worked out

really well and it's actually like jack

warden driving the car

too because he gets out of it they move

into the office and just beat each other

up for a long time

roy takes a chair and he tries to swing

it and hit jeff but he's holding it too

high and he smashes it into a beam

across the ceiling

yeah it kind of reminded me of the

samurai sword fight in the mobile home

oh yeah yeah and kill bill when they

keep realizing the limitations of the

area

yeah they keep trying to unsheath it and

they just keep hitting the walls yeah

the room's not wide enough to get the

sword out

then he picks up another chair and he

doesn't make the same mistake this time

and is able to just knock jeff out

during the fight though

roy smashes a framed photo of luke and

barbara

sitting on the edsel it's a black and

white photo from when barbara was a

child

and the car is parked over the pit and

he grabs a big piece of glass from this

broken frame and he goes to slit jeff's

throat

but uh then it occurs to him that they

were burying the pit this morning

i bet my [ __ ] brother is in that hole

they filled in the pit and so he runs

out to the yard and he digs all of like

five inches to get to the roof of the

buried car

the dog tries to wake jim inside and i

was really worried that the dog

because the dog and this unconscious guy

and the still on

blowtorch blowtorch are all in the same

shot and i was like if this dog went a

little bit further that way like this

could have been a really gross scene

but he can't get jim awaken so he

decides to pee on his face

which makes this the second movie in a

row where a dog peed on a thing to get a

message across to people

jim chases him out into the pit where

the dog sits down next to the unburied

patch of roof

of the car and uh i feel like i

definitely would have just assumed the

dog did right

exactly anybody knew anything at this

point

but it is toby yeah i guess jim knows

that toby's too smart for that

but i also feel like if i'm roy

i'm gonna cover the car up too because i

don't want them to know that i know

so i feel like he should have done it

first but then uh either way

maybe they they're also going off of

information from jeff

which is that he was here and he saw

this picture and he freaked out and he

went outside

back because he yells it right jack

warden as the brother

yells the pit they filled in the pit

yeah so he would have heard him say that

and know that he knows where the car is

back in rudy's trailer he is having sex

with barbara when jim calls

jim fills him in on what happened and he

leaves barbara very suddenly but he

promises he'll be back soon

he lies to her that that all that

happened was jeff got in a fight has

nothing to do with her father

after he steps out she listens to the

full message and it's very uncomfortably

direct

like the first thing that jim says that

she didn't hear was knows luke's dead

he found out we buried him luckily

toward the end of the call he does say

we better do something or the cops are

going to think we killed him but by then

she's

already sobbing completely and probably

in shock

i don't understand why for the rest of

the movie she doesn't assume that they

murdered her father

right which is what i would have thought

if i heard someone say

hey he figured out where we buried that

lady's father

yeah but then he says that we didn't

kill him right but she's already

sobbing by then and i feel like she

would have just been so shocked like

what my dad is dead

but even then he's gonna think we killed

him could mean like

jeff killed him and you know we all we

know is that he was a part of the

cover-up

the next morning while the press is

questioning jeff about the

presidential signal break-in three cops

suddenly come flying through the lot

toward the pit

rudy says that they just missed luke he

got back about a half an hour ago and he

went to get breakfast but he'll be right

back

then from behind a pile of hay bales jim

is just drenching luke's body and car

with gasoline

and rigging the car to floor it but it's

connected to a tow truck

so that he can just drop it from the tow

truck and let the car drive in a

straight line away from him

and he sends the car perfectly across

the road at a power transformer

and the car explodes i think it's

amazing that they could

anticipate this it's not like that

traffic was stopped or anything like

that

yeah and also gonna hit any number of

things on the way it just hits another

car

exploded yeah well what if it just hit

another car in the road and exploded

like that could have happened too or

just kill a person or just hit another

car and just came to a complete stop

because

the gasoline didn't ignite this guy

wearing garlic and have coins on his

eyes and he's covered in gasoline

i like because i like the line read from

one of the cops oh look he is alive

yeah it's just like oh well i guess so

it confirms that you said it

they can't tell time of death from a

from a skeleton

nope roy congratulates rudy on winning

this round so cleanly

and roy thinks that uh this death means

that the lot is his

but then rudy says oh i guess you forgot

about your niece barbara

she's staying over at my place and then

roy just loses it punches him in the

face

but then barbara shows up and he doesn't

appreciate that she clearly knows more

than she did when he left

because she's very angry and she wants

to know the truth and he starts to tell

her

but because there's still law

enforcement standing around

joe flaherty is like right there just

listening to him and he says okay she

didn't

he didn't go to miami he went to aspen

and then she fires rudy and jeff and jim

uh what he should have done is taken her

into the office and explained what

actually happened yeah yeah

but instead he did this also show her

like the evidence that he was murdered

yeah because they they have that yeah

rudy is reduced to selling his own stuff

to get to the 60 000

mark but the kids he's trying to sell

his stuff to are very skeptical

and he says don't think about it too

long there's a ninth grader looking at

it yesterday

jeff suggests that he spend the rest of

his money gambling because it's a much

faster way to get to the number he needs

and he jeff mentions that he encountered

a bunch of tens today

and so he bet ten dollars on denver to

win tonight's game

rudy gets a call from the party chairman

and he says hey so we're bumping up the

deadline on that payment we'll need that

sixty thousand dollars tomorrow morning

in the background jim's empty barbecue

erupts in flames

and he uses a fire extinguisher instead

of shutting it

um barbara ruined all that good meat but

there was nothing on the grill

yeah there was not in the scene where

the flames are coming out of it it's

literally completely empty now

barbara organizes the commercial shoot

with channel seven k

[ __ ] uh that's the truck literally says

kfuk

of course it does uh one of roy's guys

steals

a script from the commercial shoot and

shares it with roy and they laugh at how

badly she's running the place

roy gets a call from the mayor's office

saying hey you should find a way to sell

your lot in the next 24 hours because

the mayor is going to announce that

off-ramp soon

and you won't be able to sell it

tomorrow basically roy suggests that

they head to k-fuck

and he has them doctor the commercial

that she just shot

and changed the phrase style of cars to

mile of cars

you see where she said style

see the uh style of cars we have to

choose from

further on down she says this

3217 valley road

just one a mile west

of route a mile i took the word mile and

i put it over style

now watch this come on down

and see the uh

mile of cars we have to choose from

son of a fish let me see that again

see the uh smile pile of cars we have to

choose from

we have god damn that's terrific

what do you think sam well splaton case

of false advertising i've ever seen i

could have her convicted 24 hours after

it's here

the spot is supposed to air tonight and

they expect to have her in court for

false advertising the following day

the driving instructor corners rudy at a

bar and slaps him for selling his

students

lemons but suddenly rudy is distracted

by the

end of the game and he just kind of

drops the

instructor on the floor it seems like

jeff's bet is paying off

but rudy bet forty thousand dollars

against him jeff flips out when he hears

how much rudy bet

and he says don't you get it the only

way you can win is if uh

uh i lose and the game seems

pretty well in hand by the end of the

game there's a minute left and denver's

up

and it looks like they've got it in the

bag and

rudy says five minutes ago i think

denver have to run into some pretty bad

luck don't you think

we would have to run into pretty bad

luck and then

jim slides over the salt to jeff

indicating like hey give yourself some

bad luck if you're so

uh what's the word for superstitious

superstitious there you go

on the next play jeff slaps it over and

the broncos fumble

immediately jeff is rifling through his

pockets dumping rabbit's feet

and crushed lucky strike cigarette boxes

he starts running around the bar

knocking over everyone's salt

opening whatever umbrellas he can find

and eventually he jumps the bar to climb

under a ladder

and as he does this the uh the kansas

city chiefs are

throwing a touchdown but uh before

it's caught the bartender pulls him out

from under the ladder and throws him

back over the bar

into the into the middle of the room and

so they miss this pass

and then kansas city sets up for the

final play and jeff lifts a stool and

tosses it through a mirror

just as kansas city takes the lead to

finish the game at the last second

suddenly rudy is being kissed by a woman

with her arm in a sling that was

standing next to him that hasn't been in

the scene at all

or a movie at all until just now i i was

wondering if i had missed something

nope rudy takes his winnings to get his

nomination the next day

sorry and so did he mention

what the bet was he said forty thousand

dollars but what were the odds

he doesn't he doesn't go into the office

so we don't know how much money he won

no and i don't i don't imagine it was a

lot actually because kansas city

was favored right which was the whole

point of him putting 10 on denver was

that

mccrae said something along the lines of

like oh they're they're

like the worst in the in their division

right now there's no way

yeah and then he names all the other

tens that showed up yeah oh that's funny

but yeah so uh rudy gets in this car the

next morning it's a limousine i think

it's a limousine right

and he has this briefcase with all the

cash in it it's just

loose money in a briefcase once again

looking like real money

yeah it looks just like a real pile of

cash and

he's handed two major bills to go over

while he's looking at stuff

it's like he didn't he's not already in

this position but they're just giving

him

paperwork that that he might have to

deal with he presumed yeah

he'd be running unopposed and he's just

buying the the nomination from the party

the guy in the in the car with him

has uh one of those like long chain

handcuffs so the second he gets in there

he

cuffs the bag of money yeah because he's

like you're not taking this back

it just seems like super sketchy yeah

and in addition to them buying the

the political seat well it seems like he

was

i i thought it was going to turn out

that he was lying about this i i thought

it was like a setup like that he was

gonna be caught for bribe

trying to bribe a political officer and

that the handcuff was just gonna go on

rudy and not the bag

one of the two bills he's handed is

about the off-ramp that's gonna cut

through roy's lot

and suddenly make their lot much more

expensive and the other one is about a

hospital that's being replaced with a

golf course

but we don't get much more of that i'm

assuming he's running as a republican he

did mention somebody who likes to golf

wait i think it's the judge is it the

judge okay

they drive past the new deal used cars

lot and it is closed

because of the false advertising in

their commercial last night

the man in the car with rudy says that

barbara is due to face a judge in five

minutes

and in the courtroom we see roy

complaining that they've been saddled

with

a notoriously unbribable judge

but joe flaherty insists that you know

they they have this case like

literally everyone here is is on on

the take except for the judge like i'm

literally i'm paying her lawyer

so it's fine don't worry about it in the

car the guy with rudy handcuffs himself

to rudy's money

but really gets out of the car in

traffic and then somehow cuts the chain

with the car door

like i'd hate to slam my fingers in this

door if it can come to a metal chain

but uh judge enters the courtroom and

barbara is sworn in

rudy bursts in just as she's beginning

her testimony

and she's asked point blank did you say

that there was a that you have a mile of

cars

and rudy tells her to lie she says i do

have a mile of cars

and when she licenses when she's

committing the perjury um on top of the

false advertising because now she's

saying under oath in court that she has

a mile of cars that she doesn't have

but the judge makes her repeat this

answer uh as he's dancing his fingers

along like a little hangman's gallows on

his desk

and is it han solo on the hangman is it

oh i didn't even notice it didn't look

that closely yeah it was a guy

in a white shirt and a black vest it's a

little action figure

and i was just like is that han solo

maybe

um the whole thing like i mean the whole

fact that they were getting

this into court like the next day after

it happened

is just so weird and bizarre to begin

with and then the fact that the judge

comes in and is basically threatening

her like he's gonna

kill her or lock her up for this yeah

minor violation that i don't even think

is gonna be like a federal crime

yeah i don't even think it's a

misdemeanor it was just a i misspoke

your honor the end well and and because

the judge also seems very accommodating

later on yeah so it seems like he's not

that much of a threat but they're

building up for this scene

yeah but rudy shouts from the gallery

why don't you see for yourself judge

and everyone's like yeah yeah why don't

you do that and the judge is like

he's excited by this crowd energy and

he's like yeah you know what i am going

to do it and i'm going to do it today

so i'm going to be back there at 2 45

this afternoon and then he slams the

gavel down and it activates the

guillotine on his desk

we cut back to manuel and he sells rudy

this

desert stack of 250 cars out in the

middle of nowhere but he points out

you have no way to move these cars and

he says oh that's not true i got 250

drivers

and mr gertner brought the entire class

of kids from his high school

but there he has 250 cars and needs 250

drivers right now there's a whole bunch

of extra kids

getting into the seats with these that's

true drivers that really bothered me

well maybe he only brought 250 drivers

but he brought

600 kids 600 kids i don't know manuel

says hey while you're here i have a

bunch of marijuana i could tell you and

he's like i don't have time for that

right now man well

jeff and jeff's like you should really

talk to him about that marijuana

but as he's helping barbara down the

hill here manuel is just full-on

grabbing her breasts from behind her and

she like spins away from him terrified

by it

roy is already celebrating at his lot

assuming that barbara has left town

in embarrassment or to avoid arrest jim

tells rudy

that they are exactly one car over the

mark i don't know how they know that

because they didn't measure all the cars

here well i i think it's

jim's car knowledge okay that that he is

just

like i said he's that good yeah uh one

set of students notices that they're

towing a car

and he says we're towing a car oh no

have you ever towed a car before

no the kids all start their cars these

kids are all at driver's ed

they've barely driven before i don't

think they're all even actors i think

they needed so many people on this day

that you know

the because the way that they got 250

cars was they literally just put an ad

in the paper and said

hey we need a scene with a lot of cars

so if you bring your car you and your

car will be in a movie

which is funny because the cars in this

pi this desert pile of cars looks so

much nicer than every other car in this

movie that's true

nervous nona is sitting in a car with

their driving instructor

mr gertner and she's worried because she

has her hands at 10 and 2 but she

realizes she'll have to take her hand

off the wheel to start the car and she

doesn't want to fail the class

the cars are all rushing over tumbleweed

through the desert and they're on their

way back to the lot

but they realize that going 55 they're

not going to get there in time so rudy

says

it's time for a driving history lesson

we're all going to drive the speed we

used to which is 75 miles an hour

and amazingly all these cars can go 75

miles an hour i like the montage of

feet hitting the gas pedal and then one

hits one foot hits it and then two other

feet go

onto it in that same montage one of the

at the feet hit the pedal and the pedal

just falls off

uh the kids towing a car are immediately

getting pulled over

and not knowing how to pull over or stop

for the police

they just break check this cop and he

hits the car that they're towing so hard

that his car flips upside down and

smashes the car behind them

and they look at the instructions for

like

driving lessons and it says at the scene

of an accident wait for the cops to

arrive

and the girl says they're here and then

she pulls away

leaving this car and leaving the cop in

an upside down car

mickey tells roy that he just heard on

the police scanner that

there's a shitload of used cars on the

way and roy immediately knows

what the plan is here jeff tells rudy

that the cops have set up a roadblock

now that they lost the car they were

towing

jeff says that we no longer have that

one car

over the line mark that we had before so

we're at exactly the length of cars that

we need

we can't afford to lose one more and

rudy says why don't you go ahead of us

and when he goes ahead he finds a police

roadblock trying to stop all these cars

so he tells rudy about it and then they

all start

off-roading so they're driving as a crow

flies straight to the lot

jeff blows past some construction and a

bunch of water spraying out of one of

the

trucks on the road washes all the paint

off the side of the car

to reveal that it's actually a a red car

because it belonged to a fire department

see my concern was that it belonged to

the fire department and it was going to

be a stolen car

and not permitted well i think all these

painted carts are stolen cars aren't

they

uh i i assume but i thought that this

would be more

obvious now the paints come off i think

it's weird that

the the fire department would have like

a four-door sedan

as one of their vehicles well i i do see

like these

uh fire department like vehicles on the

road where it's just like a normal car

but

i guess it's for maybe administrators or

yeah i'm not sure

um ask your dad okay right right now get

him on the phone

no roy mickey and sam pull up in a

pickup truck

and roy and mickey climb into the back

of it rudy's black pickup truck has a

skull and crossbones on the side which

reminded me

of kurt russell's car in death proof

which has a similar paint job

but it's a completely different car

mickey pulls a gun on them

as they're driving side by side through

the desert jim swings over and taps

their car and mickey tumbles over the

hood of

his car he points the gun directly

through the windshield at jim and tells

him to stop the car

and then jim literally punches straight

forward through the windshield into the

guy's face

and knocks him tumbling off into the

into the dirt of the desert

and probably under the wheels of

hundreds of student drivers yeah

um i like uh jim and the other driver

getting into it

like he's like i want you i want you i

want you next

roy starts whipping rudy and barbara

with a [ __ ] chain from the back of

his truck

uh rudy rudy grabs it and i really

wanted him to just tie it off to the

truck

but he doesn't do that and so roy is

able to like basically yank him up and

throw him off of that car

and he falls through the soft top of a

passing convertible

and uh then he starts doing like one of

those typical western scenes

where he jumping from horse to horse and

a train to get to the front but he's

jumping from roof to roof of these cars

he eventually jumps roy in the truck bed

and punches him off of the car

into the dirt the same as what they did

to me the car that he jumped off of

to get there was the car that the driver

instructor and the girl was in and she's

like

i don't know what to do when there's a

man on the hood of my car

yeah the rest of the cars are all

pulling up to the dealership jeff drives

past

a mirror truck and notices in horror

that he's driving a red car

and pulls over immediately and then

walks across the street

oh my god and this is real right yes 100

real

did they use like a really crazy long

lens or something like that no

it's just a really stupid stunt i feel

like i would have been really mad if i

was this actor and i saw this shot and

saw how close the guy got

but he gets out of this car and he's

walking backwards in shock

refusing to drive another inch when a

car coming the opposite direction

swerves around him at less than the last

second

like le the last quarter second and just

misses him by a foot on one side and his

reaction is great because

he doesn't react to the car at all even

though it got so close to him but it's

insane

it's insane how close they let this car

get nona asks mr gertner if she passed

the test

and he says yes as long as you promise

to take your driver's test in another

state

you get full credit for this class rudy

calls

to jeff to see where he's at and he

admits that he's

right at the train tracks on the other

side and uh he

just realized his car is red and he

can't drive it any further and he says

red cars don't mean [ __ ] i'm sorry i'm

sorry like immediately like

i don't want to upset you like i know

about your superstitions i can't

i don't want to piss you off right now

but i've already been driving it

yeah since you've been driving it all

day

and then he looks at at barbara and then

he's like

you know what you're actually driving

there's gray primer on that car that's a

you're driving a gray car that's been

painted red

and he he says if you don't get here

soon we're gonna lose the lot

we have everything we need except for

one car we're gonna lose the lot if you

can't get over here

and uh the train is coming and it's a

long one so if he doesn't get

across the track soon they are screwed

but when he gets to the tracks he

ends up having to swerve at the last

second because the train is already

passing

but he gets out of the car and he flips

a switch on this

car carrier trailer that's waiting for

the train to pass

and the car rolls off the back of the

truck but now the back of the trailer

basically formed a ramp

on top of this truck and so he drives

full speed and he hits the ramp

and clears the track and the train with

his mouth full of lucky rabbit's feet

and uh

as he's just about to hit the ramp he

goes it better be a gray car

the final measurement indicates that

they are now 18 feet short

until jeff skids up with another 17.8

feet of car

and then roy slaps the car in

celebration and the license plate tips

forward

and they cross the line into an official

mile of cars and the judge immediately

dismisses the case banging the gavel on

the back of the vehicle

sam tells rudy about the off-ramp uh sam

is the

joe flaherty joe flaherty character um

and he says hey

uh the off-ramp is going to cut through

this lot this your lot's going to become

worth a lot more money

i think we should work together and he

tries to make a deal with rudy right

away even though

rudy does not own this lot he doesn't

even work here anymore barbara owns this

lot

and uh joe flaherty is the one who set

up barbara yeah

like he was involved in that although

flaherty did

advise roy not to kill his brother yeah

that's

it's one thing earlier when he's like oh

you know he's got a bad heart we could

always use that

he's like you don't want to do something

dangerous like that like blatantly tells

him

don't don't kill your brother let's just

let him die here barbara accuses rudy of

having known all along that the

the off-ramp was going to cut through

the other dealership and for some reason

he lies and says

he has no idea and he just found out

right here and then a woman interrupts

them to

ask about this vehicle and she says this

was this a taxi why is it painted yellow

and she says no that's just yellow

primer because she's learning how to lie

with him

and but why what would be the problem

with saying yes it was a taxi i don't

know

high mileage high use vomit smell

i don't know what the taxi problems are

but either way

that's the end of the film uh it was

directed by robert zemeckis

who obviously did the back to the future

trilogy who framed roger rabbit forest

gump

he wrote 1941 with bob gale he's

currently remaking the witches

i hope that's not too cg oh the royal

doll

yes oh interesting i think that the

other one

is perfect yeah it's really good i don't

know about perfect

but it's good and i have i think

angelica houston

was phenomenal yeah it was great in that

movie the writer here was bob gale

obviously co-written with robert semecus

he also wrote the back to the futures he

wrote the story for bordello of blood

which is fun that's the second tales

from the crypt feature

he was also the creator of the back to

the future animated series

which uh i hadn't really heard of before

i went into like a deep dive of it

oh it's on my plex yeah it's got it's

got chris lloyd mary steinberg and

thomas wilson all did voices in every

episode

actually chris lloyd appears in the live

action segments but there's

some in every episode apparently peyton

reed was a writer for that show

who went on to direct the ant-man movies

and uh

jules is in every episode of the show

but vern is hardly in any of them right

i think it's also important to know that

this idea was kind of sparked i think i

think you touched about it

that this sparked an idea was sparked by

spielberg and

uh john john millius who i guess they

kind of

sort of not bought the rights out of but

asks the right's permission

to make this movie because they're too

busy so i feel like

we should include them as is at least

story by and they got ep

credits on this too yeah kurt russell

was rudy russo

he followed in the footsteps of his

father bing russell appearing in a lot

of tv throughout his childhood

in 1966 walt disney's final words were

kurt russell and that year kurt russell

signed a 10-year deal with walt disney

studios

and appeared in a long line of disney

releases he's had a fruitful partnership

with

several directors like john carpenter

and quentin tarantino

he's proven his longevity with major

parts and current franchises like fast

and the furious and

marvel cinematic universe and we

actually share a credit on the hateful

eight

which i handled the digital dailies

processing on

and kurt is a class act jack warden was

roy l fuchs and luke fuchs

he was juror number seven in 12 angry

men he was big ben

healy and problem child he's pops and

dirty work

and we'll see him next as mike tarkanian

and the great muppet caper i i've never

seen him

young and seeing him as old as he was in

this one in 1980 and is like

god how old was he in bulworth well i

think they they dressed him up to make

him look a lot older than he was

that's true garrett graham was jeff we

just had him as the older brother in

home movies

which i think is still at the bottom of

my list for the year he's

beef and phantom of the paradise he

plays phil simpson in child's play too

and he also has writing credits on a few

of the 1980s twilight zones

and also story and additional dialogue

credits on

oliver and company the little mermaid

and mickey's prince and the popper short

because he did voice work on those i

also like him as a

franklin sherman uh jay sherman's father

oh yes he's like crazy rich father yeah

frank mcrae was jim the mechanic here he

was captain doyle and loaded weapon one

and basically the same character as

decker and last action hero

which is obviously a reference to uh the

co-writer of shane black on a bunch of

movies he was sharky and licensed to

kill

he played harry noble and batteries not

included and he also played as a

defensive tackle with the chicago bears

for six games in 1967.

joe flaherty is sam slayton and uh he's

an sctv regular

he's the guy who says jackass he played

abe's down on clone high and

say what movie he says that in jackass

uh he was also the dad on freaks and

geeks

and we had him earlier this year and

nothing but no

not nothing but trouble we had him

earlier this year and nothing personal

as one of the cops from the innocent

gasoline fight yeah and

uh and he's also in another zemeckis

movie

back to the future part two where he is

the deliverer of the western union

telegram

to marty out in the middle of nowhere we

had a little bit going as to whether

marty would actually be here looks like

i lost

uh david l lander played freddy paris

he's probably best known as squiggy of

laverne and shirley's

lenny and squiggy he also plays smartass

in roger rabbit

no there's magus yep michael mckean

plays

eddie winslow probably not

best known as lenny from laverne and

shirley's lenny and squiggy

he was mr green and clue he's lots of

christopher guest stuff basically every

christopher guest movie he was david st

hubbards and this is spinal tap he's

chuck mcgill brother of jimmy mcgill aka

saul goodman on better call saul

he plays morris fletcher on a bunch of

x-files episodes

yeah that which is a really fun

character yeah and he's also fred ritter

in short circuit two

and the pool boy and earth girls are

easy uh i just

i just laugh every time i read that his

name is eddie winslow

just thinking of flaming matters harry

northup

played carmine he played thomas burke

in tom horne this year he plays doughboy

and taxi driver and mr bimmel in silence

of the lambs

alfonso are played manuel he played juan

in romancing the stone for zemeckis and

the sequel came from uh alligator

director louis teague

he directed a walk in the clouds and

like water for chocolate really

yeah he played bandito number one in

jodorowsky's el topo

he's the voice of papa julio and coco

and he has a plethora of other roles but

he will always be el guapo in my heart

al lewis was judge harrison he was

grandpa on the monster

it was like and i was surprised um when

i looked at his credits

for the monsters um it had it from like

1964 to 2004 yeah

which i thought was weird but even in

that large of time span of like reboots

and recastings

it's only 72 episodes that's weird um

at least for grandpa yeah uh i imagine

there would be some that he wasn't in

but uh i just thought it was like man i

feel like that show probably was on for

a long time but 72 episodes doesn't seem

like that long yeah that is weird

woodrow parfray was mr gertner uh we've

said before he was maximus and planet of

the apes

he was clusit and papillon or clusio

and papillon probably mr jaffe and dirty

harry

and we previously had him as wc hannan

and carney

and dr canterbury in bronco billy to

circus movies that came out around the

same time

dub taylor played tucker he was wayne's

coat in the wild bunch

laughlin in the getaway and ivan moss in

bonnie and clyde

wendy joe sperber was nervous nona the

student driver

she plays dr tina gasco in bachelor

party and linda mcfly

older sister of marty but fly in uh back

to the front i couldn't figure out it

was her voice

yeah that i was like i know this girl's

voice and i couldn't place it

mark mcclure was uh heavy-duty dubois

and uh he plays jimmy olsen in the

original superman quadrology and

supergirl

also a voice that i recognized

immediately and he's also dave mcfly

uh another sibling of marty's in back to

the future

dick miller plays man in bed this was

his second movie

for us after the cop at the beginning of

happy hooker goes hollywood

and sadly this was his last film he only

had the two he's definitely not in

hundreds and hundreds of movies

uh he and we just lost him fairly

recently uh rita taggart

was the woman in the bed she played a

reporter in 1941

she was rita djakovic in the china

syndrome

and we just had her as thelma in die

laughing which is

one of the women from the the evil team

the evil team

the team that we're trying to steal the

monkey back from

the kid betty thomas plays bunny

betty thomas anyone she has a few acting

credits

but toward the end of the 80s she moved

behind the camera to direct

the brady bunch movie private parts

eddie murphy's dr doolittle and our

friend andrea

had the pleasure of working with her on

the squeak wool which she directed

but yeah i was i was laughing so hard

when i was like wait she was that charac

she was this

the stripper wearing bunny ears on the

car with kurt russell in this movie

lastly we have sanford gibbons who was

the cop at the roadblock

he played father feeney in tombstone

with kurt russell

and he'll be back later this year as a

desk sergeant in night kill

uh i wanted to bring up somebody not

because they have a lot of credits

just because their name is wonderful uh

the woman who played the

wife of the family with a lot of kids

yeah the actress's name is

jan sandwich that's really amazing i

love it

and she's only been in a handful of

things one of which was a

something please tell me it was a

sandwich commercial no it was a tv

series called

probe uh

and i married wyatt erp small

beautifully moving parts and wait she

married kids

kurt russell dead kids sorry oh my god

that's that movie that short is called

dead kids

wait is it a short or is it a feature

it's a short called dead kids because

there's also a movie called dead kids

oh in the 80s oh this is a short in

2016. uh but another credit i wanted to

bring up uh was the casting director

uh because i think that that's a really

uh thing that we don't usually i

celebrated

uh but uh because i was just looking at

like the casting of this movie and the

casting of this

oh it's like 1941 which makes sense

right it's zemeckis

uh but casting of tom horn and then

other cool things like robocop

uh heathers uh robocop ii exorcist three

cuffs which is a fun weird christian

slater movie i don't know

and uh so and the china syndrome because

like you mentioned uh

yeah and uh so i just thought it was

interesting that she obviously has a

group of people that she likes to cast

what is her name sally dennison

okay this is an enjoyable film there

there's plot holes and there's

i mean you can tell it's an early work

from somebody but it has a lot of fun

energy and there's a lot of fun jokes

going on all over the place in it this

is the first time i've seen it believe

it or not oh really yeah i had not seen

this film before have you seen it before

definitely yeah oh yeah no i hadn't seen

it but um i like this one

um it's for sure a thumbs up for me

because uh

it's just every the the cass is just

non-stop great people everybody in the

whole cast is amazing

and uh for this to be it's not his first

feature right so becca's had a feature

before this

um i thought it was his first i think

it's a googling

slowly googling a short short shirt yeah

he had a feature

before this it's called uh i want to

hold your hand

right but this is definitely early for

him

and uh it's cool to see uh how

how much of a skill he already had

directing

like the first shot being like a long

crane shot that moves down even if

there's

a tiny screw-up in it like it's just a

fun way to shoot the scene

and uh he cared about where the camera

was and stuff that early but i think it

comes across as really fun

and it feels like a nice tribute to like

the western like

cattle wrestling movies but it's just

you replaced all the

the cattle with cars in the movie and it

just feels like

two people arguing in the west because

it's all in the desert still but they

just remade it as a modern day movie

and that's fun to me yeah i mean

there's a lot of elements in here that i

think are all right but i don't know

that i would

tell anybody to go out and watch this

movie yeah so i don't know that i gave

it a thumbs up all right

richard what about you thumbs up thumbs

down um i i do agree

with with jesse on this uh that it's

wasn't quite what i wanted it to be i

guess sure

um i am giving it an up uh it was

i still had a good time but i can see

that this was still very kind of rough

around the edges kind of movie

yeah and obviously his his next movies

would be

much more much better celebrated like i

to me romancing the stone is much better

than this film yeah romancing the stone

like

that franchise could almost have been

another indiana jones

yeah level like series yeah

i love that movie yeah the both of them

are great actually i even i even like

the jewel of the nile but uh yeah what

about letterboxed

so i have it um just above the nude bomb

uh but just below the stuntman

just below the nude bomb no just above

the noodle above the nude bombs

but below the stunt man which puts it in

the mid-20s i think

somewhere here okay for the year richard

um i'm actually putting it up

despite what i said i'm putting it

pretty high

i'm actually going to put this between

last married couple

and little miss marker which puts it

5 10 15 about 23.

it's much lower for me um i i enjoyed it

but uh for me this goes just below north

sea hijack

and just above die laughing which um

it's in 24th place we all had it right

around the same place

yeah yeah well i moved it at the last

second

he didn't want to be i didn't i didn't

even give it a thumbs up and i put it

higher than you no

yeah i think that's everything for this

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next time when we'll be discussing the

big red one

which imdb describes like so a hardened

sergeant

and four core members of his infantry

unit try to survive world war ii

as they move from battle to battle

throughout europe we leave you now with

the trailer for the big red one

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there probably wasn't a worse way to

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don't panic it's a pushback

there was griff vinci sam

and johnson

and then there was the sergeant

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he made the patch they wore on their

shoulders

he made the big red one you know the 24

guys

sergeant's four horsemen

this is the big red one

combat rejects

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i can't murder anybody

how do you like the book damn good

i wrote it babyface vinci oh

hey farmer johnson

i think i'd like the most beautiful

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what baby let's go

this is the incredible story that samuel

fuller has waited 35 years to tell

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these are the boys of the big red one

they're not boys anymore

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