| Weird Wednesday - October 15, 2008 |
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REDNECK Rated R; 89min; Director:Silvio Narizzano (1975) Telly Savalas and Franco Nero play a pair of wisecracking screw-ups who botch a jewel robbery, kill some people and accidentally take a young boy hostage. Pretty soon they’re tutoring the kid on the finer points of being a complete psychopath. Savalas, never noted for his actorly restraint, is like a runaway downhill ham-train as the ruthless killer Memphis while the nattily mustachio’d Nero is a bit more subdued as Mosquito, the (relatively) sympathetic one. Along the way there’s a side-trip into what-the-fuck land with a bit of the old inappropriateness we’ve come to know and love so well. Hard-edged, violent, idiosyncratic... not your usual Italian crime movie. I’ll be quaffing tumblers full of J&B Scotch at this one so stay out of my way and don’t be grabbing on me! (Lars)
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