IMDb plot summary: Facing hanging, a bank robber makes a deal with the corrupt banker to avoid execution in exchange for a dirty assignment.
Directed by Hal Needham. Starring Kirk Douglas, Ann-Margret, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Paul Lynde.
This is a thoroughly bizarre movie, primarily because it is clearly a tribute to the Looney Tunes characters of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, played here by Kirk Douglas and Arnold Schwarzenegger respectively. And when I say tribute, I mean... they play the Looney Tunes theme at the end. Douglas paints a giant tunnel on a mountain which Schwarzenegger then drives his wagon through. It is basically just a live-action Road Runner cartoon, and while you'd think that'd be a lot of fun, it sadly mostly doesn't work. The jokes are nearly all pretty flat, there's some very uncomfortable scenes of redface, and the ending is... I'd say nearly incomprehensible. But it's kind of a marvel this thing existed at all, and considering I went in knowing nothing about it and thought it was just your typical western, it definitely yielded some surprised shrieks of delight when I realized what it was going for, even if it doesn't meet the high bar it sets for itself.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Villain < The Beach
The Villain < Horton Hears a Who
The Villain > VeggieTales: The Star of Christmas
The Villain < VeggieTales: Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush
The Villain < Johnny Tremain
The Villain < Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
The Villain > Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
The Villain > The Monuments Men
The Villain > Alice in Wonderland (2010
The Villain > Wyatt Earp
The Villain < Pinocchio (1940)
Final spot: #2859 out of 3324, or 14%.
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