Jamie Lee Curtis and Stacy Keach |
Pat Quid (Stacy Keach of Butterfly) is a truck driver in Australia hauling a load of pig carcasses. He begins to suspect that a man in a green van may have done away with a woman that this other man shacked up with in a hotel, As his suspicions mount, he picks up a gal named Pamela (Jamie Lee Curtis), who is seemingly taken away by that man in the van. Or did she just shack up with this other guy of her own free will? Quid is torn between forgetting the whole thing or obsessively following the van to find out for sure what's up. Complicating matters is the fact that the police are beginning to suspect Quid of being a serial killer ...
Stacy Keach |
The film does boast an exciting, suspenseful and very well-executed climax involving a tight alleyway, Quid's over-sized truck, the van and the man inside it, and two cops, one of whom is crawling under the big truck in an attempt to get to the front of it and the fight that's ensuing there. Everett De Roche's script is unpredictable, and it does have touches that could be considered "Hitchcockian," although the movie is never on the level of the best of Hitchcock. This did, however, help Franklin land the plum assignment of directing Psycho II.
Verdict: Too many loose ends, implausible moments, and a pretty weak Jamie Lee. **1/2.
2 comments:
I like Keach and I love Jamie Lee, but this was when she was young and very inexperienced, I gather. Would still like to see it. Curtis is wonderful in every film I saw her in starting with A Fish Called Wanda, including all those Halloween horror films.
-Chris
Don't forget her latest one. I figure she'll be in her last "Halloween" movie when she's about ninety, LOL!
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