Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Scott LeBrun Eddie Moore (Stephen McHattie) is an amiable drifter passing through the town of Rockfield. Predictably, he gets harassed by the snake-mean local sheriff, a man named Rankin (Lonny Chapman). His day is brightened, however, when he meets lovely young Dairy Queen employee Cam Johnson (Ms. Lenz). They hit it off and go sneaking onto the estate of the local bigwig (Will Geer) after whom the town is named. From their vantage point they are able to see the sheriff - who, naturally, is also flat out corrupt - shoot and badly wound a greedy deputy (Dennis Redfield) who wanted in on the action. So Eddie and Cam have to spend the balance of the movie on the lam, dodging bullets fired by the sheriff and his cronies, while trying to find a sympathetic pair of ears.As one can see, this is very much formula-driven drive-in car chase and car crash fare. The characters are for the most part clichés, especially the one-dimensional villainous sheriff. Fortunately, the good thing that can often be said for exploitation entertainment of this variety is its unpretentious nature. It *does*, ultimately, show its viewers a reasonably good time, with plenty of pedal to the metal action and enough explosions to keep a persons' attention from wandering too much. McHattie and especially Lenz are watchable as the hero and heroine, and Chapman is just right as their persistent, nasty nemesis. Geer is too briefly seen, and under-utilized, but does a fine job nonetheless. The supporting cast includes such familiar faces as Jack Murdock, the ubiquitous and always welcome Dick Miller, and Paul Linke, but the movie really belongs to the excellent Eddie Albert, playing attorney Alex Warren, who decides to take the kids' case.Executive produced by Roger Corman, and produced by his wife Julie, this features a flavourful bluegrass score by Don Peake and a catchy ditty titled "Detroit Man" sung by Phil Everly. It's pretty much average for its genre, but still proves to be engaging enough to watch.Six out of 10.

Robert J. Maxwell My aunt used to paint these oils of things like Maine lighthouses. The canvas boards came with the outlines of all the objects already on it. Each space was filled with a number. If a given space on the canvas, say the sky, was labeled "9", she'd fill in the space with a color from the little tube labeled "9. Blue." She was very precise. No golden, end-of-summer wheat field ever shimmered indistinctly against the hazy horizon. The Number 6 paint ended sharply and the Number 7 paint began.Aunt Olga could have directed this movie. There may not be a single convention or cliché neglected. McHattie and Lenz are falsely accused by Lonnie Chapman, as Sheriff Rankin, of murdering a deputy in a small California town. The town and its boss, Will Geer, make a federal case out of it, as if the two fugitives were mass murderers. They even draw in a "gang of terrorists" and "commies".The movie is almost entirely one long car chase. Bullets fly. Lenz grits her teeth behind the wheel. McHattie, in the shotgun seat, purses his lips and looks bemused, as well he might. Eddie Albert is in here but doesn't appear until the movie is half over -- and don't blink.Every car chase is undercranked, meaning the cars are filmed in accelerated motion. They zip around curves, plow through stop signs, have their tops surgically removed by the eighteen-wheelers under which they slide. This convention dates back to the Keystone Cops but was almost uniformly observed in car chases. The first time I realized that a car could roll off the road at an ordinary speed was when the Volkswagon tips over in "Wild Strawberries." But when there is a motor accident of any kind, the film toggles into slow motion so the viewer can enjoy the spectacle of a cop car tumbling into a ditch, snapping off the open door of a parked vehicle, or smashing into a brick wall.I don't see much reason to get into the plot or many of its elements, such as the rollicking smith-kicker banjo and fiddle tune that goes with the action. If it's not Number 9 Blue, it's Number 2 Earth Brown. You've seen all the hues before.Stephen McHattie is an actor of slight talent. Kay Lenz, ditto, but Lenz has something going for her -- an odd beauty, a big grin set in a wide jaw that inspires admiration and a little trepidation. (Those teeth.) She has a fine figure too, sassy where it ought to be, and it reassures me that I'm not a woman trapped in a man's body, only a perfectly normal human being. Huck. Huck. Excuse me. HACK. Whew! That was a fur ball from hell.Don't miss it if you can.

jotix100 Not having a clue about this film was about, we decided to take a chance. It was produced by legendary Roger Corman, a man who knew how to pack his films with a lot of action. "Moving Violation" is a film that will not disappoint fans of that genre as there is no let up from the start.The young drifter, Eddie, meets a bored Dairy Queen attendant, Cam, and asks her out. She decides to take him to a secret place where they can access the swimming pool in the estate of the rich Mr. Rickfield. They witness as the corrupt sheriff of the town shoots one of his deputies. That triggers a chase across the state as Eddie and Cam are followed through highways and small towns because they know what the sheriff did. They enlist the help of Alex Warren, an attorney that believes them, but ultimately can't do much for them.Charles Dubbin directed with an eye for the action. Stephen McHattie and Kay Lenz play the couple being chased. Lonny Chapman is perfect as the criminal sheriff and Eddie Albert makes a great Alex Warren.The film is non-stop car chasing and will delight the viewer who doesn't expect anything but just pure action.

G-Man-25 A wildly uneven but watchable combination of violent melodrama and car-chase comedy, about an unassuming young couple who stumble onto a murder and end up on the run, framed by the redneck sheriff who actually committed the crime. This is a 1970's drive-in picture, made to order. The comedy and violence tend to clash and cancel each other out, but the performances are good and the action well-staged for such a low budget film. Worth a peek on a slow night, but nothing to stay up for.