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Cannonball [DVD]

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David Carradine (Actor), Bill McKinney (Actor), Paul Bartel (Director, Writer) Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel, Gerrit Graham, Robert Carradine
  • Directors: Paul Bartel
  • Writers: Paul Bartel, Don Simpson
  • Producers: Gustave M. Berne, Peter Cornberg, Run Run Shaw, Samuel W. Gelfman
  • Format: PAL
  • Subtitles: French
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Cinema Club
  • DVD Release Date: 5 April 2004
  • Run Time: 93 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000C24GH
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 78,689 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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An illegal auto race from Los Angeles to New York is taking place that promises the winner $100,000. Coy 'Cannonball' Buckman (David Carradine), the race leader, drags his girlfriend Linda (Veronica Hamel) along for the ride. But Cannonball's nemesis Terry McMillan (Carl Gottlieb) barrels along in a big, black Plymouth, trying to outsmart Cannonball at every turn and exit ramp.

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4.0 out of 5 starsAhh, seventies muscle car heaven :)
By mule4468 on 5 Feb. 2014
Format: DVD
Many, (and I do mean many) years ago, my mum and dad took my bro' and I to the cinema. Showing at the single screen Odeon in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire at the time was a double feature "The Giant Spider Invasion" and Carquake or to give it's "real" American name Cannonball. I believe both were the old "A" rating, long before PG, 12, 15 etc. It was the seventies after all.

Ok..... The thing I most remember about the film was that David Carradine was racing in a bright red Pontiac Firebird. It crashed and he found a green Mustang, and the "Villain"/competition drove a black car, that's about it :P

Well obviously there is a bit more than that in it, but I was eight years old at the time, (I'm now 45 so memories are a bit fague)

Well I had a notion, to see if I could find the film. I searched under "Carquake" but I kept being taken to Cannonball, "No, that's a comedy with Burt Reynolds, I think?"; well actually no. Carquake/cannonball was the serious version of the infamous Cannonball race and basically was about Carradine in a car race across America. I'm guessing he was chosen as he had also appeared in the original Death Race 2000 as Frankenstein (he had that many crashes, he was basically built back up from spare parts), but that's another film.

His character "Coy" Buckman a former race driver, has recently been released from prison (drunk driving) and is offered a contract by a racing company if he should win the race. His rival is also given the offer, so it's basically a car race between the two drivers, with a sprinkling of other race drivers/cars during the race.

Coy drives an early 1970's "Pontiac Trans-Am", poss.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsAnd They're Off!
By Quackser on 14 Oct. 2009
Format: DVD
A truly demented film. None of the pieces really fit together, but they're very interesting pieces and a reminder of just how gloriously gonzo movies could be in the seventies. Paul Bartel wanted to make comedies (albeit rather strange ones like "Private Parts"). But after the success of "Death Race 2000" he found himself recast as an action director and was prevailed upon to make this entry in the "Goodtime Car Race Across The Country" genre. So his unhappiness with the assignment is constantly at war with his professional approach to the material, resulting in a movie that combines yee-haw good ol' boy schtick with a real, unblinking nihilism. Among the racers are David Carradine, Bill McKinney and Mary Woronov. Among the people they meet are Dick Miller, Martin Scorsese and Gerritt Graham. It's all sort of like a post-Watergate "Whacky Races", but an episode during which the cold realisation gradually dawns that, this time, Dastardly and Muttley might get killed.
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5.0 out of 5 starsMemory lane..
By Ollie on 8 Nov. 2011
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
Growing up in the 80's was a good thing because it meant my father had films like this on VHS.. A must have for any classic car or film lover.
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