Director: Daniel Haller Writers: Mick Benderoth, Mote Stettin, William Hjortsberg, Lois Luger
Cast: Dirk Benedict, Tanya Tucker, Terri Nunn, Lane Smith, Sally Kirkland, Dennis Patrick, David Hayward
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase – Year: 1977 Company: New World Pictures Runtime: 90′
Director: Michael Pressman Writers: David Kirkpatrick, Mark Rosin
Cast: Claudia Jennings, Jocelyn Jones, Johnny Crawford, Tara Strohmeler, Miles Watkins, Nancy Bieler
Smokey Bites the Dust – Year: 1981 Company: New World Pictures Runtime: 87′
Director: Charles B. Griffith Writers: Max Apple, Brian Williams
Cast: Jimmy McNichol, Janet Julian, Walter Barnes, John Blyth Barrymore, Robert Beecher, Mel Welles
Disc company: Shout! Factory Video: 480p (1.78:1), 480i (4:3) Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles: None Disc: 1 x DVD5 / 1 x DVD9 Release Date: 04/05/2011 Product link: Amazon.com
Reviewed from a screener provided by Shout! Factory LLC.
Shout! Factory is at it again, pushing my exploitation buttons with another bargain-priced cult film package. This time it’s a whopping triple-bill collection of New World actioners revolving around that staple of the genre – explosive car chases.
Lt. Starbuck turns back country whiskey runner for 1980′s Georgia Peaches, a semi-serious made for TV car chase and criminal comedy originally produced with the possibility of a television series in mind. Georgia Peaches follows ‘shine runner Dusty and his friends, mechanic Sue Lynn (Berlin’s Terri Nunn) and singer Lorette (real-life country singer Tanya Tucker), as they are blackmailed into investigating a bootleg cigarette operation and forced into action against a southern crime syndicate headed by ice cold Sally Kirkland.
