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Director: Rod Amateau
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From Time Out Film Guide
Frantic goings-on during a performance of Disaster '76, a movie showing at a Texas drive-in theatre (The Alamo), are the promising ingredients of this cod catastrophe movie. That they constitute no more than an unsatisfying hodge-podge is less the fault of Bob Peete's indulgent, idiosyncratic story (two engaging amateur crooks bungle hold-up in theatre concession stand), than the frenetic pace of its execution and Amateau's overriding concern with busy narrative mechanics. A successful directorial debut demands more than incidental charms and a string of formulary sight gags in a by now thoroughly overworked parodic style.Author: JPy
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- Posted on Nov 07 2008 16:20 I think you've overanalyzed a bit. It's no classic, but its watchable and entertaining enough. It's also a time capsule in a way, an excellent snapshot of the era. Anyone interested in seeing the drive-in experience in its heyday should check this out.
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Cast & crew
Director: Rod Amateau
Producer: Alex Rose, Tamara Asseyev
Cast: Lisa Lemole, Glenn Morshower, Gary Cavagnaro, Billy Milliken, Lee Newsom, Regan Kee full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 96 mins
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