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Car Crash
Carrera Salvaje / Ein Turbo räumt den Highway auf

Italy/Spain/Mexico 1980
produced by
Giovanni di Clemente for Cleminternationale Cinematografica, Hesperia Films, Scorpio Film Productions
directed by Anthony M. Dawson (= Antonio Margheriti)
starring Joey Travolta, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Ana Obregón, John Steiner, Ricardo Palacios, Sal Borgese, Douglas Sandoval, Carlos Romano
written by Massimo de Rita, Marco Tullio Giordana, music by Giosy Capuano, Mario Capuano

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Paul (Joey Travolta, John's less successful brother) is the champion of crash car racing, winning race after race, much to the dismay of mobster Bronski (Ricardo Palacios), who is always betting against him (though it's unclear why) & who didn't succeed in bribing Paul, neither. So for the next race, the prolific Highway Crash, he takes more drastic action, ruining his car & threatening Paul & his mechanic Nick (Vittorio Mezzogiorno) not to show up at the race.

But Paul & Nick are not 2 gzuys to be taken down that easily, & despite not having any kind of car, they try to get to the race by train, & after they even have to get off the train because it is swarming with Bronski's goons, they happen to stumble across one of Nick's friends who just hjappens to have a perfect racecar in his garage he offers them for the race (my, some guys have all the luck).

But of course in their new turbo, they are soon pursued by Bronski's goons again, who desperately want to get them off the road, & somehow lovely archeologist Janice (Ana Obregón) gets between lines, so Paul & Nick decide to take her along for the ride. For Janice, our heroes also make a detour, because she wants to sell a little Mayan statue to Kirby (John Steiner), a rich and eccentric collector, but he, after challenging Paul to a car race (& losing it of course) tries to pull a fast one on them, when he destorys Janice's statue because it looked too much like one of his own ... & then his statue wouldn't be all that unique anymore.

However, Paul, Nick & Janice make a quick getaway, with Janice managing to nick Kirby's statue, so Kirby soon picks up pursuit as well, but when he sees Paul outsmarting Bronski's pursuers with great regularity - among other things, Paul in his turbo has to fight a dozen of mighty trucks in a quarry - Kirby decides to switch sides & help them ...

The day of the race, Paul, Nick & Janice have only just made it there & finished the repairs on the car, when they are barred from participating because they can't afford the entrance fee: 20.000 Dollars. So Janice does the only sensible thing & sells the little Mayan statue back to Kirby to afford the starting money, & Paul does indeed have an excellent start ... much to the dismay of Bronski, who wants to save his hide stealing the betting money & making a neat getaway, but Nick manages to stop him, beats him up & forces him to watch Paul win ...

 

Around the mid-70's, a new genre, the car chase comedy, did emerge with movies like Grand Theft AutoDeath Race 2000, Cannonball & the Smokie and the Bandit-movies, which pretty much took the classic car chase, a centerpiece of many action-movies out of its narrative context, & made the chase into the narration itself - which of course makes up for only a very feeble plot (& as a result, car chase comedies more often than not just didn't work).

By 1980, this short lived genre was pretty much in full swing, it's most prominent contestant from that year being probably the overrated Blues Brothers, while in the following year Cannonball Run would pretty much sum up everything bad about the genre.

In 1980, the Italians - who back then were always quick to jump any bandwagon - would do their own car chase comedy, Car Crash, which like so many other movies would be very weak on story, full of bad jokes, & while the action was competently handled, any tension that would have made the film interesting was totally missing, mainly because it did offer little more than one-dimensional characters, who are quite difficult to identify with, going through a series of uninteresting but unbelievable plottwists.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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