 |
Available on DVD! To buy, click on link(s) below and help keep this site afloat (commissions earned) |
|
Always make sure of DVD-compatibility!!!
|
|
|
 |
|
Trying to escape arrest in some hick town, cowboys JD (Jerry Reed) and
Will (Tom Selleck) catch the next freight train, that just happens to take
them to Nashville. Actually, they are completely broke, but their
acquaintance Lonnie (Randy Powell) offers to let them stay in his posh
apartment while he's away on business, if they "pick up a
package" for him that is. They can't believe their luck, so they
don't ask questions Lonnie is a private eye, and for some reason, JD and
Will think it's a good idea to take over his business when he's out and
accept a case from Kate (Morgan Fairchild), who wants them to find her
sister Carla (also Morgan Fairchild), an aspiring country singer. Their
trail leads them to a wax museum owner (Bob Hannah) who was in love with
her and paid her her first demo, to a sleazy nightclub owner (Joseph
Burke), who secured her a handful of gigs, country singer Woody Stone
(Claude Akins), whose girlfriend she has been to advance in the industry,
and to brothel madam Peg (Lucille Benson). While JD and Will are on
Carla's trail though, someone is on their trail, trying to off them -
rather unsuccessfully. Finally, their trail leads them to Lonnie himself,
who's obviously in league with Kate - who turns out to be none other than
Carla in a wig. Turns out Carla and Lonnie faked Carla's dead and made
Woody Stone believe he has killed her. He has paid a fortune in blackmail
money (the package our heroes had to pick up at the beginning of the
film), but then he figured it would be cheaper to have the blackmailer
killed - and he mistook our boys for the blackmailers of course. JD and
will decide to use the package (still in their possession) to lure all
those involved to a certain location where they fight it out, confessing
everything in the process - and all into the ears of the police ... Rather
weak crime comedy of the country bumkins turned city detectives-variety
that suffers from a weak story full of plotholes, an over-emphasis on
country music - to a point where the film comes to a screeching halt for
just another musical performance -, and a rather weak premise to begin
with. And whoever thought to give the decidedly unfunny Jerry Reed the
funny man part and have Tom Selleck in the straight man role was ... well,
wrong. This film was extended into a very short-lived series in 1981,
but Tom Selleck, who had by then already found better use for his talents
on Magnum P.I., was replaced by Geoffrey Scott.
|
amazon.co.uk
amazon.de
eThaiCD.com
find Concrete Cowboys at adultvideouniverse.com
