You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. With Nick Nolte, Don Johnson, Robin Mattson, Robert Viharo. Josh Courter is a Power Automedia freelancer with a serious passion for anything custom.
Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.
Two small-town young men, drag racer Bo and mechanic Harley, embark on a road trip from Georgia to California with the intention of entering the Grand National Championship drag races in California. It was re-released by Orion Pictures in the late-1990s. Trouble greets them in the form of a runaway waitress who insists on traveling with them, a group of high school boys who don't like losing a street race, and a police sergeant who is determined to throw them in jail. There are no featured audience reviews for Return to Macon County (The Last Escape) at this time. Most likely this motor would have only be capable of pulling 15s in the quarter, not 8 second passes.
Rods, classics, sleds, and even motorcycles provide inspiration for Josh along with his passion for automotive history. attempt to escape from the girls' mobster uncle with $400,000 in stolen loot, and meet nefarious characters while dodging a bickering pair of enforcers. Set in 1958, the film stars then little-known actors Nick Nolte (as Bo) and Don Johnson (as Harley).
Perhaps the car is able to do this thanks to its unexplained “injection.” The two brothers are joined by this weird psycho chick as they stop in Macon County (decades before its overrun with walkers) for some street racing and later they are chased by a crooked sheriff.The real specs of the ’57 Chevy are a Paxton Blown fuel injected 283 under the hood mated to a 3-speed manual. This film was written and directed by Richard Compton, who was also responsible for the earlier film. His partner in this drag race movie was Don Johnson as the mechanic who knew everything there was to know about making a hot rod go faster than any of the local hicks residing in Macon County.Looking for some great streaming picks? Two rebellious sisters and a crooked P.I. Turns out, the car was tucked away in a garage in rural Kentucky and for the most part remains unchanged – its flamed yellow paint job is still there though it’s somewhat faded.
By some miracle, this ’57 Chevy is capable of pulling 8.7 second runs on skinny bias ply tires.
3 of 5 people found this review helpful. I am a big fan of Nick Nolte's body of work and although he was playing a 20 something hot-rodder when he was in his mid 30's he certainly looked young and naive. Like many Hollywood cars, the flamed ’57’s whereabouts where unknown for decades. Use the HTML below. Two young men in a fast car travel through Georgia in the summer of 1958 en route to enter the National Championship drag races in California. Return to Macon County is a 1975 American action drama film and a sequel to the 1974 drive-in classic Macon County Line.
But it's not long before the innocent-minded friends realize this journey will bring them more than they bargained for. It starred Nick Nolte and Don Johnson as two buds who spend the summer of 1958 trying to get to the NHRA Nationals in California, where they will race their banana yellow & flamed ’57 Chevy 210 (which keeps burning oil).
In Macon County they pick up a wild girl who brings trouble and attract the ire of a local cop.
Directed by Richard Compton. Three bargemen on the Mississippi River find themselves mixed up in a kidnapping and hijacking plot. A juror on a murder case begins to believe that the man on trial is innocent of the crime - and then discovers that the real killer is her own husband. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? The life and friendship between the icons of the Beat Generation - Neal Cassady, Carolyn Cassady and Jack Kerouac. Two young men in a fast car travel through Georgia in the summer of 1958 en route to enter the National Championship drag races in California. In Macon County they pick up a wild girl who brings trouble and attract the ire of a local cop. The car looks like it has been sitting, without being driven for a long time as the ceiling vinyl is hanging, and the car is covered in a layer of dust and bird crap.We aren’t sure what the owner plans to do with this car; perhaps he plans on getting it running again to compete in the Hot Rod Heritage Nationals in California.
This is light fair that I found entertaining. Some of you may be old enough to remember Return to Macon County, the 1975 drive-in B-movie hit.
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