Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw

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She was a carhop who wanted to be a country singer.
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He was a hustler who dreamed he was Billy the Kid.
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And the Dalton said it made me a criminal.
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Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, starring Marjoe Gortner and Lynda Carter.
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Lyle, make love to me tonight.
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For a while,
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they had something.
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And then...
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We're not talking about actors.
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We mean a real monster.
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I brought her back.
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She'll live and I'll get her another body.
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I know they're gonna catch me but don't let anyone see me like that! Please, doctor!
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Help me!
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Biologically speaking, it's a primary importance that man should want to mate.
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Hey, that's right!
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You don't get all your kicks from surfing, do you?
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We want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And we want to get loaded.
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You think you're gonna make a slave of the world?
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I'll see you in Hell first!
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The American International Podcast.
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Are you ready?
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It's once again time for the American International Podcast.
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I'm Cheryl Lightfoot.
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And I'm Jeff Markin.
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And today we're looking at a Wonder Woman and a So-So Guy with Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw from 1976.
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Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw was produced and directed by Mark L. Lester, written by Vernon Zimmerman
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and co-produced by Lynn Ross and Steve Brody for Caldwell Productions.
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Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw stars Marjoe Gortner as Lyle Wheeler, Lynda Carter as Bobbie Jo Baker,
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Jesse Vint as Slick Callahan, Merrie Lynn Ross as Pearl Baker, Gerritt Graham as Magic Ray,
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Belinda Balaski as Essie Beaumont, Peggy Stewart as Hattie Baker, Gene Drew as Sheriff Hicks,
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Richard Breeding as Deputy Leroy.
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Also appearing are John Durrrenn as Deputy Gance, Chuck Russell as another Deputy, Virgil Frye as Joe Grant,
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Howard R. Kirk as Mr. Potts, Aly Yoder as Mrs. Potts, Joe Kurtzo as Flat Top, aka "Pinball Hood,"
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Jesse Price as Buford the Grocery Clerk, Kip Allen as the Hotel Manager, James Gammon as Lethersalesman,
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and Jose Toledo as Old Indian.
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Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw opens in the desert and it tells us that the quick draw contest is about to begin.
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Challenger Lyle Wheeler from New Mexico is taking on, I guess the US champion, I didn't write that down,
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it protracted walking towards each other in the center of the street scene and when Lyle pulls out his pistol,
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seeing or hearing some cue that I sure didn't. And since he started first, he wins.
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The whole contest takes about half a second once it started, which if I were in the audience,
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I would consider quite disappointing. After winning, Lyle looks smug as only Marjoe Gortner can.
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Next we see Lyle at a garage having his car looked at. It seems it needs a new water pump.
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It'll cost 2750 with no guarantee and the mechanic will have to run into town to get the parts.
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But Lyle sees he has no other choice but to have it fixed.
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So the mechanic hops into his truck and heads towards town. While Lyle is waiting, another car pulls up.
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The driver comes out and tells Lyle to fill it up and check the fluids, etc.
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But Lyle doesn't work there. He tells the driver that the owner should be back any minute.
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Then the driver starts to brag about his speed wagon. It goes 150 miles an hour.
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And he can cover 18 western states every 12 days. Then he introduces himself.
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Challenger is his name and leather is his game. He's got the alligator, he's got cow hide.
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And he can hook Lyle up with a new jacket. But Lyle isn't interested in a new jacket or anything like that. He rarely has sleeves.
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What he is interested in is that orange Mustang. Although everyone says it's orange, I see yellow.
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But maybe that's just the print.
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Turner offers Lyle a chance to sit behind the wheel and rev the engine of his car.
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All the while telling Lyle that he should get one of these bad boys.
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Don't mind if I do, says Lyle and he peels out of the station.
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Turner rages in coherently as the credits roll and he tries to catch up to his car on foot.
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Speeding a long Lyle drives past a speed trap and the police car gives chase.
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Lyle ignores the siren and keeps going. The chase goes on for a while and eventually Lyle goes off road and comes back behind the police car.
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Then he continually bumps the police car and eventually runs the police car off the road and over a hill.
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The police car crashes but doesn't explode. Lyle pulls over to make sure he didn't kill the cop.
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He sees the officer climb out of his car and smiles.
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Kind of gives a wave and goes back to his car.
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Makes him look like a psychopath. Now we're in a drive-in restaurant where pretty car hop Bobbie Jo serves burgers and fries to some curtains who lightly harass her after they get served.
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But she tells the harasser to henceforth beat his own meat.
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She seems to be used to this kind of situation and it's all part of the job.
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Yeah, it's not cool, but any waitresses used to this situation, I'm sure.
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And then we see that Lyle is there.
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Bobbie Jo goes to commiserate with less pretty and rather short car hop.
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Essie likes the cut of her harassers' jib but Bobbie Jo is not impressed. S.E. says that Bobbie Jo being so particular about guys is no way to land a husband.
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But Bobbie Jo is not interested in husbands. She wants to do more with their life like travel or something.
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Essie thinks that she's dreaming but Bobbie Jo says she'll know him when she sees him.
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It's further, she won't.
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You know, it's Lyle waiting to have his order taken so Essie strolls over to wait on him.
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Lyle asks Essie why she has to do all the work around here. She's off work as he says, knowing who he's referring to.
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Of course she does.
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Lyle asks her name. "Essie," she says. Her name's Essie. Essie? Lyle pointing at Essie.'s name tag.
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Then she gives in.
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Bobbie Jo.
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Now listen, can I take your order?
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Lyle asks Essie to send Bobbie Jo over there.
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She's off work, I said. Now what can I get you?
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Lyle orders a hamburger fries and a Coke with ice in the glass.
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After Essie goes to take his order back, Lyle sees Bobbie Jo now in her regular clothes of a tiny tank top and mom jeans walking out of the restaurant.
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So rather than wait for his food, he immediately follows her in his car.
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Bobbie Jo walks past a musical instrument shop on her way and admires a guitar from outside. Lyle sees this.
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Then he also follows her all the way home and parks outside her house like a creep.
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At her home,Bobbie Jo's mother is sitting around.
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Bobbie Jo's mom is a Jesus freak and secret alcoholic and we see her take a hit off a squeeze bottle full of hard liquor.
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When Bobbie Jo comes in, she says someone from the church stopped by and said that they all need saving.
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And Bobbie Jo's mother agrees with this.
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She's got a daughter who has left home and Bobbie Jo stayed out all night the other night.
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Bobbie Jo denies being with any boy that night, but her mom has not done her ranging her.
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She wants Bobbie Jo to be good and well, you know what that means.
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Bobbie Jo is not swayed.
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Bobbie Jo goes into her room to change and her mother follows her to continue the conversation.
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Bobbie Jo's mother, whose name is Hattie, says that she never would have acted like that when she was young.
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And she doesn't know what she would have done without the Lord.
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But Bobbie Jo says it looks like she gets more peace from booze than from Jesus.
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Hattie snarls at Bobbie Jo to take that back.
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It's getting hot in here says Bobbie Jo and says she's going outside for some air.
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Having changed from one tank top to another tank top, she marches outside and hops straight into the Mustang, waking a dozing lyle.
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Let's go, she says.
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Lyle tries to be sensible.
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You don't even know me, but Bobbie Jo has thrown caution and reason out the window.
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They take off.
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Lyle says that Bobbie Jo reminds me of someone.
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It's not Wonder Woman.
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Linda Ronstadt asks Bobbie Jo.
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No, but Lyle asks if that's her idol.
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Maybe says Bobbie Jo and well, if it is, she's got great taste.
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She asks Lyle who his idol is and he says it's Billy the Kid.
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He didn't take shit from nobody.
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Then Lyle asks Bobbie Jo if she likes country music and unfortunately for the viewing audience, she says yes.
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Bobbie Jo says country music means to her what this car means to Lyle.
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And Lyle is impressed with her probity.
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But Bobbie Jo says that at school she was told that she was deep.
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And now for the first time, but not the last time we hear the song "Those City Lights" by Bobby Bare.
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Learn to love it.
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In a montage, Lyle and Bobbie Jo, who have both changed their clothes, so some time has passed.
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I believe that they actually went shopping when it was off screen, but I'll get into that later.
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Okay.
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They're walking through the desert and to kind of a fort.
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It's a big pile of bricks and do some sort of a structure.
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That's the ruins of some kind of ancient building.
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Then they sit on a blanket among the ruins.
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Bobbie Jo starts to play the guitar, which I also believe they purchased on the shopping trip because she didn't have one before.
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That's right.
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Unless he's surprised you're with it, you bought it after she looked at it and then while he was on his way to stalk her.
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I don't think he would have been able to follow her home if he had done that.
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That's true.
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Good reasoning.
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I think they bought new tops and they bought a guitar.
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I'm surprised they bought anything though, because the movie shows them stealing every single thing that they want.
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Well, maybe they stole it then.
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It wouldn't fit with the plot though.
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Anyway, she's using this guitar and serenading Lyle, asking if he's as lonely as she is.
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Well, the song is "Are You Lonely Like Me?" and it's performed by Lynda Carter.
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She says she wrote it, but IMDb says otherwise.
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Her song ends and Lyle tries to convince Bobbie Jo that she could be a country in western star.
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But Bobbie Jo isn't having it.
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She didn't have voice lessons as a kid and now it's too late.
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Lyle insists that it's never too late.
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Bobbie Jo confesses that she used to pretend to be Minnie Pearl at the Grand Ole Opry when she was a kid.
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She'd even dressed up like her and then she was staying in front of the mirror as if she were on stage.
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Lyle said he used to practice gunfighting the same way.
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He would do themself in the mirror.
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Every draw was a tie.
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And then they repeat that Lynda Carter song only about three minutes after it had just ended, so they can have a sex scene.
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And now it's later the next day.
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That same day, who knows.
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Lyle shows off his beer can shooting skills, so Bobbie Jo doesn't have to look at his boiled lobster skin glowing in the sun.
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He's taken off his shirt so we can all enjoy that.
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He's shooting coarse cans off the hood of an old car and Bobbie Jo isn't pressed for this talent or at least she pretends to use.
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And then he compliments her figure and she says that doesn't mean much, but he says that's what keeps him interested in teaching her how to shoot.
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Now he's going to let her have a shot.
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She misses and Lyle comes behind her and helps her aim in his time. She hits a can.
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Then those city lights plays again.
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As Lyle and Bobbie Jo return to the drive-in to pick up Essie after her shift.
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And once again we have no idea how much time has passed since they met.
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I think this is just one day.
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They each had the clothes they would head on their backs when they met.
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Right, Lyle just stole a car so he didn't have anything with him.
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He had his blanket thing.
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That's it.
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And apparently he has a book.
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Oh right, where was that?
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Stuffed it down the back of his pants?
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Unless he got that on his shopping spree too.
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Or shoplifting spree, whatever.
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So Essie joins them.
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He's sitting in the back seat and asks what they're going to do tonight.
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We says Lyle, where I come from, three is a crowd.
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Little hostile Lyle.
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Essie finds Turner's leather sample book, asks about it and Lyle pretends that he is in the business of selling tan animal hides and they buy it.
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Essie says she thought they were supposed to wear plastic to save the animals.
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Lyle tells her that's a bunch of horse shit.
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He asks her what she thinks she's sitting on.
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“Vinyl?" says Essie.
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"No, that's 100% genuine cow hide."
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Then they go to a bar so Lyle can show off his pinball skills.
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Essie is also shooting pool, but Bobbie Jo is watching Lyle.
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She's cheering him on.
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A while Lyle is showing off his pinball prowess, another guy in the bar sporting a mullet.
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Sees Lyle playing the game and walks over there.
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He bumps into Bobbie Jo and the game, shutting it off.
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And any challenge is Lyle to a contest, even spotting him 10,000 points and offering 2-1 odds on the bet.
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Lyle says he doesn't know the machine is kind of new to him.
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Lyle doesn't have any money though, so the guy offers to spot him 20 bucks, which could mean 40 to Lyle.
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Yoron says Lyle. Essie and a small crowd come over to watch.
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The other guy whose name appears to be Flattop goes first.
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He plays an admirable game and scores 54,700.
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Then Lyle is up. He does better and wins.
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But Flattop isn't quick to pay.
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Flattop asks for best 2-3.
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Lyle tells him that he won fair and square and his old lady isn't like him gambling, so he'd better just pay up.
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Flattop reluctantly pays and Lyle reminds him of the offer to spot him in the 20.
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So Flattop pays that too.
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The 3 of them leave, only to be followed by Flattop and his whole game.
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They don't like cheaters, you see.
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And they're going to take it out on Lyle in the parking lot.
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Both women get in the car and Lyle, with his back to the mob, works the antenna off his car.
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Lyle says that you got me all wrong.
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“No man, we got you dead right!"
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growls one of the guys through his teeth.
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That's one of the best line reads in the whole movie.
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And the fight is on.
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Lyle uses the antenna to slash at and then choke the guy with a bad diction.
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And then hostage style, he drags that guy back over to the driver's side.
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He throws the guy in presumably the antenna aside and hops in the car and speeds off.
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Bobbie Jo asked Lyle why they were so upset.
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After all Lyle beat them parents square.
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Not exactly admits Lyle.
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He pulls on a magnet explains how he had especially made to cheat at pinball.
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I didn't know he had it specially made.
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You said he did, really?
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Yeah.
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I guess special made magnets.
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That's ridiculous.
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You might be the smartest person I've ever met explains Bobbie Jo to which Essie rolls her eyes.
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Essie rolls her eyes so far back she can see Texas.
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Essie gags, tired of being the third wheel on this weird romance, and asks to be taken home.
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Now, sans Essie, Bobbie Jo and Lyle are camped out over a fire they appear to be cooking a tentacle.
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No way it's a rabbit.
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Bobbie Jo admires Lyle's guns.
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He has a pistol on a rifle now.
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I guess he used it to kill the rabbit and not a squid.
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Lyle tells Bobbie Jo, he got it from his brother who was a hunter.
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He doesn't shoot anything he won't eat.
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And his handgun is a cult like Billy the Kids.
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Lyle says that he learned from the hunting accident that killed his dad to never lose his footing.
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Bobbie Jo asked if that's why he learned to shoot so well.
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Lyle says no.
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What makes you say that?
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Then he says that he's got the confidence that won't quit.
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Lord grant me the unerred confidence of a Marjoe Gortner.
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Then Bobbie Jo asks him what life is like on the road.
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Lots of towns, lots of girls.
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No, nothing like that says Lyle.
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He asks her if he can tell her something personal without her getting mad.
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He confesses that he's not really a leather salesman.
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She looks as if she's trying to hide her disappointment.
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But I imagine she's really relieved.
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He found that sample book at a gas station, omitting exactly how he found it at the gas station.
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Then those city lights plays again and Lyle and Bobbie Jo get naked again until morning.
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This is the third time.
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And still, not the last.
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I know it's the next day we're at some sort of pool parlor gas station bust depot.
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I don't have any idea.
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And Essie is dropped off.
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She joins Bobbie Jo and Lyle and she's got a travel bag.
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Bobbie Jo is pleased to see her but Lyle who's playing pool seems less than pleased.
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Essie says she had to get three different rides to make it there.
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But she did manage to go to Bobbie Jo's place to get her a change of tank tops.
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She tries to give gas money to Lyle, $20.
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But he rejects it.
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Is this a threesome now?
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He asks.
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Bobbie Jo takes the bill until it's Lyle to be nice to Essie.
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And Essie tells him that he's too uptight and that they can do whatever comes naturally.
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In the next scene, Lyle, Bobbie Jo and Essie have met up with a Native American.
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They're in a pool of water and mud and sharing mushrooms.
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I guess that's what comes naturally.
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They're all naked and there's a Native American medicine man guiding their trip, I guess.
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Essie asks for some help with hers.
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Lyle doesn't seem to need any help with his.
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But when he comes out there, he sees the whole US cavalry, and Indians too and a sheriff and his posse are coming and they're after Lyle.
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He says he's trapped in a building.
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Bobbie Jo tells him to just go out the back door, but it's too late.
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Lyle's been shot.
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Oh no.
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He's foreshadowing the entire movie.
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Bummer.
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Post-trip, the gang stops at a convenience store.
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A cop pulls up next to them.
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Seconds later, same cop is at Lyle's window asking for his license.
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In response, Lyle peels out and takes off.
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The cop follows.
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Lyle warns them that the posse is after them.
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Bobbie Jo asks what's gotten into Lyle and Lyle explains that the car he's driving isn't exactly his.
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"Do you mean it's hot," asks Essie?
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Lyle keeps driving.
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There's a truck's trailer in the middle of the road pointed in an angle so it makes a great ramp.
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Lyle drives over it, lands back on the road and turns with it.
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The police car follows, lands back on the road and skids off it.
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As Lyle, Bobbie Jo, and Essie drive away, the policeman scrambles from his car.
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He barely makes it before it detonates.
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Of course it does.
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In the car, Lyle tells Essie and Bobbie Jo that they can surface and ask them what they think they should do now.
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Bobbie Jo thinks for a second and then suggests they go to see her sister.
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Her sister's in show business, so maybe she could help.
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Her sister's show business happens to be a grimy strip club.
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There's two tapeless girls dancing.
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Bobbie Jo, Lyle and Essie are at the bar.
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Bobbie Jo's sister Pearl comes up and compliments her sister on growing up pretty because they haven't seen each other in a while.
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Pearl's bow slick joins them as well.
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Slick is able to figure out that they're here because they have no money.
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Yes, Bobbie Jo, if she wants a job, but Pearl says she wouldn't work in a place like this.
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So Slick is Bobbie Jo $10 to get herself some feed and they'll figure something out.
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Then Slick asks Lyle to drive him to the office so he could pick something up.
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Lyle says sure and he and Slick take off.
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Before he goes, Bobbie Jo caution signs be careful not for any particular reason.
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Everyone's scoffs at her for caring and Essie even says, "Loosen the leash."
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Pearl tells her sister that Slick may look dumb, but he's great in the sack.
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And he's a really good dancer too.
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And he believes in her and he has since they first met, which is also the first time they had sex.
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And she asks if Bobbie Jo and Essie aren't in any trouble.
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Bobbie Jo is sure as her they're not.
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A lot of Lyle and going on in this maybe.
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Meanwhile, Lyle and Slick are off on that errand.
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Slick likes the Mustang.
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He takes a snort of something and offers some to Lyle, but Lyle turns it down.
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You ain't ever seen me high, have you?
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I spent three minutes ago, so no, they have not seen each other high.
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I'm funny as hell when I'm high, says Slick, as he puts on a pair of novelty glasses.
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Well, that proves it.
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They've arrived at their destination, so Slick jumps out of the car.
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How long are you going to be, Essie?
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Just a couple of minutes, says Slick.
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So wearing the glasses, he reaches into his shirt as he walks to a fenced-in area
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behind the New Mexico Peter built building.
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Seconds later, Slick is scuttling back to the car, pursued by a night watchman.
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Who tells Slick to stop.
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Fires his revolver in the air and then fires at Slick.
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Slick is hit and he goes down, dropping his gun.
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Lyle leaps from the car, picks up the gun and shoots the security guard in the face.
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As they drive away, Slick asks Lyle if he got the gun.
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Lyle is understandably miffed.
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Why didn't you tell me what was going down?
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Do you realize I killed somebody back there?
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Slick tells him not to worry about it.
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Lyle asks if Slick needs to see a doctor, but Slick tells him that Pearl can patch him up.
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Interleparate camey and matching panties.
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Pearl does first aid on Slick.
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Slick is not a very patient patient, though.
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Plotpoint radio interrupts the music.
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Turn us the news of the guard's death and subsequent manhunt with two men in an orange Mustang.
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An apprehension is imminent, the announcer says.
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And it looks like this is the first time the women are hearing about the murder part of this adventure.
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I guess we're all in this together now, says Pearl.
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What do you mean we?
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I'm the one who's gonna hang, says Lyle.
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And Bobbie Jo says, wait a minute, aren't we all family here?
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They'll figure out what to do together.
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I see, suggest turning themselves in now, but Slick says that that idea sucks.
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Lyle looks outside to verify the imminent apprehension.
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There's already a cop looking at Lyle's distinctive vehicle outside.
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Lyle tells them to kill the lights and announces that he has a plan.
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Uh oh.
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Since they're all in this together, they'd better climb out through the roof.
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Really?
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And clear out of there.
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The next day, the radio is reporting that roadblocks have been set up for the suspects and last night's murder.
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They have acquired a school bus painted up for the new Mexico Christian crusade.
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And the women are all dressed like sister wives.
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It's Slick Pearl, Essie, and Bobbie Jo's job to distract at the roadblock so Lyle can get through in another car.
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Bobbie Jo wants to ride with Lyle, but they explain that they don't know about the rest of them,
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so it's better if he goes this one alone.
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Bobbie Jo and Essie each hug Lyle goodbye, and Slick comes over to tell him not to let his meet-low.
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I'm not sure I speak the same language as Slick does.
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On the road, the bus goes first.
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You get stopped at a roadblock where Sheriff Hicks quizzes them on their destination.
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The young Christian folks in his convention, they say, "Hicks tries to challenge them."
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He thought that was in Gallup last week, but Pearl says she doesn't know nothing about that.
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They're headed for Santa Fe.
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The sheriff loves the Lord, and so he lets them pass.
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Once he's out of earshot, Slick offers to kill Hicks now, but Pearl tells him to shut up and drive.
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And we'll find out later that that proves unwise.
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So they drive through while seeing bringing in the sheaves.
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Once they're through, Lyle hops into his car and busts through the roadblock.
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So not so fired and Sheriff Hicks jumps into his car to give chase.
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After Lyle passes, the school bus is left in the middle of the road.
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The others pile into Lyle's car.
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A police car ran through the back quarter of the bus, and Hicks himself crashes through the school bus,
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somehow getting enough lift to accomplish this.
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He lands on a hillside and the car rolls over back onto the street, but upside down.
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It does not explode.
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[Music]
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And now we're back with the gang.
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They're at the stream where they did the mushrooms or perhaps they're in a different stream.
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That's he's grateful for Lyle's driving skills, but Lyle just pushes her into the water.
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Bobbie Jo, he confesses he thinks it would be better if the two of them were alone.
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But Bobbie Jo says that they'll just stay one step ahead of the cops.
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Lyle thinks or tries to for a second, and then agrees that they can do that.
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Then he, wearing a diaper, jumps in the water for a swim.
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Meanwhile, Slick is working on the car.
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Pearl tells him that he's acting like a coward, doing everything Lyle tells him to.
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Slick says that Lyle is much better at planning things than he is, so he isn't mind taking the back seat.
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Anyway, it didn't bother Pearl when it was just the two of them, but now Slick wants her to remember one thing.
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A hard man is good to find.
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Problem solved.
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And they all swim or sun themselves in their underwear.
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Slick wonders what the next move is now that the car is ready to go.
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Lyle says they're gonna lay low for a while and figure out their next move.
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And now we're at a trailer park where apparently you can rent trailers by the night.
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All five of them are crammed into one single wide.
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Pearl needs to know where they are and where they're going, and she's going to be the driver.
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Lyle thinks they should travel in two cars, but Bobby Joe doesn't like that idea.
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Plotpoint television now has a special message from Guadalupe County Sheriff Bud Hicks to the outlaws.
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Hicks wants to tell Lyle Wheeler in particular that if he turns himself in now,
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he will promise a fair trial, which I guess means that only special cases get those.
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He goes on to say that he believes they weren't implicated the way that they thought they were,
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so it's a good time to turn themselves in.
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And if they don't, he's going to hunt them down like dogs.
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Essie. thinks turning themselves in sounds like a good deal.
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Lyle tells her she's free to go anytime she wants.
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But Essie says amnesty he means they can ALL go back home, but nobody else is buying a sheriff's story.
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Lyle says they should lay low until they can get a hold of some more money.
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Everyone thinks this sounds like a great idea, except for Essie,
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who goes off by yourself to the other side of the trailer.
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That night, as the various couples cuddle together in bed asleep,
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Essie, the fifth wheel, sneaks out to the payphone to announce to the law where they all are.
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Instantly the police arrive gun's drawn.
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Sheriff Hicks yells out that Lyle needs to come out nice and easy.
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As Lyle and Slick ready themselves for a shootout, Bobbie Jo and Pearl sneak out through a hatch in the floor.
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Bobbie Jo notices Essie is missing, but there's no time to look for her now.
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Sheriff Hicks calls out for one more chance for Lyle to give himself up peacefully.
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He tells his men that if he's not out there in three seconds to let him have it.
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Essie runs out in front of the trailer.
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"No, you promised!" and the cops open fire and down goes Essie.
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Is that three seconds?
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Was up.
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There's firing back and forth the cops at the trailer.
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Lyle and Slick at the cops.
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Then Lyle and Slick take the way out through the hatch.
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They run out in front of the trailer and get in the car that Pearl is pulled around.
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Somehow, not getting shot.
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As he's getting in the car, Lyle scoops up Essie and they drive away.
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Then, for reasons I cannot explain, the entire trailer explodes.
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And then the cops realize that the outlaws have departed.
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After driving for a little while, the car pulls over.
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Lyle is still holding Essie and Essie is crying, telling Lyle that he promised they'd be okay.
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She says she really thought that she was helping him.
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Lyle says it's okay and Essie dies.
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She's dead, says Slick.
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No, says Bobbie Jo.
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Yes, says Lyle.
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No, says Bobbie Jo.
442
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But Lyle confirms that she is most sincerely dead and says that he'll miss her.
443
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:37,200
And then there's more driving.
444
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,200
Once they stop, we see that they're bearing Essie in an unmarked grave in the middle of nowhere
445
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:44,200
where no one who loved her will ever be able to find her body.
446
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:48,200
Marjoe Gortner preaches grave side from the book of Billy the Kid, saying,
447
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:52,200
"I wanted to get killed in one hell-firing minute of smoking action."
448
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:55,200
And then he says that Essie had that spirit and they all do.
449
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,200
And he vows revenge on the sheriff that killed Essie.
450
00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:02,200
And to start that campaign of vengeance, they're going to rob a bank.
451
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,200
This is met with gang-wide approval.
452
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,200
I think Bobbie Jo even climaxes.
453
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:10,200
Well, anyway, she goes "Christ!" in a very excited tone.
454
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:15,200
Lyle says they're going to need a lot more firepower and everyone's going to have to learn how to use these guns.
455
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:16,200
Well, the women anyway.
456
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:22,200
And the next scene sees them practicing shooting some newly acquired automatic weapons on an abandoned house.
457
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:26,200
You never see how they get those weapons because it's the next scene where they steal what they need.
458
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,200
Earl and Bobbie Jo are waiting in the car outside a gun shop.
459
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,200
Bobbie Jo gets tired of waiting. It's taking too long.
460
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,200
So she stupidly goes to stand in the center of the street outside the shop,
461
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,200
just as Slick and Lyle are exiting guns of lasing.
462
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,200
The gun shop owner chases after them and shoots at them.
463
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:42,200
Slick gets into the car.
464
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:47,200
Bobbie Jo comes back and is ducking behind the car and Lyle joins her and hands off his big guns
465
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,200
so he can get off a shot with his cult.
466
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,200
Bobbie Jo seems to enjoy shooting a little too much though,
467
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,200
even after she takes down the last man firing at them.
468
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,200
She shoots a few dozen more rounds for the sheer joy of it,
469
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,200
Lyle has to haul her bodily back to the car.
470
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,200
As they drive off, Lyle warns her to never do that again.
471
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,200
Next time he's not coming back for her.
472
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,200
But Lyle, I made him dance, didn't I?
473
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,200
Lyle looks concerned at how very into this she is.
474
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:16,200
Now we're at an old farmhouse and an even older couple are sitting in rocking chairs in front of this house.
475
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,200
These are the pots.
476
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:23,200
Mr. Potts explains that these kids offered him $50 to stay in their barn for a week.
477
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,200
Mrs. Potts knows all this already, she lives there too.
478
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,200
And they haven't been using the barn anyway, but she just doesn't like strangers.
479
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,200
Well then, I guess it's good that they're leaving.
480
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,200
The four of them come outside to say goodbye.
481
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:39,200
Lyle says he's very grateful for their hospitality and he wants to give them $50.
482
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:40,200
But he doesn't have it.
483
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,200
The old folks look really disappointed at this.
484
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,200
But promises Lyle, he will mail it to them at some future time.
485
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:49,200
You order Bobbie Jo to get their address and tell them to watch for them on the TV tonight.
486
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,200
Are you going to be on a game show as Mr. Potts?
487
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,200
No, we're going to be on the news, says Lyle.
488
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:58,200
Bobbie Jo gets the address and compliments Mrs. Potts on her pie.
489
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,200
And Mr. Potts says as they go, "I know those nice kids.
490
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,200
They wouldn't hurt a fly."
491
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:08,200
Next we see Bobbie Jo and Pearl are in a station wagon and Slick and Lyle are in a pickup truck.
492
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,200
Lyle radios at the reach checkpoint Charlie.
493
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:14,200
Bobbie Jo radios back that they'll be in position in the next two minutes.
494
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:18,200
The station wagon, containing the women, pulls up to the gentleman's bank.
495
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:22,200
While Pearl waits in the car, Bobbie Jo goes into case to join by attempting to cash a check.
496
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:28,200
The bank manager says that since she has an out of town check and she doesn't have an account with them, they can't help her.
497
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,200
Bobbie Jo thinks them and goes back on side.
498
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:34,200
Then the pickup truck comes around the corner and crashes into the bank.
499
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:39,200
Slick stands up in the back of the truck and introduces himself, Lyle and Bobbie Jo, as their robbers today.
500
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,200
Everyone has their hands up and an older woman seems to be having some trouble,
501
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,200
so Lyle tells her not to worry about a thing and has Bobbie Jo get her a chair to sit in.
502
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,200
I think they made the first drive through bank here.
503
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:53,200
Then Lyle ties a chain around the bank's safe, attaches the other end to the front of the truck.
504
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:57,200
The bank manager reaches for something and Slick and loads his gun into him.
505
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,200
They back out, dragging the safe with them.
506
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,200
Bobbie Jo exits two, gun at the ready.
507
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:06,200
Then they have to waste time disconnecting the chain, safe from the front bumper, and reconnecting it to the back.
508
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,200
Then everyone jumps in their respective vehicles and they drive off.
509
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,200
The safe sparking and bouncing is its drag behind the truck.
510
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:16,200
Then we see Sheriff Hicks hit the scene of the crime. He's really impressed at this amount of damage
511
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,200
and tells Deputy Lee Roy to take a look at this and then to call for backup.
512
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:24,200
Now we see that Lyle, Bobbie Jo, Slick and Pearl have taken refuge at Magic Ray's dome.
513
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,200
It's kind of a commune.
514
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,200
Yeah, and again they're leaving. We only ever see them when they're leaving a place.
515
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,200
Magic Ray offers to let them stay, but they've got to keep moving. And they leave.
516
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:38,200
Soon though, Sheriff Hicks shows up at the commune and he goes to question Magic Ray.
517
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:42,200
The sheriff knows that the bank robbers have been through there. He just wants to know which way they went.
518
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,200
Magic Ray says he doesn't know and maybe they passed through on some higher plane.
519
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,200
The sheriff responds by spitting his tobacco onto his table.
520
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,200
Ugh, so gross.
521
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:56,200
He's always chewing tobacco in every scene. Even when he was on television, we didn't mention it before.
522
00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:00,200
This is a habit that makes me sick to my stomach, so I noticed every time.
523
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,200
That action doesn't make Magic Ray any more cooperative.
524
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:07,200
So Deputy Leroy chokes Ray with a rifle stock for a little while.
525
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:13,200
Then Hicks sends Leroy out to the car so he can ask one more time for information, which Ray once again does not provide.
526
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,200
Then Hicks pistol whips Ray and takes his leave.
527
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:20,200
Ray picks himself off the floor and snarls, "peace officer, huh?"
528
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,200
And now we have another pit stop on the road to tradition.
529
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:26,200
Yep, Lyle, Bobbie Jo, Slick and Pearl have driven into town.
530
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:34,200
They're feeling fairly safe and flush with cash. So Lyle sends Bobbie Jo and Pearl out for ice cream while he and Slick head to the barber shop for a shave.
531
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:42,200
Lyle also says he plans to mail the $50 that he owes the pots. Pearl rejects to this because it's all their money, but Lyle says a promise is a promise.
532
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:46,200
Bobbie Jo and Pearl go into the drug store and order a couple of chocolate ice cream cones.
533
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:52,200
While they're waiting, they see that they've made the headlines along with Lyle's picture. The article lists them all by name with commentary on Slick.
534
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:58,200
They describe Slick as a no good chiseler, as do I, but that really belongs in an op-ed piece and not a news item.
535
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:02,200
Pearl says that's not very nice to say, and besides they didn't even mention her dancing.
536
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:06,200
Bobbie Jo says they should get two copies and give one to the boys.
537
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:11,200
No money ever changes hands in the scene. They get their ice cream in their newspapers and never give the clerk a dime.
538
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:16,200
Meanwhile at the barber shop, Lyle and Slick are sitting in the chairs with hot towels on their faces.
539
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:21,200
The barber says he has to go out and stroke his strap, and this sets Lyle and Slick into fits of giggles.
540
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:26,200
Me too. They stop laughing when someone comes in and points his shotgun at them.
541
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,200
I guess he wasn't stroking his strap after all.
542
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,200
This is Deputy Gance. He tells them not to move unless they feel lucky.
543
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:38,200
Because dead or alive, he gets the reward either way. Then Gance turns to Slick, "and you must be that two-bit thief.
544
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:44,200
Why don't you try to steal past me?" Slick says, “Cheeseface, I'm gonna take you apart."
545
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,200
Gance says that he'd shit like him for breakfast.
546
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:48,200
Ew.
547
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,200
Gance hands his shotgun to the barber and tells him to keep an eye on them while he goes and calls the sheriff.
548
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:56,200
Wouldn't it be better if he held the shotgun and told the barber to go call the sheriff?
549
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,200
Because the barber would get the reward.
550
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:02,200
Oh, I see. I don't think the cops would do each other dirty like that.
551
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:07,200
He goes off-screen to call the sheriff. The barber asks Lyle and Slick to hand over their boots.
552
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,200
Because it'll be great for business to have those on the premises.
553
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,200
Lyle says that the barber can have his shoes once Lyle is through with him.
554
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:19,200
Meaning the barber? Deputy Gantz returns, and the rifle once again changes hands, but that's where Lyle makes his move.
555
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,200
He gets control of the rifle as Slick takes the barber's straight razor.
556
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:28,200
Lyle makes Gance get on his hands and knees and squeal like a pig, which he's not very good at doing.
557
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,200
All his bravado is now gone.
558
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,200
Then Slick grabs Gance and throws him into the barber chair.
559
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:38,200
What you need is a close shave, Slick says, rubbing the handle of the straight razor against his throat.
560
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,200
Gance begs for his life, telling them that he can help them hide or give them money.
561
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,200
Lyle says there are some things money can't buy.
562
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,200
And Slick says that he can't exactly call off the sheriff.
563
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,200
A couple of seconds later, Slick decides to slit the deputy's throat.
564
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:56,200
This is too much for Lyle. He marches Slick out of the shop, commanding the barber to stay put for 15 minutes.
565
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,200
The barber grimaces at the man bleeding out in his chair next to him.
566
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,200
Lyle and Slick went into the car where Pearl and Bobbie Jo are waiting.
567
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:07,200
Bobbie Jo asks what's wrong, and Lyle tells everyone that Slick just slit a deputy's throat.
568
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:11,200
Pearl, while trying to start the car, asks why he did that. Slick says he guarantees he had a coming.
569
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:17,200
Lyle says that killing someone is self-defense and doing it in cold blood in front of witnesses is a difference between good and evil.
570
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:22,200
I guess good then is killing people who are trying to stop you from committing a crime.
571
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,200
Lyle gets tired of watching Pearl struggle to start the car.
572
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:29,200
He jumps out of the back seat and pushes into the driver's side, managing to start it almost immediately.
573
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,200
And they take off.
574
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:42,200
Sheriff picks his arriving town and he's questioning the barber since he's the only witness.
575
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:47,200
The sheriff is waving his knife in the barber's face while blathering at him with a mouthful of chew.
576
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:51,200
The only thing a barber remembers is that Lyle promised to give him his boots when he's through with them.
577
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:56,200
The sheriff says that's going to be sooner than he thinks, and he spits a ball of chaw onto the ground.
578
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,200
Groves, on the road, everyone is content but Bobby Joe.
579
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,200
She's scared and she wants her mama.
580
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,200
Slick says that's not going to happen. They got to keep moving.
581
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,200
But Lyle promises she will see her mom.
582
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,200
And in the next scene, she does.
583
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:13,200
There in a park and Hattie tells Bobbie Jo that the sheriff gave her a number to call if Bobbie Jo shows up.
584
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,200
Hattie gives the car to Bobbie Jo.
585
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,200
Then she greets her other daughter a little less enthusiastically.
586
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,200
Pearl is suspicious of her mama's motives.
587
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:25,200
Hattie swears that the sheriff believes that they're innocent and that he's so nice.
588
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:29,200
But Pearl forces Hattie to admit that the sheriff promised her $50 to get Bobbie Jo to call them.
589
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,200
Hattie says that she needs the money.
590
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,200
Pearl is smug about being right, but Bobbie Jo says, "I know mama."
591
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,200
And then she adds, "We have to go."
592
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:40,200
Hattie sadly says goodbye to her baby, but not at all to Pearl.
593
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,200
And as they go, she takes a hit off of her squeeze bottle.
594
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,200
It's like she's drinking out of a bottle of Hydrops.
595
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,200
It's so weird. Just get a flask.
596
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:52,200
Now it's night. The sheriff pulled up to a hotel, advertising quadruple X movies.
597
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,200
Stream live to your room.
598
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:58,200
Lyle was looking out the window and he sees his old friend the sheriff has tracked them down.
599
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,200
The sheriff goes in to talk to the hotel manager.
600
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:04,200
The sheriff shows in photos of the culprits and the manager recognizes them.
601
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:08,200
Back in the room, Lyle tells the others he's going to create a distraction.
602
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,200
And when they hear one shot, they are to run out to the car.
603
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,200
Back in the hotel office, the manager tells the sheriff that they're in room 8.
604
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:16,200
No wait, 9.
605
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,200
Then he asks if they're dangerous.
606
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,200
The sheriff just looks at him.
607
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,200
"The real Lyle Wheeler's gang, you tell me."
608
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:23,200
"Whaaaat?"
609
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,200
Lyle shoves up a beam and gets himself on the roof.
610
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:30,200
He walks along to another part of the hotel where an officer spots him.
611
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:34,200
Lyle shoots the cop. The shot makes Hicks send every cop he has in that direction.
612
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:39,200
Which is on the other side of the hotel from when Slick, Bobbie Jo and everyone else was staying.
613
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:43,200
The three of them exit the hotel and Lyle makes it back to where the car is parked.
614
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,200
And he hops in with them and they go.
615
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,200
Hicks and his cops stake out room number 9.
616
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,200
Hicks tells them to come out with their hands up, waits to beat,
617
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:56,200
and then Hicks declares this to be resisting arrest so they unleash a barrage of ammo into the room.
618
00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:03,200
But when Hicks goes to enter the room, he finds a different set of guests, a naked man and two women riddled with bullets.
619
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:08,200
One deputy looks shocked, but Hicks says it was the Lord's will. They are all sinners.
620
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:09,200
So, no big deal.
621
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:12,200
"Just then the manager runs over to tell the sheriff that he's made a mistake.
622
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:15,200
The night manager had sent them out into another room while he was out.
623
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:16,200
Whoops."
624
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:21,200
"Yeah, the manager looks at the bodies and just realizes how fatal of a mistake he's made.
625
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:25,200
And now we're back with our gang who are camped out somewhere in the desert.
626
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:29,200
Slick says that the Texas newspaper says there's a bounty on their heads there too.
627
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,200
They discuss where they should go.
628
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:35,200
Bobbie Jo wants to go to Pueblo, New Mexico, Colorado? I don't know.
629
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:38,200
But Slick says that they should go to Mexico as soon as possible.
630
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,200
"This sounds good to Pearl because she can go for a taco right now."
631
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:45,200
"I'll decide that they're going to sleep on it tonight and decide in the morning.
632
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,200
Bobbie Jo asks Lyle to sleep on her tonight, but he just walks away.
633
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:53,200
Bobbie Jo tells her sister Lyle just has things on his mind right now and goes after him.
634
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:59,200
Slick watches her go and says that Lyle knows what's going to happen, just like he knows what's going to happen.
635
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,200
And he's just sorry he dragged Pearl into this.
636
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:05,200
Pearl says that all her life, he's the first person to ever tell her she can do anything.
637
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,200
So she's glad to be here and she's not leaving him.
638
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,200
"She's going to be his ride and die. I mean, ride or die.
639
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:16,200
Also, she wants to get laid right now and they probably should because it might be their last time."
640
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:20,200
The next day we see Lyle having his car fill up at a service station.
641
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:24,200
The cost is $5.53, but the attendant is willing to draw him for it.
642
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:29,200
He recognizes Lyle and he introduces himself as Joe Grant, the fastest drawing Texas.
643
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,200
Lyle says okay and Joe runs inside to get his gun.
644
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,200
He comes back out and Bobbie Jo asks what's going on.
645
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:39,200
Lyle says he's just paying a bill and she and the others should wait inside.
646
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,200
Joe tells Lyle to draw, but Lyle says he never draws first.
647
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:47,200
He takes his position in the road and the two start pacing towards each other, has Slick, Pearl and Bobby Joe look on.
648
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:53,200
The musical tension rises. Joe takes off his rings and then the two draw, but Lyle is a little faster.
649
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:59,200
He shoots Joe in the gut. In slow motion, Joe grimaces and falls to his knee and then flat on his face.
650
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,200
So undignified, but a weird hobby.
651
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:07,200
Then Lyle asks Bobbie Jo for a $100 bill, which he stuffs into the Deadman's hand.
652
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:12,200
Maybe that'll help pay for a decent funeral. Then they all pile into the car and leave once again.
653
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,200
We always see him going.
654
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:20,200
And we're still at the gas station where Sheriff Hicks is consoling some relative of Joe's with a wet mouthful of chalk.
655
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:21,200
Yuck.
656
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:25,200
Deputy no name comes out with a map that was left behind in one of the booths.
657
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:31,200
Someone wrote Weblo several times in the margin and this is enough of a clue for Hicks and they all leave.
658
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:35,200
Next we see Bobbie Jo alone at the market. But where are the others?
659
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:39,200
Well it turns out Lyle Slick and Pearl are holed up at an Indian reservation.
660
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:40,200
Are so we're meant to believe.
661
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:44,200
Lyle asks if anyone has seen Bobbie Jo. Pearl says she went to go get some food.
662
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,200
In town asked Lyle, Pearl says she'll be fine.
663
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:51,200
At the store, Bobbie Jo has to body block the newspaper with her photo on the front as she checks out.
664
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:55,200
The grocer is sure that he recognizes her, but he thinks she's Jack Kingman's daughter.
665
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,200
Bobbie Jo denies that and tells him to make it snappy.
666
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:02,200
He's taking too long. He bags her groceries and she leaves.
667
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,200
Given the grocer's opportunity to see the cover of the paper.
668
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,200
That's great, senior, before.
669
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:10,200
Looks like it's her high school photo on the cover of that edition.
670
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:14,200
And now we see that Sheriff Hicks has tracked them down at the reservation.
671
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:18,200
He has his men surround them and gives them to the count of 12 to surrender.
672
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,200
That's pretty generous for him, usually two or three.
673
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,200
He makes the count and the police start shooting.
674
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,200
I would expect him to short-changes them on the count.
675
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,200
While in Slick's shoot back while Pearl stays low.
676
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:32,200
She stands to grab her own gun and gets shot in the belly in the process.
677
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:36,200
She collapses onto the couch and Slick rushes to her side to say goodbye.
678
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,200
Now tells him that they gots to go when they shoot their way out.
679
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:43,200
Almost successfully because they make it to their car without getting hit.
680
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,200
But when they open the door, Hicks is waiting for them on the front seat of the car.
681
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,200
He's been at this long enough to know their MO by now.
682
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:50,200
So he shoots them both.
683
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:54,200
They keep getting in their car and driving away so he never needed to be.
684
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:58,200
Exactly. And as he shoots them, the frame freezes so we never see them fall.
685
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:02,200
It is now daylight. Bobbie Jo has returned and is in custody.
686
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,200
A blanket is thrown over Lyle and swims dead bodies.
687
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,200
A deputy has found Lyle's book on Billy the Kid in his car.
688
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,200
There's a page marked and the sheriff reads from it.
689
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:15,200
He reads this passage from the book of Billy as Bobbie Jo struggles against those holding her.
690
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,200
The biggest fool in the world is he who thinks he can beat the law.
691
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,200
Crime never pays and never will.
692
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:26,200
Bobbie Jo calls Hicks a bastard and then she calls him a bastard again and spits in his space.
693
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,200
Hicks commands the cops to get her out of here.
694
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:32,200
Then he posthumously and literally throws the book at Lyle as the credits roll.
695
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:37,200
And for the fourth time, we are those city lights by Bobby Bare.
696
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,200
And that's the end?
697
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:51,200
Welcome back to the American International Podcast where we're talking about Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw from 1976.
698
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:57,200
The film was originally to be called Desperado and another working title was Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw Man.
699
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:03,200
But in March of 1976, the LA Times announced that Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw would be at least that spring.
700
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:12,200
Bobbie Jo and the Lyle was shot in and around New Mexico beginning in August of 1975 with production wrapping in September of 1975 on a budget of about half a million dollars.
701
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:19,200
AIP acquired the domestic release rights in December of 1975 according to an article in the Hollywood Reporter.
702
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,200
The movie was based on the Billy the Kid story.
703
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:29,200
In interviews, director Mark L. Lester said, "I did a lot of research on Billy the Kid and I told the writer to follow the Billy the Kid story.
704
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,200
I read about how he had lasted a safe and tied it to his horse.
705
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:37,200
So when our movie, the guy, Lester, is the safe and ties it to his pickup truck and crashes through the bank.
706
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,200
They travel the same route as Billy the Kid in the movie.
707
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:44,200
And the character, I thought, should just think he's Billy the Kid."
708
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:52,200
Lester's first choice for the role was child evangelist Marjoe Gortner, who bicker with Lester on his salary for the role.
709
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:58,200
He's quoted as saying, "We were fighting over money with Marjo and I told him he had until five o'clock that evening to make his choice.
710
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,200
At 4:59, he called and agreed to do the picture.
711
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,200
And then I had to call and tell Sylvester Stallone that he didn't get the part.
712
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,200
Sylvester Stallone as the Outlaw. Can you imagine?
713
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:17,200
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw marks the film debut of Miss USA 1972 Lynda Carter, premiering a month before she was seen on television as Wonder Woman, which itself only lasted for three seasons.
714
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:21,200
The film's also the only one to feature Lynda Carter in a new scene.
715
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:26,200
I heard that later she disavowed this movie because of that because of her new found religion.
716
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:31,200
Merrie Lynn Ross, who played Pearl, also co-produced the movie under the name Lynn Ross.
717
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:38,200
In an interview for the Blu-Ray release, she said that she helped raise money for the production and problem-solved when circumstances called for that.
718
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:45,200
The book from which Lyle is reading over Essie's grave is Love Letters and Bad Men by Jay Robert Nash, published in 1973.
719
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:58,200
In December of 1976, variety announced that Nash had filed a lawsuit against producer director Mark L. Lester, Command Properties Incorporated, and AIP for Copyright infringement, alleging that sections of his book were quoted in the movie with confirmation.
720
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:06,200
Nash asked for $15 million in damages and attorney fees, as well as the cessation of foreign distribution and the withholding of all profits.
721
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,200
The outcome of the situation is unknown to us at this time.
722
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:13,200
Mark Lester said he was surprised to hear that he was being sued by Nash.
723
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,200
He said, "It turns out I wasn't allowed to use the book in the movie.
724
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:21,200
I had to pay the author for the rights to the Billy the Kid story. I thought it was public domain at the time."
725
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:30,200
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw was released in February of 1976, the film had its LA premiere in April of 1976 and opened in New York City that July.
726
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:39,200
AIP recommended that theater owners hold a Marjoe and Lynda look alike contest, giving prizes to the people who most resemble the distinctive looking stars.
727
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:45,200
They also suggested allowing anyone named Bobbie or Jo, no variations on the spelling, to get in to see the movie for free.
728
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:52,200
Other suggestions include a pinball tournament, a display of "Indian lore," and a water pistol drawing contest.
729
00:41:52,200 --> 00:42:03,200
Taglines for Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw include, "Bobbie Jo was a car hop. She wanted to be a country singer. He was a hustler who dreamed he was Billy the Kid. For while they had something and then..."
730
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:08,200
"It started out as a joyride. It sure didn't end that way."
731
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:14,200
That's true. Mark Lester called Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw very successful, which it was and went on to make $5 million.
732
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:18,200
Critics didn't love it, however, even if the general public did.
733
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:25,200
Lou Cedrone and the Baltimore Evening Sun had harsh words for the movie after Marjoe Gortner canceled an appearance to promote the film in that city.
734
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:30,200
I imagine his plans were changed because the producers of the film realized it was a lost cause.
735
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:34,200
I walked down before the film was over while the kids were planning to rob a bank.
736
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:39,200
They were at desperately dull bunch and I knew what was going to happen, so I spared myself the agony.
737
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:47,200
RJ Gardner of the Baltimore Sun apparently saw the whole movie and he was not the first or last critic to call Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw a poor man's Bonnie and Clyde.
738
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,200
But he did add for emphasis of very poor man.
739
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:54,200
He went on, saying "Gortner decided his real calling lay in the acting field.
740
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:57,200
The film goes a long way towards challenging that decision."
741
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:05,200
Of Belinda Balasky, Gardner said she, quote, "looks in this film as if she would rather read books than do almost anything else. Would that she had."
742
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:18,200
Stanley Eichelbaum of the San Francisco Examiner's review was headlined. He got out of evangelism for this and called Bobbie Joe and the Outlaw a paltry and tedious abomination ripped off from every popular hit glorifying the outlaw.
743
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:25,200
Marjoe takes his one-dimensional role in stride and appears to enjoy every minute of this tacky celebration of carnage.
744
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:31,200
Vincent Canby of the New York Times. So Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw is a second feature after They Came from Within, also known as Shivers.
745
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:39,200
Of the second half of the bill, he said, “Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw is another terrible film about young people on a crime spree with Texas and Environs.
746
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:46,200
This one stars Marjoe Gortner, the former child evangelist who is now too whether to play a young person with much pictorial conviction."
747
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:52,200
Michael Walsh in the Vancouver Province said in his review, director Mark L. Lester can't wait to get the blood flowing.
748
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:57,200
In Vernon Zimmerman's telegraphic script makes a perfunctory stab at social significance.
749
00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:05,200
While he praised Lynda Carter for her role in the new original Wonder Woman, saying she has arrived, he said Bobbie Jo in the Outlaw is pretty much a dead letter.
750
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:10,200
Drive in double feature fair, a bit of minor exploitation for the backseat crowd.
751
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:19,200
Fox office magazine's review said Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw was a "week spin-off of the Bonnie and Clyde theme" and that there's no socially redeeming value to the film.
752
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:25,200
It is strictly an exploitation item for the quick playoff market. The screenplay is poorly conceived and pointless.
753
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:33,200
In Mark Lester's 1982 film, Class of 1984, there's a scene with the character of Stegman, the evil teenager in Class of 1984,
754
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:39,200
sits at home watching Lynda Carter bask in the aftermath of a machine gun orgy as Bobbie Jo plays on TV.
755
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:48,200
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw was released on DVD as part of MGM's Archive Collection in 2011 and on Blu-ray in December of 2015 from Scorpion releasing.
756
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[Music]
757
00:44:55,200 --> 00:45:05,200
Well, now is a part of our show where we talk about how we felt about the movie. I cannot find a single positive review of Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw. Maybe you've got one. What do you think, Jeff?
758
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:11,200
Well, I think you cannot find a positive review because truthfully told it's not a great film. [laughs]
759
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:16,200
I think one thing that could have helped it was maybe another song or two for the soundtrack.
760
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:23,200
Oh my God. No other reviewer, well, one book I read mentioned the fact that this one song gets repeated over and over again.
761
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:31,200
It's so weird. You have a movie with a budget and you just have one and a half songs on the soundtrack that you repeat again and again.
762
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,200
It doesn't make sense. Nobody else does that.
763
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,200
No, it makes it pretty funny, actually.
764
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:41,200
Well, I guess it's that comedy-low where if you do it a couple of times as funny, if you do it a little more than that, it's not funny anymore.
765
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:47,200
But if you keep doing it over and over again, then it gets funny again. And that's kind of what happened here.
766
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:52,200
I don't know. The Lynda Carter song they play only twice and it's twice in a row, like one after the other.
767
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:55,200
It is between them. It's pretty hilarious in that context.
768
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:59,200
I guess they just needed some making out music and that's all they had.
769
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:06,200
They needed a better song for the end of the movie when everyone's dead except Bobbie Jo and the cops are wrapping up the scene.
770
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:13,200
Playing "Those City Lights" again, it just doesn't fit at all. They're not in the city. There's no lights. It makes no sense.
771
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,200
Well, it's the only song they had.
772
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:18,200
Yeah. Well, you just complained about that. So I'm joining you.
773
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:23,200
Well, that's why they did it. I'm just saying that maybe they should have sprung for another song.
774
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:29,200
And I made several comments about them shopping off screen and they had to have happened.
775
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,200
Yeah. I don't know how they had money.
776
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:36,200
Well, when I say shopping, it means going to a store. It doesn't necessarily mean buying anything.
777
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:41,200
But we saw their crime spree. Why would they leave that part out? It's not that long of a movie.
778
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:44,200
They could have added a few more minutes of them stealing tank tops and guitars.
779
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:50,200
It's boring. Why would you come watch them steal tank tops and guitars just to make the rest of the film logical?
780
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:54,200
I got news for you, Jeff. Some of the stuff they do on camera is boring too.
781
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:57,200
In fact, a lot of the things they do in this movie are boring.
782
00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:02,200
I think a lot of the boring stuff was cut. We don't have to watch them hanging out at the commune or at the pot's house.
783
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:07,200
We just get there with just this is our leaving. And just in time for the show up to show up usually.
784
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:14,200
That's true. But we did have to live through the magic mushroom trip in the water with mud and boobs everywhere.
785
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:19,200
And Marjoe Gortner's hilarious one man show being killed and hail of bullets as he thrashes around in the water,
786
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,200
scaring everybody next to him.
787
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:28,200
Yeah, I don't think that scene was entirely necessary, but what it does is it shows the way Lyle thinks of himself.
788
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:37,200
He really thinks of himself as a modern day Billy the Kid and he puts himself in that situation in his trip and then in real life or within the film.
789
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:44,200
That's true. However, it looks silly. And silly is the word I would apply to a lot of scenes in this movie.
790
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,200
Oh, it is. We laughed a lot.
791
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:56,200
Oh, we did the line reads. We've acted out a few of them. The guy in the bar fight going, no, man, we got you did right without opening his mouth ever.
792
00:47:56,200 --> 00:48:04,200
And Portland, a Carter, I love her. And that's the reason I picked this movie. But she's like really weird in some of these scenes.
793
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:15,200
And now it's going to rob a bank and she's I said she climaxed it just her level of enthusiasm is that off the charts. She goes Christ. It's so funny.
794
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:18,200
And after she shoots up the store for no reason.
795
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:21,200
But Lyle, I made him dance, didn't I?
796
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:28,200
It's funny. It's really hilarious. And then there's the Marjoe Gortner of it all. I don't know how I keep getting stuck with movies with him.
797
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:35,200
And I picked this not because of him, but despite him, I don't care for him very much. He's just strange.
798
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:45,200
She's not the right person for this role. I don't think no. He's no supposed to alone. No, he probably is a slightly better actor, at least back in 75.
799
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:53,200
And you pictures the less just alone in this. I cannot. This came out the same year as Rocky. Yo, Bobbie Jo. No, I can't see that.
800
00:48:53,200 --> 00:49:01,200
But I can see somebody else. Maybe Beau Bridges or somebody with a modicum of talent. Maybe Jeff Bridges, young Jeff Bridges.
801
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:05,200
Obviously, this may be his beneath this level of talent.
802
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:12,200
The script is kind of ridiculous to get what they were going for. This modern Bonnie and Clyde slash a log.
803
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:16,200
Jesse James kind of thing going on. It just seems imperfectly executed.
804
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:22,200
Yeah, we talked about these scenes that appear to be on of order, where they're practicing, shooting their guns and the X-seeing.
805
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:29,200
Stealing the guns. I assume stealing the guns. And they don't have money, but yet they all can get a change of wardrobe.
806
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:33,200
Well, they're constantly changing cars. They're stealing cars all the time because they're on the move and they're being chased.
807
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:42,200
They have to change their vehicles so that they're less identifiable. But whatever clothes they have or somehow making this trip, all these guns are somehow making this trip.
808
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:50,200
Yeah. And that book on Billy the Kid is somehow making this trip. You see that running to a car in a hurry, but nothing is ever being carried with them.
809
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:59,200
It's just like a video game where you dip into your digital bag to grab something when you need it. And when you don't need it, it's not there anymore.
810
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:05,200
We never actually see them steal a car except for the Mustang at the beginning. And we know we didn't have anything on him then.
811
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:07,200
He had his little blanket roll.
812
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:10,200
Oh, the book could have been tacked in there, but I don't think it was a right now.
813
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:16,200
No, it was a huge book. It's like a giant textbook size tomm and the blanket roll was tightly rolled. It wasn't that.
814
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:20,200
It was like I'm dragging around a bath bat. You're not able to smuggle a book in there.
815
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:22,200
So a shotgun definitely wouldn't have fit in there.
816
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:26,200
No, no guns whatsoever. He didn't have guns on him when he stole the car.
817
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:29,200
And we only see the guitar in the one scene. Maybe they rented it.
818
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:33,200
That could be just a loner.
819
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:38,200
I went to the musical instrument library to borrow a guitar. Maybe tank top since Lee the shirts too.
820
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:46,200
Just movie. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense in the first scene after he steals the car. And he basically hides from the cop chasing him.
821
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:52,200
He doesn't have to go out and harass the cop afterwards. He could just hang behind and the cop would never have found it.
822
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:56,200
He could just drive off in the other direction with his stolen car safely underneath him.
823
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:58,200
You could, but that's not what Billy the Kid would have done.
824
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:04,200
Yeah, but it just makes him look really stupid from the get go. And it doesn't make me like him.
825
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,200
Nothing in this movie makes me like.
826
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:13,200
Oh, it makes him cocky. Yes. Like I said, the unearned confidence of a Marjoe Gortner is on full display in this movie.
827
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:14,200
And it's obnoxious.
828
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:20,200
A while back we did food of the gods and that film had Marjoe Gortner in it as well as Blinda Balaski.
829
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:25,200
She's funny in this movie. I probably liked Marjoe Gortner better here than in Food of the Gods.
830
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:29,200
Here's an outlaw. There's a football player always playing against type.
831
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:32,200
Blinda Balaski is kind of the comic relief.
832
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:36,200
It seems like maybe they were trying to go for that, even though they give her the tragic ending.
833
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:40,200
Well, she said in an interview that she knows you couldn't compete with Lynda Carter.
834
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:44,200
So she wanted to go characters. So it was her idea to wear the glasses and the hippie costume.
835
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:48,200
Yeah. And I think that was a good choice because the made her character seem spunky.
836
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:51,200
She seemed like a character. Yeah. It definitely made her stand on the film.
837
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:55,200
I think she is the stand out in this film. Oh, yeah. I was going to say Jesse Vint.
838
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:59,200
But I like him so much less than this movie that I did in Macon County line.
839
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:05,200
I enjoyed that movie so much. And comparing those two performances, he definitely comes out on the losing end here.
840
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:07,200
This performance here is just kind of weird.
841
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:11,200
I guess he had lived a lot of his lines and they're all strange.
842
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:13,200
Don't let your meat loaf.
843
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:18,200
Hard man is good to find. He calls the guy cheesehead.
844
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:22,200
His hair looks wildly unkempt. It's just a mess in this movie.
845
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:26,200
Yeah. If I didn't know where I'd know him from, I would know I'd know him from somewhere.
846
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:29,200
Never would have placed him as being the guy in Macon County Line.
847
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:32,200
No. It's weird to see him without his brother too.
848
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:36,200
Maybe his brother could have been the Outlaw in this movie. That might have been a little better.
849
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:38,200
Yeah. That probably wouldn't have been better.
850
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:42,200
And it's within AIP's budget too. So retroactively, I recommend that.
851
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:45,200
I do love Lynda Carter in this despite her various silliness.
852
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,200
And I think that's just because I love Lynda Carter.
853
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:51,200
I love her current stance on politics and how she is on social media now.
854
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:55,200
I love Wonder Woman. She is a hero of mine.
855
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:58,200
And I just really wanted to see her in this movie.
856
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:01,200
It's her film debut. I'll forgive her goofy line readings.
857
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,200
It's just nice to see her. She's a bright light in this movie.
858
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:09,200
While Linda will ask you might be to stand out in the film, I think Linda Carter is really the reason to watch the movie.
859
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:12,200
Definitely. She has a great energy here.
860
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:19,200
Even though she's over the top sometimes because her desire to unleash mayhem on others doesn't come from anywhere.
861
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:23,200
It just comes because she has this boring life that she wants to make interesting.
862
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:26,200
She does some really terrible things in order to get there.
863
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:28,200
She shoots people and she loves it.
864
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:31,200
There's a line when they're buying ice cream and they're looking at the paper.
865
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:34,200
And she's looking at the picture and she says he's so cute.
866
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:38,200
And the way she says it, it sounds so real, but it doesn't sound like her character.
867
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:41,200
So it's one of those other weird line readings in this film.
868
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,200
Yeah. I didn't even notice that one.
869
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:46,200
It does seem weird that she poned in on Lyle.
870
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,200
Immediately, her character did anyway.
871
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:51,200
And she had no qualms about jumping in the car with this curly haired stranger.
872
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:56,200
So she wanted to live on the edge because some really bad things could have happened.
873
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:57,200
That's what I could have called a movie.
874
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,200
Bobbie Jo and the curly haired stranger.
875
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:00,200
There we go.
876
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:08,200
I guess I can see where they're dry alive in between her overly religious drunk mom and her oring life.
877
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:15,200
And then getting this opportunity to lead this exciting movie life of being an outlaw or just being the woman of an outlaw.
878
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:16,200
And she's young.
879
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:18,200
I guess she's supposed to be just out of high school here.
880
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:21,200
Even though Lynda Carter is about 24 when the movie was filmed.
881
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:26,200
I know they had some new scenes in this movie, but they didn't just have her here because she has a nice rack.
882
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:29,200
She added more to the film than brief glimpses of her breasts.
883
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:34,200
No, that was just done for the exploitation element, I think, because they didn't need to be here.
884
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:40,200
No, twice during a sexy and we see them, but it's just once when she's changing tops with her mom right behind her.
885
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,200
And it just seems really innocent, honestly, when she's doing that.
886
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:47,200
Like she doesn't wear a bra, so she just changes from one tank top to another.
887
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:49,200
It's not a big deal here.
888
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:50,200
No, it's not.
889
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:53,200
And the sex scenes are pretty brief and easy to ignore.
890
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:55,200
So I don't think it's that huge of a deal.
891
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:57,200
It's not the reason to watch this movie by any means.
892
00:54:57,200 --> 00:55:03,200
I think I would have made the ending different if it was up to me because the ending leaves us with share of Hicks.
893
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:04,200
We don't care about.
894
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:11,200
And Bobbie Jo gets taken away to we don't know what I would have stayed with her and put the camera in the back.
895
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:15,200
See the cop car with her looking out the back window at the body of her lover.
896
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:17,200
She's a lost her sister. She's a lost her lover.
897
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,200
She's going to jail.
898
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:22,200
And with a different song, we could have had a much more poignant ending here.
899
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:26,200
This movie goes from a silly adventure to a tragedy, which is of course inevitable.
900
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:30,200
But it would be nice if the music marked that for us in the ending too.
901
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:34,200
Otherwise, it's just sure of Hicks and his men walking away from the dead bodies,
902
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,200
sprawled out on the pavement and doing nothing with them.
903
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:39,200
That's it. It's over.
904
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:41,200
We get to listen to those city lights.
905
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:42,200
I don't want to hear that again.
906
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:49,200
I want to hear something like maybe Desperado by the Eagles, which was the original title of the movie, based on the song.
907
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:52,200
Yeah, that would be fitting, but there's no way they could have afforded that.
908
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:53,200
Of course not.
909
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:56,200
But something like that would have been better.
910
00:55:56,200 --> 00:56:03,200
Linda Balaski said that it was her boyfriend at the time who wrote the "Are You Lonely Like Me" song or Linda Carter to sing.
911
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:05,200
So why couldn't you have penned something else?
912
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:07,200
Probably budgetary reasons again.
913
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:12,200
Yeah, anything, anything would have been better, even silence, incidental music, anything.
914
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:20,200
There is one other piece of music in this film that plays during the opening credits, during the "Please Chase" when Lyle is recently stolen that car.
915
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:29,200
And I think there was music in the scene where he jumps over the trailer when he's on the run from the cops and Bobby Joe and Essier in the car, and then the cop car emulates after that.
916
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:30,200
How strange is that?
917
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:33,200
It's so funny what explodes and what doesn't in this movie.
918
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:36,200
There's no physics to it. It doesn't make sense.
919
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:43,200
The cop car at the beginning took a bigger tumble, and it's fine, but the one that went over the ramp and just off the road.
920
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:50,200
It just lands in a field and comes to a hard break, and then poof, it explodes. It completely explodes.
921
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:54,200
It's not just a fire erupts in the gas tank. It detonates.
922
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:56,200
And then the trailer explodes.
923
00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:59,200
But the other cop cars that get into action is still unexplored.
924
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:05,200
And somehow, Sheriff Hicks' car is able to lift itself up into a bus and through it.
925
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:09,200
There's no ramp there. Ordinarily, you would just hit the side of the vehicle.
926
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:10,200
You'd probably go under it.
927
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:14,200
Not a school bus. You would ram into it. You wouldn't leap in the air and go through it.
928
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:16,200
Yeah, he'd dig it somewhere or somehow.
929
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:19,200
It's so weird. The scene where he's really pretty in this movie though.
930
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:20,200
I'd like to make some.
931
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:26,200
It's a beautiful state, and we do see a lot of it as they drive around and stop at ruins or old churches.
932
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:28,200
The various locations where they filmed.
933
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:33,200
I read an article in an albacricky paper, and they seemed to be excited that the movie was filmed there.
934
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:38,200
They weren't too excited about which movie it was, but they appreciated seeing the beauty of their state.
935
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:43,200
I'm reminded of an older film that we looked at, which was another Bonnie and Clyde story that took place in New Mexico.
936
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:45,200
That was "Bunny O'Hare."
937
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:49,200
And we didn't get the scenery in that film that we got in Bobbie Jo in the Outlaw.
938
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:53,200
No, we didn't. We were inside most of the time or in tight shots.
939
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,200
It's been a lot of time in their trailer.
940
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:59,200
This is a lot more scenic. And there was time in a trailer, but we also got to see the great outdoors.
941
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:06,200
At the end, this is just four or five really dumb people dying or getting arrested for no good reason.
942
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:08,200
Other than they wanted to be glorified.
943
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:11,200
And this movie doesn't really glorify their crimes.
944
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:14,200
When "Bunny O'Hare" people were excited by this.
945
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:16,200
They loved how they were sticking it to the man.
946
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:19,200
But nobody was cheering for Bobbie Jo in the outlaw here.
947
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:24,200
Well, I think Slick was probably the big problem in that because he kept on killing people willy-nilly.
948
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:27,200
That wasn't Lyle's way of thinking.
949
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:29,200
Yeah, it's not his MO.
950
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:33,200
He would do it self-defense. If somebody's got a little gun on him, he's going to shoot first because he can.
951
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:36,200
He's the fastest straw in whatever kind of thing he finds himself in.
952
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:40,200
But he is only getting shot at because he started it.
953
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:42,200
He's not morally pure here.
954
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:46,200
He goes into a shop or a bank with his gun and he gets shot at.
955
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:48,200
Well, that's what you get, dude.
956
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:50,200
He's not, but he's an outlaw.
957
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:51,200
I know.
958
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:52,200
He's a self-advited outlaw.
959
00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:54,200
He says it during his trip.
960
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:56,200
Make sure everybody knows where his head's at.
961
00:58:56,200 --> 00:59:00,200
He says it again and right after that when he finds himself another police chase.
962
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:01,200
The posse is after me.
963
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:03,200
I think that was a self-fulfilling prophecy.
964
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:06,200
I do get that he just wants to steal stuff.
965
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:08,200
He doesn't want to get anybody killed.
966
00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:11,200
And you need a gun to get people to do what you want.
967
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:13,200
So if he had his way, nobody would get shot.
968
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:17,200
He'd just get the money, the guns, whatever he's going there for.
969
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:22,200
But you can't expect people who work at a gun shop not to try and shoot you when you steal guns from them.
970
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:25,200
So either he's really dumb or he doesn't care.
971
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:32,200
I think we need to know more about Slick's backstory because he comes in here and he's the killer in this movie.
972
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:34,200
So what was he doing before?
973
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:40,200
I mean, he immediately enlists Lyle to drive him on his job where he's robbing a payroll or something.
974
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:44,200
Well, they call him a no-good chiseler, which makes it seem like his level is petty crime.
975
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:48,200
He's a two-bit operator, yeah, but he's willing to kill though.
976
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:53,200
He brought a gun, really would have shot at the guard who ended up being killed by Lyle.
977
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:58,200
Right, he kills that big manager really easily and he's let's Deputy Gance's throat in the barber chair.
978
00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:01,200
And that's really bloodthirsty. He did not have to do that.
979
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:04,200
There's nothing that Gance could have done to him. They could have just left.
980
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:08,200
Yeah, so a lot of trouble that Lyle finds in the cell thing is because of the company he's keeping.
981
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:12,200
He did as Bobbie Jo. Could it just be the two of us and she's like, oh no.
982
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:16,200
So she wanted it to be a big group project and he wanted it to just be solo with her.
983
01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:25,200
So had they kept it to just Bobbie Jo and the outlaw, the crime spree might have been a lot more lengthy and effective and less fatal for everybody involved.
984
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:31,200
No, it's still had to be fatal because it's lines up being the bonnank Clyde story and they have to die at the end.
985
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:35,200
But Bobbie Jo didn't die. But she didn't. This is an exception to the trope.
986
01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:39,200
She'll be sent to a women's prison for eight years and then she'll get out and try to rebuild her life.
987
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:43,200
Unless she's accused of being a squealer in which case she might not make it eight years.
988
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:47,200
She's not in Juvie,Jeff. I don't know if they behave that way in a women's prison.
989
01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:49,200
Yeah, Girls in Prison coming up. Let's see what that brings.
990
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:54,200
Well, it's time to put a grade on this bad boy using our AIP scale where A is awesome.
991
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:58,200
I as an immediate and piece pathetic. What would you give Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw?
992
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:08,200
Well, I really wasn't sure where to place this. I was falling between A and I and A and I every time I watched this and even going through it last night, the final time.
993
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:14,200
I still wasn't sure where I was going to place this, but going through this read through today and going over the plot.
994
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:19,200
I think I really like this film. There's a lot of stuff that's wrong with it. It's very goofy.
995
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:23,200
It's definitely got its problems. A lot of illogical situations here.
996
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:28,200
Like a variety in the soundtrack gives it a ding. But all in all, I think it's a fun movie.
997
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:34,200
It's definitely good drive-in fare. And if you're looking for a good exploitation movie, this would fit the bill.
998
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:35,200
I'm going to give this one an A.
999
01:01:35,200 --> 01:01:40,200
I kind of had a feeling you're going to fall on the A side of it. And I think I do too.
1000
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:50,200
Like I said, I chose this movie knowing what we would be in for with the Marjoe Gortner starring role and the subject matter where it's about people who commit crimes.
1001
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:55,200
It can't turn out well. But what happens along the way? It's fun to watch. It's fun to watch their progression.
1002
01:01:55,200 --> 01:02:01,200
A lot of times it's repetitive, but I think they changed it up enough that you can keep interested.
1003
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:05,200
I definitely recommend that people watch this movie and it's not hard to find.
1004
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:09,200
So you should have no trouble getting your hands on it. Lynda Carter is really good.
1005
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:17,200
And if you like Lynda Carter, you're going to like this movie. Marjoe Gortner, if you don't like him, you'll still like this movie. It's got enough going for it.
1006
01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:19,200
You just seem dire at the end if you don't like it.
1007
01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:25,200
Yeah, the silly freeze frame scene. He gets what's coming to him. And basically everybody does, except for poor Essie.
1008
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:33,200
She didn't deserve to go out like that. But yeah, I didn't mind watching this a second time in our slow progression through the plot.
1009
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:42,200
It helped me appreciate it more. And as always, I'm drawing distinction between what constitutes a, in quotes, good movie with what constitutes a movie that I like.
1010
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:49,200
And no, it's not an award-winning kind of movie. It's exploitation. But it's exploitation in a good way.
1011
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:53,200
And you'll enjoy it if you watch it the same way I did. So yeah, giving it an A.
1012
01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:57,200
And this film can definitely scratch an itch. Good way to put it.
1013
01:02:57,200 --> 01:03:05,200
To find out more about Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw and other films we've reviewed on American International Podcast, please visit our website, aippod.com.
1014
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1015
01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:19,200
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1016
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:23,200
And while you're there, if you want to leave a comment, feel free to do so. We'd love to hear from you.
1017
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And now I think it's time for us to ride off into the sunset. For the American International Podcast, I'm Cheryl Lightfoot.
1018
01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:33,200
And I'm Jeff Markin. And we'll meet you at the drive-in.
1019
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1020
01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:53,200
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1021
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:57,200
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