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PATRICK WAYNE AND LINDSAY BLOOM DRIVING 'TEXAS DETOUR'

Title: TEXAS DETOUR Year: 1978 Rating: ***

In the 1970's there was what's called Vanspoitation films... young people cruising in groovy vans... but for TEXAS DETOUR, that aspect is a jumping-off point, beginning with would-be Memphis musician family Patrick Wayne, Mitch Vogel and Lindsay Bloom driving across the titular Lone Star State before their beloved vehicle's stolen in a one-horse town... with the usual rich guy who runs the town, and a sheriff forced to appease him...

While the lanky and aesthetically-formidable BURNT OFFERINGS chauffeur Anthony James is that important town-owner's spoiled, wild-card son, instantly smitten with the spunky Bloom after they're stranded without wheels...

Mitch Vogel, Lindsay Bloom, Patrick Wayne & Anthony James in TEXAS DETOUR

While the family works at patriarchal Cameron Mitchell's ranch until they can afford to move on, TEXAS DETOUR finds its central romance between great-looking Patrick Wayne and blonde bombshell Priscilla Barnes, who's Mitchell's daughter/James's rich-girl-with-a-heart-of-gold sister...

And while Wayne and Barnes's opposites-attract tryst could have led into an intriguing melodrama aspect with semi-thriller elements (while Lindsay Bloom romances Michael Mullins and Mitch Vogel's paired with Kathy O'Dare), DETOUR remains just that... a middling dusty-blue-jeans hangout flick that goes in one ear, out the other.

Patrick Wayne, Priscilla Barnes and Kathy O'Dare in TEXAS DETOUR

Patrick Wayne and Priscilla Barnes in TEXAS DETOUR
Lindsay Bloom in TEXAS DETOUR
Mitch Vogel and Kathy O'Dare in TEXAS DETOUR
Lindsay Bloom in TEXAS DETOUR with Mitch Vogel
Lindsay Bloom in TEXAS DETOUR
Anthony James and Priscilla Barnes in TEXAS DETOUR
Lindsay Bloom in TEXAS DETOUR and Mitch Vogel
Lindsay Bloom in TEXAS DETOUR
Priscilla Barnes in TEXAS DETOUR
Lindsay Bloom in TEXAS DETOUR with Mitch Vogel
Priscilla Barnes in TEXAS DETOUR
Priscilla Barnes and Cameron Mitchell in TEXAS DETOUR
Lindsay Bloom in TEXAS DETOUR with Patrick Wayne and Mitch Vogel
Lindsay Bloom in TEXAS DETOUR
Lindsay Bloom in TEXAS DETOUR
Lindsay Bloom in TEXAS DETOUR
Patrick Wayne and Priscilla Barnes in TEXAS DETOUR
Kathy O'Dare in TEXAS DETOUR with Mitch Vogel, Priscilla Barnes and Patrick Wayne
Kathy O'Dare and Mitch Vogel in TEXAS DETOUR
Kathy O'Dare and Mitch Vogel in TEXAS DETOUR
Kathy O'Dare and Mitch Vogel in TEXAS DETOUR
Lindsay Bloom and Michael Mullins in TEXAS DETOUR
Lindsay Bloom and Mitch Vogel in TEXAS DETOUR
Patrick Wayne in TEXAS DETOUR
Patrick Wayne and Priscilla Barnes in TEXAS DETOUR
Patrick Wayne and Priscilla Barnes in TEXAS DETOUR
Anthony James in TEXAS DETOUR
Patrick Wayne and RG Armstrong in TEXAS DETOUR
Cameron Mitchell, Anthony James and Priscilla Barnes in TEXAS DETOUR
Priscilla Barnes in TEXAS DETOUR
Patrick Wayne and Priscilla Barnes in TEXAS DETOUR
Priscilla Barnes in TEXAS DETOUR
From TEXAS DETOUR
Priscilla Barnes in TEXAS DETOUR
Priscilla Barnes in TEXAS DETOUR
Cameron Mitchell and Priscilla Barnes in TEXAS DETOUR
Patrick Wayne and Lindsay Bloom in TEXAS DETOUR
Patrick Wayne, Mitch Vogel and Lindsay Bloom in TEXAS DETOUR
Patrick Wayne and RG Armstrong in TEXAS DETOUR
Priscilla Barnes in TEXAS DETOUR
From TEXAS DETOUR
Patrick Wayne and Priscilla Barnes in TEXAS DETOUR

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