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| Robert Blake in CORKY Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 |
An early 1970's hybrid of small-town-dragster TWO LANE BLACKTOP, centering on two young motorheads rolling in a souped-up hot rod, and the exposition-through-flashback IN COLD BLOOD: as CORKY also stars Robert Blake, here as a spitfire Southerner yearning to become a stock car driving champion, before eventually getting lethal...
Which occurs in the last ten minutes, feeling more like the beginning of the final act instead of the entire movie's violent conclusion in what's an otherwise creatively-shot, open road exploitation where an intense and free-wheeling, strangely optimistic yet equally brooding Blake is surrounded by some topnotch actors...
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Robert Blake in CORKY with Patrick O'Neal
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Usually cast as sophisticated villains, and somewhat awkward as grungy rural locals: Ben Johnson and Laurence Luckinbill play crooked race chiefs while Patrick O'Neal is Blake's initial race-team boss... who may or may not be cheating on a wife far too gorgeous for either Blake or his character...
Although French model Charlotte Rampling (who also provided flashback sequences in the speeding car classic VANISHING POINT) does a pretty good imitation of a Southern girl stuck with two babies, mostly bookending a 90-minute romp where the only truly befitting actor Christopher Connelly is Blake's primary sidekick...
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Christopher Connelly in CORKY
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After nearly an hour of sporadic figure-8 racing, filmed with bombastic documentary-style vehicle-crashing relish (perfectly suited for the muscle-car decade), the duo head off to a big race on a hopelessly futile journey where CORKY becomes a good-old-boys road-movie collection of in-and-out-of-trouble vignettes (featuring underused bar-girl Pamela Payton-Wright)...
That's ultimately more of a bleak character-study about an oblivious loser, as Blake... a famous Italian actor aesthetically miscast as a Southern hillbilly... is otherwise well-suited for his signature ability to not only go against the grain, but exist as if nothing and no one else or exists or matters — especially when stuck on a literally dead-end road.
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| Robert Blake in CORKY |
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Robert Blake in CORKY with Ben Johnson
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| Robert Blake in CORKY |
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| Pamela Payton-Wright in CORKY |
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| Charlotte Rampling in CORKY with Robert Blake |
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| Charlotte Rampling in CORKY |
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| Charlotte Rampling in CORKY with Robert Blake |
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Charlotte Rampling in CORKY with Robert Blake
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| Robert Blake in CORKY |
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| Robert Blake in CORKY |
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Robert Blake in CORKY with Ben Johnson
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Christopher Connelly in CORKY with Robert Blake
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| Pamela Payton-Wright in CORKY |
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Charlotte Rampling in CORKY with Patrick O'Neal
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| Patrick O'Neal in CORKY |
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| From director Leonard J. Horn's CORKY |
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| Robert Blake in CORKY |
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| Robert Blake in CORKY |
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| Christopher Connelly in CORKY with Robert Blake |
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| Pamela Payton-Wright in CORKY |
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| John Gruber in CORKY |
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| Charlotte Rampling in CORKY |
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| John Gruber in CORKY |
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| Leonard J. Horn's CORKY with Robert Blake |
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