The Great Texas Dynamite Chase [DVD]

I liked it because it was a straight good time lampoon of the Sundance Kid, Bonnie and Clyde and all rob and run movies.

If anyone out there besides me watched "Thelma and Louise" and wondered why they had to drive off that stupid cliff at the end, and how exactly that denoted a "happy" and "satisfying" ending, you're gonna love this movie. Funny enough, "the Great Texas Dynamite Chase" got it just right about 15 or so years earlier.Yes, yes - the title is quite ridiculous, but do not (I repeat, DO NOT) let this scare you away. Women robbing banks with nothing but dynamite? Genius. It's filled with the kind of... female empowerment that was strangely only tolerated in the context of a cheapie exploitation film. It's loaded with what I've dubbed "Charlie's Angels" feminism -- that is to say, the women may appear to be tantalizing packages, but try to unwrap them on anything less than their terms and KA-POW! Duck and cover baby! Besides, in this day of sexual taboos, it's pleasantly refreshing to see a movie that treats sex as fun and inconsequential. (Ahhh, those were the days, eh?) Plus, it stars underrated drive-in superstar Claudia Jennings, who gives a typically fever-pitched, ballsy performance despite suffering a back injury midway through filming.It's high time this film was re-released after long being unavailable. Hey, Corman - how about following suit with "Unholy Rollers"?

What a great movie! Others have summed up the plot here already. Claudia Jennings, a beautiful Playboy Playmate, played in this movie. She was tragically killed in a automobile accident back in the late 70's. Johnny Crawford who played a little boy in the TV show "The Rifleman" is here for a romp. He wasn't too bad, but his love scene in the movie with that horrible song in the background didn't help matters much. All in all this is a great movie, with good music and some great scenes like when the dynamite wouldn't work when lit and it made like a light raspberry sound. I saw this flick many years ago at a theater in San Francisco called the Pix, a little place where you had to keep your feet off the floor for the rats that were crawling about. The audience was cheering and catcalling throughout the whole thing. It was great!

definitely a movie that you can watch while you are doing something else because it doesn't take a lot of concentration and everything moves in a pretty predictable fashion, but I really liked it it was just plain funa nd won't burn out a single brain cell. - Mindless fun.

Very happy with the product and the on-time delivery definitely would do business with the seller again

I'm only giving this movie two stars out of sheer nostalgia, basically.I first saw this godawful bomb in 1977 sitting around with a bunch of otherLong Island, NY adolescents and miscreants (the names will not be divulgedto protect the guilty) watching it on cable TV (I was all ofnine years old and lacked cable TV at my own house) flipping the channels alsowatching Animal House and whatever else was on while the adults were downstairsand blissfully ignorant of all this. Anyway, Dynamite Chase was only interesting at thetime due to the prospect of seeing Claudia Jennings and Jocelyn Jones do their thing and take off theirclothes, with any luck. And they do, but not enough, alas. Anyway, whenyou're nine years old and have almost no clue whatsoever about sex, this movie might bescintillating in some perverse way, it was for me, and I recall being almost disturbed by theshootout at the end where Crawford gets it from the two sheriffs with shotguns with all that preposterous,fake as hell looking Roger Corman ketchup for blood: I've never seen more Heinz 57come squirting out of a guy with a cowboy hat before I saw this film, then or now.I was traumatized in 1977 but almost split my sides witnessing this nonsense at age 44in 2013!This is an entertainingly, yet gloriously stupid film, even though I know I havepermanently lost all those precious remaining brain cells that were destroyed all over again watchingthis the other night for the first time 1977. The girls were both cuties but notso much that they're not believable in their roles as amateur bank robbers, I'll givethem that, they actually do both come off as just regular Texas chicks on a long bender.But gosh they both look like they need to eat a few more cheeseburgers! And let'shave a serious moment here for poor Claudia Jennings, I've read what happened to her over thepast several years and I was very sorry to hear about her dying so young and all that, awful.It's no Godfather or Dog Day Afternoon (to put it mildly), but if you want to turn off your brain and watch somereally ridiculous 1970s chicksploitation action trash cinema this is a prime place tostart. It's so unrelentingly cheesy, as is the wretched and annoying, nearly creepy/inane soundtrack. Thegoopy song being played during Jocelyn and "Slim" Crawford's "love scene" in the hotel may stay withyou, and not in a good way, and haunt your brain forever! Be warned. It is hideousnesspersonified. At least Slim takes off his hat for the proceedings.As is this film, but for some weird reason, despite it decimating myIQ points frame by frame, it, bafflingly, retains a soft spot in my heart for corrupting my youthfulmorals in 1977, so in that context, I still enjoy the Dynamite Chase for its stupidgloriousness and the sight of the lovely Claudia Jennings nekked and Jocelyn Jones' perky it's alwayscold out here in the Texas mid-day sun cleavage saying howdy through her tight cotton top.The ending is so corny I thought Orville Redenbacher was gonna come ride down the Mexican Borderhills alongside the girls on their trusty, stolen steeds! Yep, into the sunset. But this ludicrousdesecration of celluloid is STILL so much better, even as a truly wretched 1970s bomb, than the reallyannoyingly contrived Thelma and Louise. I'm assuming Joe Bob Briggs loves this movie, and well he should!

So, this is where they came up with the idea for "Thelma and Louise!" This movie was much better. Hollyweird isn't capable of an original idea or thought. This is why I like the old stuff. It makes the new stuff look pathetic.