Um Kopf und Kragen (1978)

Um Kopf und Kragen: Directed by Hal Needham. With Burt Reynolds, Jan-Michael Vincent, Sally Field, Brian Keith. Hollywood aging stuntman Sonny Hooper wants to prove that he’s still got what it takes to be a great professional in this risky and under-recognized line of work.

“Well, another funny-profane-interesting-irreverent Burt Reynolds movie of the 1970s. He made so many of these type of films, several with his girlfriend at the time, Sally Field. Almost all of them have the same feel to them.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eField echos Reynolds good looks and bad morals by running around in a tight shirt with her nipples showing and pair of short shorts with a butt sticking out. This is not untypical of the movies in the 1970s, where u0026quot;freedomu0026quot; had arrived and many filmmakers abused it. No one had more fun with those low-moral characters than Reynolds (and Fields, I suspect, too).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eYet, I have to admit most of the Reynolds films, including this one, were never boring and usually fun to watch. Being young and a bit immature helped us appreciate these movies back then.”