Highway 66 (1984)

Highway 66: Directed by John Mark Robinson. With Willem Dafoe, Judge Reinhold, Kaaren Lee, Kate Vernon. An ex-rock and roll star teams up with a naive young man to set things right in a small town where the local thugs rule unchallenged.

“Lemme see if I done got this right:u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHayseed peoples they be peoples too and most of your cinema pickings theyu0026#39;s for city folks with pretensions and academic duh-grees and walking around using fancy French words and stuff like that.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut a good old boy likes a good barroom brawl now and then and some cute dixie chicks – and you should have more skin than Daisy used to show on prime time – and oh but we gotta have a great big old car race with clumsy looking backwoods Chevy 56s and 57s and they gotta rev their engines like they got no mufflers no more.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnd we gotta have some good old country picking through this here race and – intermittently as they say – throughout the movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut hereu0026#39;s the trick: you donu0026#39;t almost have to pay nobody any good money to do no good cos them hayseeds what like movies like this they donu0026#39;t know much about no film making anyways, and as long as ya got the obligatory nudie bonk with female nipple and round female breast in subdued light and stuff and someone playing whou0026#39;s ostensibly studying James Burton on guitar, then thatu0026#39;s real fine Slim – theyu0026#39;ll never notice the difference! No way!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnd the money keeps on coming in… And who said money doesnu0026#39;t make the world go u0026#39;round?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePS. For the best laugh of all, waiting until the closing titles – listen to the music! The people who made this movie – who are these people? Oh goodness.”