Rebel Highway: Dragstrip Girl

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[music]

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A boy from the wrong side of the tracks.
Come on, Johnny.
You're gonna ruin a good thing.
I'm gonna get a good thing.
An a American girl.
He is trash, Laura.
I don't think so.
You go out.
Your mother and I will put youin a convent.
You wanna ride?
Together, their love...
What?
...is high octane.

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No!
[music]
Natasha Gregson Wagner,
Mark Dacoscos,
Raymond Cruz, Traci Lords.
You didn't.
I did.
Dragstrip Girl.
We're not talking about actors.
We mean a real monster.
I brought her back.

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She'll live and I'll get her another body.
I know they’re gonna catch me,
but don't let anyone see me like that! Please, Doctor, help me!
Biologically speaking, it's of primary importance that man should want to mate.
Hey, that’s right!
You don't get all your kicks from surfing, do you?
We wanna be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man.
[music]
And we wanna get loaded.

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You think you're gonna make a slave of the world?
I'll see you in Hell first!
The American International Podcast.
Are you ready?
You found the American International Podcast. I'm Jeff Markin.
I'm Cheryl Lightfoot.
And today's stop along Rebel Highway is Dragstrip Girl, the seventh episode.
Dragstrip Girl first aired on September 2nd, 1994.

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Dragstrip Girl was written by Jerome Gary, directed by Mary Lambert,
produced by Lou Arkoff, Debra Hill, and Willie Kutner, for Showtime Networks.
Dragstrip Girl stars Mark Dacoscos as Johnny Ramirez.
Natasha Gregson Wagner as Laura Bickford.
Marie Celedonio as Pearl, Christopher Crabb as Alex, Raymond Cruz as Doogie.
Frederick Coffin as Mr. Bickford, Traci Lords as Blanche, Richard Portnow as Detective Dryden,

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Tracy Wells as Megan, Agusto Cesar Sandino as Anthony.
Also appearing are G. Adam Gifford as Evan, Carolyn Mignini as Mrs. Bickford,
Gary Werntz as McCarthy, Luis Contrereas as Raoul, Bill A. Jones as Mr. Jones,
Richard Erlich as Buddy, John Bradley as Jack and Doug Toby as Louis.
As we're fitting a movie about drag strips and girls, the credits open with a room, room sound

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and pictures from the showroom of a classic car show.
Also the title Dragstrip Girl comes up and this is the second time we've seen this.
They used the exact same font that was on the poster for the title, "Screen of the Movie."
I didn't notice that, but I didn't notice that it seemed like very basic TV fonts
from the mid 90s.
They didn't really seem like movie fonts at all and I know it's a TV show,
but it's like they didn't even make the effort to give it the appearance of being cinema.

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Well, because they were giving it the appearance of the fonts on the poster.
I'm not talking about the style, I'm talking about the quality of the graphics.
Oh yeah, it looks like it's just a early character generator.
Right, yeah. Good old CG.
Anyway, we're seeing really cool cars, but they don't really have a lot to do with this movie.
No, it's just kind of a quick car montage to play over the opening credits.

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And we hear the song "Lights Out" performed by Los Lobos. Who did that originally?
The original was by Jerry Burns.
Well, this is a really good version.
Yeah, it's a nice rock and belly beat.
Which is good because we're going to hear it again and again.
The song ends and the movie starts.
A car hop, his name is Johnny.
We can tell because it's written on his shirt.
Otherwise, we probably have no idea who anybody's name is in this movie.
This movie seems very committed to not letting us know who the characters are.

(03:28):
And Johnny is grinding a key.
At first, that's all we see is him making this key.
And I was like, well, does he work at Home Depot?
What's his job? And then it pulls back and we see that he's a valet outside a supper club.
And this is set in the 50s, like all these movies are.
So he's parking these really fancy 50s cars, convertibles, catalax, thunderbirds, really nice cars.

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And if he's making a key out in the open like that, he's obviously up to no good.
Why would you need me copies of your customers' keys?
Well, if you're a valet, you lose your keys. It's really embarrassing.
So maybe it's just insurance.
Yeah, right. I guess that would be a plausible explanation maybe, because they're not trying to hide it at all.
Well, that would be the only plausible honest explanation for that.

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Anyway, one of his co-workers comes up.
Co-worker and friend, this is Doogie, and he tells him that Cinderella is waiting for her car.
Cinderella is a girl that Johnny has had eyes on for a while.
He doesn't know her and she doesn't know him, but he's smitten nonetheless.
She's just a pretty girl. She's with her boyfriend and a letterman jacket and her parents.
But I guess she drove herself because the car that Johnny sent to fetch is her thunderbird.

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Yeah, and he kind of ramps accident before he goes to return it to her.
He goes to the glove compartment and creeps the address off her registration.
So we know that he's got his stalker plan in action.
He's not going to say hello to her. He's going to go find her the dead of night, whether she wants to see him or not.
Johnny is not ready to confront this girl just yet.
So he sends Evan with the car to return it.
Johnny goes back to the ballet station where his friend Doogie tells him that this girl is ice and he doesn't have what it takes to melt her.

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Then Laura, the girl, gets into the driver's side and her date Alex gets in the passenger side and they drive off.
And she drives to kind of a lookout point with a nice view of the city.
Isn't that the same one that's been every movie where two people go to be alone, but also want to see all of Los Angeles in one view?
It seems like we see that in lots of movies.
Well, Los Angeles has places like that and a lot of cities don't.

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I have never been there, but I would like to go.
Alex takes the opportunity to make a move and says that it's okay because they're going to be getting married.
I don't think she's convinced of that because she shuts him down right away.
She lights up a cigarette and it seems to totally turn Alex off.
He's obviously someone who wants to control her. He's an athlete. He's a jock. And he's probably not used to hearing no.
Because once you're a big star athlete, people do what you want them to do. And Laura's not going to comply.

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So he tells her that they better be getting back because her father told him to come back right after dinner anyway.
But she's going to finish her smoke first.
Sometimes you're worse than he is. She says.
So obviously dad is controlling as well.
And I have to just appreciate this moment where we get to know a little bit about her character.
Because it's not something this movie does in abundance.
No, there's not a lot of character development in this film for anyone.

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No, not at all. So that's it. That's all you need to know about Laura.
Back at the restaurant, the values are getting their pay for the evening. And as we suspected, they have a side hustle stealing cars and selling them for parts.
So the first sort of business is to make use of that key that Johnny was making at the beginning of the movie.
Apparently getting the address from the registration is a regular part of this.

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So they know exactly where to go. So they go to this neighborhood and have no trouble lifting that car.
Well, yeah, you have the key. It's not like they have to hotwire it.
So Johnny is driving that car. Duky is driving Johnny's car and they race down the street.
And a cop car sees them and gives chase.
Of course, there has to be a confrontation with the police here.
Because otherwise it would be smooth sailing and we can't have that.

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It's still pretty smooth sailing because they get to the intersection. Doogie goes right.
Johnny goes left and the cop kind of just spins out and gives up.
Yeah. That's all it takes to thwart the police.
Just split up and drive at a normal speed. Doogie is the one driving the hot car.
So he's the one to drop it off at the chop shop and that's run by Raoul who has help from Pearl.
Who just runs up into the garage once Duky brings a car in.

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But Pearl is not Doogie's girl.
The owner of the garage Raoul asks where Johnny is. Doogie tells them Johnny is out using diversionary tactics.
Raoul has money for Johnny and Doogie says that Raoul can give it to him.
But Raoul is not going to deal with Doogie. I don't think they have a very good relationship.
At least not yet.
Then we catch up with Johnny. He's driven out to check out Laura's house.
Obviously he wasn't going to wait on the intel he got from her glove compartment.

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It's dark. There's no one in the driveway.
So he just walks up to the car and decides to do a little more ransacking.
He finds her diary on the floor of the car and picks it up and takes it with him.
As stalkers go, I think he's a pro.
But then why would you leave your diary in your car?
A convertible in the list.
Right.
Stupid. It's not the last time we're going to say stupid in the synopsis.

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So Johnny drives home and we find out he's got a kid brother named Anthony and he's in a wheelchair.
Yes, polio, but don't feel sorry for him because he's got a great hobby.
He puts car parts together for fun and he's really good at it.
Also he has another hobby.
That's a little more salacious.
What's that?
Well, there's a hole in the wall between his room and the tenant next door.

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And then she's like their foster mother.
It doesn't matter.
All right. So next door there's a prostitute played by Traci Lords. Her name is Blanche.
She's also a friend of the family / honorary aunt.
But that doesn't stop Johnny and Anthony from peeking through that hole when she's turning tricks and enjoying the show.
And it's quite a show given that it's Traci Lords in there.
So after a minute of watching their aunt address, Johnny tells Anthony that he met a girl.

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She's beautiful, sexy and goes to a private Catholic school for rich kids.
And he has her diary.
Johnny's had quite a day and he's tired so he's going to go to bed.
And the only bed that this room has.
We wake up the next morning.
Anthony is sleeping in his chair.
And Johnny throws a blanket over him.
All the things I didn't like in this movie and there's a lot.
I didn't like that the most.
This poor kid could use a bed.

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Why can't Johnny sleep on the floor?
That's his little brother. He's got polio.
He's not in great shape.
Sleeping in a wheelchair just seems really neglectful.
He goes next door to talk to Blanche.
This is where he learns she's been fostering them.
She was friends with their mom.
Their mom died.
And she made sure that they didn't have to go into foster care.
This is also they revealed that Anthony has polio.
And then he needs to go to occupational training.

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Some authority or other has to create that this must happen.
But Johnny's not interested.
He wants to get a mechanic shop.
I guess you buy one.
He set one up and then have Anthony run it because he's a mechanical genius.
Well, Johnny does have a safe in the wall where he puts all of this tip money in his pay.
So he's keeping it.
He's saving up to make this dream a reality.
It's not just tip money and pay.
It's the money he gets for the stolen cars.

(09:53):
Oh, yeah, all of his money.
So it's a lot of money.
And what do you see what he gets used for?
The conversation is interrupted by a rattling sound from the next department.
Blanche says that Anthony's engine is driving her crazy.
And can Johnny just buy him one?
Johnny says no.
But Anthony's building can't be bought.
Well, he is a genius.
And Blanche warns Johnny to take it easy on his car stealing activity.
Because if the cops start sniffing around their place, she's a prostitute.

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She's going to get in trouble and that's going to be bad for everyone.
Well, it's going to be bad for her.
Okay, now a little glimpse into Laura's life.
Yeah, we cut away to that Rich Kids Catholic school where Laura is in archery class.
It doesn't look like real archery.

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It doesn't.
She has a bow and arrow.
So it must be archery.
I'm not sure what else it could be.
Wasn't there a cupid on the target?
It looked like fun, fair archery.
It didn't look like legitimate archery.
This movie is just ridiculous.
I didn't notice anybody else with a bow and arrow either.
So you might be right.
I thought they were some sort of afternoon festival or something.
I couldn't tell a lot of stuff that happens in this movie.

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You have to figure out what's happening as you go because they're not obvious cues as to where you are and what's going on.
So here's another one that kind of slipped past me and eventually I figured it out that they were at school.
And Johnny and Doogie are sitting on the fence.
It's like a big stone wall type fence.
Right.
And they climbed up the top and they're watching.
So they've gone up there to do their stocking.
Johnny is 21 and Laura is a high school girl.

(11:23):
She might be a senior.
She might be 16, 17.
But Johnny is a full grown man and he's sitting on top of the wall to a Catholic girl school staring at the students.
So totally cool.
Doogie doesn't see what Johnny sees in this white girl.
He calls her a skinny little girl in a uniform.
She's rich, white and country club connected.
Johnny may want that.
But Doogie thinks that what Johnny wants is totally going to destroy their business of stealing cars.

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Johnny and Doogie climb into Johnny's car along with Evan who didn't climb up the wall with them.
And then they drive away and pull into an alley and they're looking over a red convertible.
Johnny wants to impress Laura.
He's going to pretend to be something he's not.
And his car though it is pretty fast and pretty furious is not good looking.
It's a dinosaur skin car.

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That's what he calls it.
So he wants to pick her up.
Not that they have a date or anything.
And he can't do that in a car that's not impressive.
But he has found one that will fit the bill.
But Doogie reminds them that they don't touch nothing for four weeks.
They just stole those cars last night and they need to have a cooling off period between jobs.
That seems smart.
And I think that we've seen that in other movies of this genre where you can't just go on a crime spree.

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You have to pace yourself.
I don't think it was the original Dragstrip Girl.
I think it was Reform School Girl where the bad guy he was getting reckless.
And Johnny's going to get reckless.
And that's a problem.
And it's kind of funny that Doogie who's more of a hood than Johnny is supposedly is the true voice of reason and the brains behind the outfit.
He's not the star, but he's a lot smarter than Johnny.
Johnny is not worried though because he knows that the owner of this car won't get off work until five.

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And he can take it and he even have it back by then.
Not that he will.
So he tells Doogie to take his car and to meet him later.
We met the flats and they'll drag race this afternoon.
So Johnny takes the car and then goes to show it off to Laura who's just coming out of the car.
Who's just coming out of school.
She's with her friend Megan who reminds Laura that they have other obligations.
Laura doesn't care though.
She's going to throw a caution to the wind and climb in the convertible with this complete stranger.

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So Laura tells Megan to meet her at her house in an hour.
Two says Johnny.
And hour and a half Laura says and Megan warns Laura that certain people won't be happy about this.
Laura's tired of her perfect little boring life, which is controlled by people who aren't her.
Then Megan climbs into her car and drives off.
So now it's the little getting to know you portion of this date.
I guess you could call it.

(13:43):
Yeah, they both actually introduced themselves because they haven't formally met.
Nope.
She's never seen him before now.
And of course he's been eyeing her for who knows how long.
Johnny lies and tells Laura that he runs one of his rich father's businesses.
And she buys us.
The after all she likes going to the school and she says she goes there because of her daddy.
Hearing this, he compares her to Cinderella and she agrees that's a pretty accurate analogy.

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I do not though.
Cinderella, as we first meet her, is the daughter of an neglectful father whose wife turned into a scullery maid who lives in the attic and has no friends or no contact with the outside world.
So I don't think there's any Disney analogy that would work here.
Now maybe play backwards.
They're off to the dam also known as the polita flats.
Also known as their drag racing hot.

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And she's cool with this.
She likes an adventure.
She's never had one before apparently.
When they arrived, Doogie is already there with Johnny's car. Pearl is riding with Doogie.
So Johnny and Doogie each have a female passenger with him.
A ride or die.
And they race.
It's not a very exciting race.
It doesn't last very long.
No, something blows on the car that Doogie is driving.
Johnny's car.

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It's not that he can admit it in front of Laura.
So Johnny wins the race and then he has to go back and figure out what's wrong with his car.
He tells Laura he'll be right back and he asks Dugi what happened.
Doogie says he hits something and the engine started smoking.
So Johnny crawls under the car to take a look and while he's under there, Laura takes the opportunity to check her makeup.
And Pearl takes the opportunity to read Johnny the riot act.
She's Johnny's girl or at least she thought she was.

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Johnny wants to shut her up so he promises that they'll fix whatever's wrong tonight and goes to take Laura home.
He must have fixed that car pretty fast because this whole scene takes a minute.
Laura declares that this is the most fun she's ever had.
I guess rich people don't do fun things.
This is pretty sad. This tiny little race in the afternoon is the most fun she's ever had really yikes.

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And Johnny says, well now you're a Dragstrip Girl.
I think that line was just so that we could justify the title because she's not a drag strip girl now and she's not a drag strip girl ever in this movie.
She went to one drag race. She'll go to another one the end.
So Johnny takes Laura home and Laura noticed that she'd have to tell him where she lived.
But Johnny doesn't have to explain himself because Alex and Megan are outside waiting.

(15:56):
Alex looks mad.
Laura explains that Johnny gave her a ride home.
Alex doesn't buy that this is all that happened for two hours.
You must not know your way around if you took two hours to get here.
Alex tells Johnny to go back where he came from for the rest of his life.
But Johnny says that Laura needs to decide if she ever wants to see him again.
Alex agrees with this but says if Johnny does come back, he's going to have to face Alex.

(16:18):
Johnny smile says that that would be his pleasure and house back into his car and drives off.
Alex says that Johnny's trash but Laura disagrees and Megan says that he dresses like a hood.
He's not wearing a suit jacket though.
I don't know where these people get their ideas and what hoodlums look like.
Not from A.I.P movies. That's for sure.
So Johnny goes to that garage slash chop shop to hide his hot car and pearls there and she could run some.

(16:42):
She's a little irked at being summarily dumped for this white girl.
She reminds him that they're Mexican and that he's poor.
Yeah and they're not free to do what they want whenever they want like rich people can.
Although apparently rich people don't have fun.
So I think they have one up on rich people is they go drag racing.
And then she softens and says that someone needs to take care of him and she'll be happy to do that.

(17:04):
And then involves taking your skirt off and leaning against that red convertible.
Johnny goes back to her to retrieve that skirt that she dropped.
It almost looks like they're about to do it on the hood of the car.
But Johnny has second thoughts. He's got someone else in mind not Pearl.
So he pulls back and Pearl tells him that he can't just leave this car here.
He tells her to make sure that Raul doesn't break it down for a few days.
Then they get into another argument about Laura.

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Pearl says she loves Johnny for who he is and Johnny says Laura will love him for what he can be.
That's provided he can use her to get a leg up in the world.
In the garage we hear that it's starting to storm and that means the guy who's car got stolen is going to come out a little earlier than five o'clock.
Because it's a convertible and he was going to put the top up and it wasn't there so he called the cops.
So Detective Dryden is on the case and he's questioning the man about his missing car.

(17:50):
And the man is hopeful that they can find it soon.
Detective Dryden asked the man where he's been recently.
And the man says that last night he went to the supper club where we know Johnny works.
And Detective Dryden takes that information down.
Then Night Detective Dryden goes to the supper club to question Johnny.
And he asks about Johnny's key grinder.
Johnny simply says he's a businessman.
What's funny is that Doogie is there listening to all this and it seems like it's all that he can do to keep from laughing out loud.

(18:15):
He's having a good time with this interrogation is he's not involved.
Although he kind of is but nobody knows that the detective says that a man's car was stolen after he had had dinner there stolen from here as Johnny.
No stolen later says Dryden.
Johnny says he doesn't know anything about it.
But if he hears anything he'll be sure to let the detective know.
Detective Dryden gives Johnny his card and leaves and doogie warns Johnny that his luck is about to run out.

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Later on supper club aficionado Alex exits the restaurant.
He's with his buddy possibly buddies because we'll see two of them later and spots Johnny and recognizes Johnny from the other day.
He tells us buddy that Johnny pretended to be a hot shot but turns out he's just a car.
Oh, his friend says that it appears that he may need a lesson in respect.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T. I know what it means to them.

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So it's after Johnny's shift and we're in an alley.
Johnny's walking to wherever he's going his car.
Yes, suddenly some headlights turn on it's Alex and his friends.
They get out of the car and confront Johnny.
Three against one asked Johnny. No, just me says Alex and then Alex beats the snout out of Johnny and warns him to stay away from his girl.
All three of them beat him up though. It was three against one.

(19:20):
I thought the other two stood back.
They kind of passed him around. Everyone got a lick in.
So after Johnny makes his way back home he goes inside and Anthony asks what happened.
He simply says that the boy friends jealous and not to worry. It's just a bloody nose.
It looked like they got his cheek though his nose looked fine.
But Anthony tells Johnny not to worry because she's tired of him.
How does he know he reads he reads man.

(19:42):
At first I thought it meant like he reads romance novels or something.
But then I realized Anthony has been pouring over Laura's diary.
Johnny adds tonight's what of cash to the wall safe and then notices that there are noises coming from the next room.
So he peeps in to see blanche working on some guy.
The guy is a rougher and he's talking about his business.
Apparently this is part of this seduction or at least part of his road to excitement.

(20:04):
So Johnny listens to this and it's going to be important later.
So I'm mentioning it.
Then Johnny creepily asks Anthony if he's ever thought about being with her.
No way she's our aunt says Anthony, but she's not our blood says Johnny.
And he goes on to say that she's 28 and she's perfect.
Oh, the scene is so icky.
I wonder if she knows they're watching her all the time.
They're not quite about it. They're laughing and making comments.

(20:26):
And this isn't just a people in the wall. It's a big chunk of dry walls missing between the two rooms.
Next morning when Johnny wakes up, Anthony is already awake and sitting in his chair reading.
See it doesn't have a bed.
Anthony asks Johnny what Laura looks like and Johnny tells Anthony to tell him.
Anthony says that he thinks she looks like the Virgin Mary.
And Anthony knows how Johnny can get this Virgin Mary.

(20:47):
It's in the book.
Yep, it's basically an instruction manual.
Now we're back at the flats, the direct strip where doogie and Johnny go every day to race their cars,
even though only one of them has a car, at least that they own.
Laura drives up and Johnny asks her where her fella is and she says that he's at the club playing golf.

(21:10):
And she has Johnny where his car is.
He explains this in the shop so she offers a maride.
That's actually true, but not in the way that she's going to interpret it.
And he says that he's going to go to a hilltop and Johnny has a gun and he's showing it off to Laura.
And he teaches her how to shoot and they do a little practicing.
And then they kiss.
They go back to Laura's car and they kiss.
They're in broad daylight, making out in public.

(21:31):
I thought somebody for sure was going to drive by somebody that knew Laura or Johnny.
Somebody drove by and they stopped looking at the car, but then they turned to each other and they kissed.
But not anybody that mattered to the plot.
That's what I meant.
After a while, this Laura says she's got to go.
If she doesn't go now, she'll never leave him.
Johnny's okay with that, but that doesn't move the plot alone very much.
So off we go.
So she's going to take him back to pick up his car.

(21:53):
The garage is closed, but Johnny says that the manager's in the back and he'll have no trouble going back there and getting it.
And she asked if she'll see him again.
He says sure if she wants to, she suggests Saturday, but Johnny has to work.
He suggests Friday, but that's football.
She's a cheerleader.
So Johnny agrees on Saturday.
He owns the business so I guess he could take off if he wants.
And he's going to pick her up at eight o'clock.

(22:14):
Laura takes off and then we go in the garage alone.
Where Pearl is polishing the Cadillac and Rowell is there and Pearl rats Johnny out.
Yeah, she tells him all about the car that she's waxing.
It's hot and Johnny stole it and didn't follow procedures.
Not only didn't he wait for weeks, he did it just to impress a white girl.
Yes, she recommends that Raoul give Johnny's jobs to Doogie.
Doogie follows procedures.

(22:36):
Raoul is skeptical though.
Now we're back at Johnny's apartment.
Anthony and Johnny are once again spying on blanche. She attends to a well-dressed and well-connected John who can help her meet Frank Sinatra.
Johnny looks at the man and decides that he needs to dress like that.
Anthony points out that this man looks like he's the same size as Johnny.
So Johnny sneaks into blanche's room and steals the man's suit while he's in bed with blanche.

(22:59):
And then we cut away to Laura's house.
In Laura's room she's showing her friend Megan the outfit that she's planning on wearing.
She's admiring her own reflection in a mirror she's wearing black panties and a strapless black bra.
Megan is scandalized at this underwear choice.
Laura says that no one's going to see that unless she lets him and that she's thinking of maybe doing that.
Megan asks what Alex is going to think about that but Laura doesn't care.

(23:21):
She's hoping that whatever Alex thinks might be the end of their relationship.
Laura also says she's going to tell her father that Johnny is Megan's cousin.
Her father loves Megan and Megan's family.
So he'll automatically get that stamp of approval.
Megan however still thinks that Johnny's a hood.
Laura puts on a slinky red slip and leaves.
So we will never see her wear this again.
That could Johnny's apartment he's ironing the shirt that he stole while Anthony reads passages allowed from Laura's diary.

(23:45):
All Laura wants is to live in a cabin in the woods with the man she loves.
We've seen a lot of movies where Kevin's in the woods are not romantic at all.
Johnny thinks this is a corny idea but maybe he's going to make it come true.
Anthony asks Johnny if Laura has a friend for him and Johnny says he'll check.
Man this is so weird.
This kid looks like he's about 14 maybe maybe that old.

(24:07):
There's so much that's inappropriate in this movie.
So next Johnny goes to the garage to pick up his red convertible.
He's dressed to the lions with the uniform of a hood at Jack and in tie.
It's too big though. He's not that guy's size rules there and tells him that he can't take the car.
The car's not leaving unless it's leaving in a thousand pieces because the cops have been crawling the city looking for it.
Johnny whips out his gun and convinces Raoul that yes he is going to take that car.

(24:32):
But the price that Johnny's going to pay is that he's no longer rules associate.
He uses enemy. Raoul says I'm looking at a corpse in a red Cadillac.
That's the risk Johnny's willing to take so he jumps in the car and drives off.
We returned to that supper club where Detective Dryden is continuing his investigation for that stolen car.
They must have a whole lot of crime in this town because this one stolen car even though cars can be stolen all the time under this operation.

(24:56):
At least every four weeks seems to be the most important thing on the police stock it.
It's an all-consuming case for sure.
Anyway, he goes and takes possession of the key grinder.
Evan tries to tell him that he can't take it. It's private property.
The detective asks who's property and do give volunteers that it's Johnny Ramirez owner of the franchise and then offers up his home address as well.
Detective Dryden tells dogey to tell Johnny that he's looking for him.

(25:20):
So it's date night. Johnny's in talking to Mr. Bickford and impressing him with his tale of running a roofing business.
He cribbed it from one of Blanche's customers we heard him talking about it earlier and so this accounts for his fantastic tan.
Even though he gives us last name Ramirez with no indication that he's of any ethnicity whatsoever and Mrs. Bickford is just sucking down on our teeny she looks like she's already three or four in as we speak.

(25:43):
Laura comes out to join them and she's got it pretty easy because Mr. Bickford has given Johnny his seal of approval.
She looks all pretty in pink Mr. Bickford says she looks amazing and then Johnny and Laura leave then Mrs. Bickford asked her husband if he thinks Johnny is Mexican and Mr. Bickford just laughs he's Megan's cousin he's not Mexican.
His name's Ramirez that's not Mexican out in the car Laura asked what they're going to be doing tonight.

(26:06):
Johnny says they're going downtown to see some friends and in that case Laura wants to change.
She can do it here as long as Johnny promises not to look.
And so in the driveway of her own house she starts taking her clothes off I guess she had another outfit tucked in her purse because she puts on this kind of off the shoulder top and red shorts or tight red skirt or something.
So she's wearing something very casual as Johnny's wearing a suit and they go downtown to a salsa club where all the women are dressed to the nice they're wearing dresses they're dancing and Laura sticks out like a sore thumb and this stupid outfit.

(26:40):
And this club turns out not to have been the smartest place to go because although all the Johnny's friends are there this includes Pearl Raoul and Dougie who aren't on friendly terms with him at the moment.
Laura runs off to the ladies room and Doogie goes over to talk to Johnny.
Doogie tells him that the cops came around asking questions and they took that key machine Johnny says it's okay you can just get another one but that's not the point they had a good thing going and Johnny is risking it all over some white girl.

(27:05):
Then Pearl comes up to Johnny and tries to dance with him and then Raoul comes to grow with him but Johnny wants to dance with Laura who's returned from the ladies and they dance for about 30 seconds until the cops arrive.
Evan warns Johnny that the police are coming so Johnny asked Evan to take Laura to the school and who meter there in half an hour.
Johnny sneaks out the back gets into his Cadillac and alludes the cops is nobody had eyes on that car and Evan drives Laura out to the school and Laura asked why the cops are after Johnny.

(27:32):
Evan doesn't really let her in on anything though when they get to the school Johnny's already there so Evan drops her off and drives off Laura's Johnny what that was all about and he says that he was betrayed by people that he thought were his friends and since we're here she might as well show him around the school.
He's already inside the gates and she's outside the gates so she has to climb over the gate to get in and he helps her but why didn't he just wait for her outside the gates I guess we could hide.

(27:56):
He's something went down but yeah they break into the school and they go to the gym and Johnny has Laura what she does there gymnastics she says.
Yes, her to show him so she climbs up on the balance beam and does a cartwheel and that's gymnastics that's the demonstration that's all you get.
She offers to show Johnny how to do that but he's not interested he's also wearing a suit not really geared up for that she doesn't want to show him how to do a back bend has him bend backwards into her arms and of course they fall down in the mat so they can make out some more.

(28:25):
Quickly gets up and tells him to follow and they go to a bomb shelter to await the end of the world as you do she has to be thinks the world's going in and he says yes.
So naturally this is when they would have sex and they do takes her a little bit to get there because she's scared he tells her not to be scared doesn't tell her why not to be scared.
She asked them if he will always tell her the truth he lies and tells her yes and they continue.

(28:50):
Sexual interlude lasts all of 35 seconds after which Laura declares that was a lot but they've got to go it's late it's funny they show the ceiling pipe just dripping for no apparent reason in the scene is that supposed to be symbolic of something they made a point of us watching that back at Laura's house she's changed back into that dress that she left in but her dad comes charging out the door followed by Alex seems like everybody's drunk and angry.

(29:17):
Alex makes sure everyone knows that Johnny's just a car hop driving around in a stolen car Johnny tries to get into it with Alex Alex says he's got to take care of Laura right now.
High behind her skirt you mean says Johnny but they agreed to meet at the flats by the dam in two hours they're going to race it out in the true tradition of car movies.
And at this point we know that Laura knows who Johnny really is Johnny's not trying to deny it so Laura knows that she's been duped and I guess we'll find out if she cares or not well not necessarily because we go inside and Laura's telling her father.

(29:46):
That car wasn't stolen she's seen him in a twice then he stole it twice her father says any warns Laura that she better not go out with that Mexican again if she even tries to see him he's going to put her in a combat so he may be a car hop but she isn't necessarily believe the car stolen just yet because all car hops can afford classic Cadillac convertibles.
Meanwhile Johnny pulls that Cadillac into Raul's garage and he finds it empty except for Pearl and she asked what does he think he's doing.

(30:13):
You want to leave the car there but Pearl says that there is no more there they have to move on that car is so hot that no one will touch it not even the parts.
Pro says the best thing to do is just dump the car and take the loss but Johnny needs to race tonight he uses own car Anthony could fix the engine and make it work real good.
Pearl thinks that Johnny's being stupid especially dragging his innocent brother into his mess.

(30:35):
Tell me says that racing is a matter of honor but Pearl says it's a matter of life and death at this point he says he's going to go get Anthony and Pearl still tries to make the relationship work she says it's not too late for them this girl's pathetic back at Laura's house Mr. Bigford drunkenly threatens Laura who's just like Natalie Wood and rebel without a cause for some reason and she's headed out if you go out you're not coming back slurs her father she goes out and he says he's calling the cops are the flats Anthony is working on the motor to Johnny's car.

(31:04):
Get it running real good and Laura drives up and she asked Johnny why he lied to her and he explains it is because he was a car hop who lives in the slum and he's from the wrong side the tracks and if you pull her the truth well Megan wouldn't approve she says that she wouldn't mind.
Johnny says that Laura cares more what Megan thinks than she thinks she does and anyway he saw her and he went after her you sure did she giggles.

(31:28):
She's a silly silly girl Johnny introduces her to Anthony and there's a mutual liking between the two of them but now Alex is here and it's time to race Laura gives Johnny a good luck kiss and she goes over to stand with the other onlookers I think she's on team Johnny I think there are two camps here she's with Johnny's friends which include Anthony and some other people that we don't know there's another group watching and that's Alex's friends I thought it was going to be Laura taking off her scarf and using it to start the race.

(31:57):
They avoided that cliche they just have some dude with actual racing flags out between the two they have barrels in between the two of them they light them all on fire so on either side of these fiery barrels they're racing.
So one guy stands at the head of that and waves the flag and the race is on and they're racing and they're driving and for some reason Alex loses control of his car and spends about 12 seconds trying to regain it.

(32:20):
Was it that long maybe it's a slight exaggeration but it was longer than it should have considering the outcome.
It seemed to me that he turned his car directly into the audience and everyone who could run runs away leaving only Anthony stuck in his wheelchair to get hit by the car and I'm sorry but this was so funny I left so hard at this scene because we see it from Anthony's point of view where the car is coming up and then we see the car approaching him and it's

(32:49):
ridiculous the way this is done I'm sorry but it's unintentionally hilarious well dad insult to injury Alex slams in Anthony and sends him down the hill I kind of remembered mac in me the scene where the kid flies off the cliff in his wheelchair and it's not supposed to be funny but I couldn't stop laughing.

(33:10):
Alex daggers out of the car and Johnny runs down to check on his brother and Laura follows Johnny Alex feels like he's to blame here but Johnny feels like he's to blame here well for a second anyway is there anybody all right calls on Alex from the top of the hill.
No you kill them Johnny pulls on his gun and starts shooting aimlessly toward the top of the hill the crowd disperses and Laura pulls Johnny to her and hugs him and nobody got hit by the garage of bullets so the checkoffs gun theory that I had here didn't play out.

(33:39):
Nobody got killed with that gun.
Lord tells Johnny not to blame himself he tells her that he and Anthony were going to have their own mechanic shop he reaches down to picks up the diary that was laying beside Anthony's body.
I never read it says Johnny you should have says Laura he did says Johnny he was kind of in love with you.
I mean your sirens Lord tells Johnny that he better run no one's going to benefit if he's in jail and I don't know about that might society not benefit if this person is in jail.

(34:07):
Johnny tells Laura about the wall safe with the cash and tells her to tell Blanche to use it for the funeral she agrees to do this without never asking who blashes.
Then Johnny smiling widely tells Laura that he's going to get them that Kevin in the woods I guess he processes creep really quickly detective dry is over the top of that cliff and he walks up to Alex who confesses immediately to hitting that kid but that doesn't matter to dry and he's going to blame Johnny for this he stares down at Laura standing next to the body of Anthony and then shaking his head says.

(34:36):
The slaughter of innocence and that's the end.
We're listening to the American International podcast where we're discussing episode seven of Rebel Highway Dragstrip Girl.
I don't have any information on the making of this movie aside from it was filmed in Los Angeles most of these movies were filmed in Southern California.

(34:59):
Maybe somewhere in North South east of Los Angeles but in that general vicinity taglines used for the video release of this movie include fast cars faster women.
Dragstrip Girl revs up fast and furious fun Nathan Raven of the AV club broke that directed by Mary Lambert whose filmography proves that female directors can't be just as creepy as their male counterparts.
Dragstrip girl offers an odd ball be movie take on Rebel without a cause the ultimate exercise in mid 50s suburban teen romanticism.

(35:26):
Lambert creates movies that straddle the line between Todd re exploitation and David Lynch inspired experimentation drag strip girl exemplifies this strange split personality references and illusions to blue velvet and Rebel without a cause about.
But awful dialogue, a trotious performances and a pervasive air of all encompassing sleaziness keep drag strip girl rooted firmly in its B movie origins.

(35:47):
Lambert and screenwriter Jerome Gary failed to fill their evocative 50s dreamscape with sympathetic or interesting characters.
Lambert seems to specialize in films that are interesting and unexpected without being good description that squarely sums up drag strip girl.
Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago reader said of the Rebel highway series the illusion of being back in the 50s or in a 50s movie is never established to begin with in episodes like girls in prison,

(36:12):
Shake, Rattle and Rock and Dragstrip Girl what one gets instead or attitudes and ideas about the 50s passionately engaged in the first two conventional and rather dull in the third that being Dragstrip Girl.
Part of the problem is the tone struck in the scripts because the filmmakers feel compelled to make up for the fact that these people never swore or made racist remarks or took off their clothes in the originals.
They usually lay these things on with a trial here and the characters wind up coming across as 90s archetypes in 90s movies.

(36:38):
Steven H Scheur in his TV tonight column called Dragstrip Girl's plot by the numbers approach the production is filled with authentic period details including the cars and the music.
However the mechanical screenplay and shallow characterizations work against its efforts the performers give excruciating readings of their lines and Wagner sticks out like a sore thumb.
Wagner's mother, Natalie Wood, paired much better in a similar role in the 50s classic Rebel, but Donna cause.

(37:03):
John Berlin game wrote that drag strip girl quote puts a new spin on cross cultural romance set against the illegal drag racing milieu and that the movie begins as a Romeo and Juliet tale of a poor Latino car thief who who's a wealthy board Anglo girl.
And ends all to predictably in tragedy I wouldn't call that ending predictable in any way.
No, but we knew it was going to end tragedy. Yeah, I just wasn't expecting Anthony to get knocked off the cliff real chair and all.

(37:29):
And I don't know that these reviewers were hard enough on this movie honestly. I don't think they really established a 50s milieu.
I didn't really see a lot of authentic period details outside of the cars.
The music yes, I would give them credit for that.
Yeah, the music for sure and even Laura's house looks too big for the 50s.
It's a mansion. It's probably got about 18 rooms in there and even the outfits kind of had that cliche 50s aesthetic, but they didn't look real.

(37:56):
No, it looked like costumes.
It looked like somebody making 50s clothes for 90s girls or guys.
Which is what we're doing. We're doing a Gen X reinterpretation of the 50s.
And that was kind of big. I don't know if so much in the 90s as in the 70s.
70s was when happy days came out and there was a minor 50s revival.
Yeah, in the 90s was more of a 70s revival.

(38:17):
Yeah, we were on that 20 year track for a while. I guess now we should be re-living the 2000s.
I don't even remember the 2000s. They were so.
It was an innocent time.
Wasn't innocent. They were just nothing happened.
Well, 9/11 happened Jeff.
Well, yeah, I know. And that kind of just distracted from everything else.
That was what happened. That was basically it.
That was kind of like the end of the world of pop culture.

(38:38):
It did change a lot of things.
That's immaterial to our review of this movie.
But yes, you're correct. It reset all of pop culture and not in a good way.
I think at any rate, this movie, I'm not familiar with Mary Lambert's work.
I looked her up. She's done a lot of music videos.
She did pet cemetery and pet cemetery too, which I don't really remember.
I didn't actually didn't see the second one. I only saw the first one.

(39:00):
I saw them both. I don't remember the second one.
I remember the first because I thought it was hilarious.
And she was hilarious here. But was it intentionally?
Oh, definitely not intentional.
Actually, I only laughed at the end of this movie.
I was very bored up until then.
Yeah, we definitely didn't see any A.I.P. Easter eggs in this at all.
Unless you count the title using the poster font.
No, I wouldn't count that. It may have been intentional, but it just wasn't enough to really clue you in that this was an A.I.P. movie.

(39:27):
Yeah, there wasn't a lot here at all.
Even using the title drag strip girl is such a rip off.
She's not a drag strip girl.
I said this earlier, she comes out there for one short race.
She comes out again to pick up Johnny so they can go do something or talk anyway.
And then she comes out for the last race.
Her character is boring.
And that's really too bad because she should have been more rebellious.

(39:49):
She's rebellious and that she's dating Johnny.
And he's from the wrong side of tracks.
But there's not really anything that grows within that.
And it should be told more from her perspective.
This is Johnny's story.
And not that we're supposed to compare this to the original.
But in the original, the drag strip girl, she raced.
She was the lead character in the story.
It was all about her choosing between these two guys that really,

(40:11):
not their one of them deserved her, but it was her story.
Yeah, Louise was definitely a much more interesting character.
Laura is boring.
She talks like a little girl.
Her interests are shallow at best.
The ones that we know about anyways.
She's not developed as a character.
We don't know why Johnny's attracted her outside of her looks.
And literally he's a really good looking guy.

(40:32):
Well, he's older.
She does say he's a man and Alex is a boy.
Alex is a jerk.
And Johnny is nice to her.
But there's nothing more than that going on between them.
They don't even know each other.
They met.
They made out.
They met again.
They made out again.
They danced for like a minute.
And then they explored a school and then they had sex.
And then she goes to see her boyfriend kill his brother.
That's it.

(40:53):
This was the seventh of the rebel highways that we've done.
And I've loved every one of them so far.
And then I get to this one.
My expectations were a little lower.
And I don't think it met my expectations.
I thought this would be like a middleing movie.
Whereas the other ones knocked it out of the park.
In both of our opinions.
This one didn't even make it to bat.
Everything about this movie is wrong.
The script is terrible.

(41:15):
It's shallow.
It's cliched.
It's got no, like you said, no character development.
There's no reason to like anybody in this movie.
And then they get to this one.
And then they get to like anybody in this movie.
And it doesn't help that the cast isn't that likable either.
There's not really any names here.
Traci Lords, except for Traci Lords, who is good in her limited role
of being the hooker with the heart of gold.

(41:37):
The sexy aunt that you watch turn tricks.
Why are we here?
I don't know.
I thought that was a good idea.
And this is supposed to be the fifties.
And obviously men are men.
But this is just gross.
It's incestuous.
It's weird.
Watching it with your little brother watching a woman you consider an aunt.
I have sex with strangers.
And then talking about it, yuck.

(41:58):
And the whole idea where this, where a stolen car is basically stopping society
while they go to look for it.
It's the most important thing that's going on in this town is this one guy had his car stolen.
And when apparently just four weeks early, that's the four weeks.
It'd been what a day since they sold another car.
But then what he cares about that one.
Nope.
That one's done and gone.
And this one stolen car is enough to make this whole chop shop operation

(42:20):
after shut down and relocate in a new city.
It's so hot that no one can do anything anymore.
Johnny's untouchable.
Well, it was a Cadillac obviously owned by a very rich man.
So maybe that's what the difference is.
Because the other car they took, it was a nice car, but it wasn't as nice.
But all the cars are basically rich people cars.
Because they're at the supper club.
That's where the rich people go to eat.

(42:41):
It's not a diner.
It's not a greasy spoon.
It's not some dive.
It's a place where you get dressed up and drive your best car.
Give it to the valet.
I don't think we have enough time to say everything that's wrong with this movie.
It's just all wrong.
The tone is, it's not serious.
Well, I wrote down my notes here that this movie has not much drag,
meaning the actual racing.

(43:02):
The movie itself did drag.
Yes.
And even less dragstrip girl.
I stopped it when there's about 20 minutes to go, thinking that there may be five minutes to go.
And admittedly, the credits were like eight minutes long.
But still, oh my gosh, it took forever to get to the end.
It's only an hour and 15 minutes long.
And it felt like three hours.
There was some strip though in this movie.

(43:23):
Yeah.
Not that we saw any nudity, but Traci Lords did a little strip tease for her nephews.
Ugh.
When they're at that Mexican club and everybody turns on Johnny,
Doogie calls the cops on him,
And then this story is done.
We don't really see him.
I think he's at the race at the end, but he has nothing to do with the story from that point forward.
I didn't see him at the race at the end.
I used to assume he was there because there was a lot of people.

(43:44):
He was done with Johnny.
Speaking of Johnny, I was thinking of the line from the room.
"Everybody betray me."
That's what he wanted to Laura.
This movie makes me think of stupider movies, and that's not good.
Stupider movies that I liked more than this movie.
And the illusions they made to there being a prior relationship between Pearl and Johnny.

(44:05):
It probably seems so desperate to be with them.
They could have played that up, gave it some deeper meaning and actually had some character development in there.
They didn't.
They just made her throw herself at him over and over again in between berating him for being stupid about the cars.
She tries to put him in his place.
She reminds him you're poor.
You're Mexican.
You don't belong on that side of the city.

(44:27):
No, you belong with me.
I love you.
Be with me.
Yeah, hold on.
It's just so weird.
No characters come off looking good in this movie.
Maybe Anthony, even though he's a little peeping Tom in training, but even he is so shallowly characterized.
The crippled brother with a heart of gold who wants his brother to have a future with this girl he's stalking.
There's just nothing I like about this movie.

(44:48):
Not one thing.
Maybe the soundtrack.
Okay, the music's good.
There's a lot of fat stomino songs in here.
And lights out is played three times.
They played at the beginning of the end and in the middle.
We're almost getting into Bobbi Jo and the Outlaw of music repetition territory.
But this is a much better song.
So it's not as obnoxious as “Those City Lights."
So you don't seem too fond of this one.

(45:10):
But how are you going to rate that using our AIP scale for 'A' is awesome.
'I' is intermediate and 'P' is pathetic.
I've already used the word pathetic in our summation in my review.
I've used it at least twice or three times and I'm going to use it again.
This movie is pathetic.
It's such a disappointment.
This is the seventh movie.
We've enjoyed six straight movies and that almost never happens.

(45:33):
Six straight.
Both of us giving in an ‘A' for awesome.
And now this movie just drags down the average of all of these films.
It's so sad.
It could have been good.
They could have had a lot of fun with this.
But they don't do anything that makes you laugh for the right reasons.
They don't do anything that makes you say, oh no, I hope something bad doesn't happen to this character.

(45:54):
I knew something bad was going to happen to somebody and I frankly couldn't wait.
I was so excited to watch the ending.
I don't want Anthony to get knocked off the cliff.
I'm sorry.
That's so hard.
I don't laugh at comedies that much.
Yeah, so it's silly, shallow, stupid, unintentionally funny and a missed opportunity all around.

(46:21):
P for pathetic.
What do you think?
Well, that ending where Anthony gets run over by the car is not well edited.
No.
Part of why it's so funny because they have the zooming in close up of Anthony's face as the guards approaching.
Oh no, what about Mr. Bill?
I think that using the dragship girl is kind of a travesty using that title because when you look at all the girl movies, the AIP did with dragship girl, sorority girl, hot rod girl.

(46:47):
The girl is the main character in all those movies.
And she wasn't here.
She was just, I don't know what she was.
Maybe an object.
Object to be attained by the main character.
The McEuffin?
Maybe, I don't know, but this movie should not be called dragship girl.
I don't know what I would call it.
Dragstrip Guy?
I think the fact that they use the title was the only reason they had to have a drag strip in it.
I mean, that's why they went to the race.

(47:09):
They could have just fought.
It could have had the same outcome.
I mean, obviously fighting your neck and run over somebody with your car, but you could bring a weapon to a fight and have a go awry.
It could have had the same outcome.
And the fact that they had to have a dragship race meant that they went to the next plot device of them being car thieves, which was a pretty low stakes.
I would think occupation for the bad guys in this movie, the alleged bad guys.

(47:33):
There's just so much is the pointing in this movie.
I'm not going to give it a ‘P' though, because I am reserving from movies that just really make me ill or I can't stand.
And I didn't hate it.
I can't say that I loved it, but I'm going to give it an 'I'.
I'm going to be a little generous.
Well, I was almost to the point where I would have given it an I and not even the ending, not even the knocking Anthony off the cliff part, but the way that I couldn't wait for it to be over.

(47:59):
And I was starting to get angry that this movie was such a missed opportunity that it wasn't about anything acting is so bad.
The acting is not good in this movie at all.
I know Natasha Gregson Wagner grew up and became a better actress, but she's not good here.
She's just a simpering little girl, and I don't know why anybody is that invested in her, whether it be Alex or father Johnny, whoever.

(48:24):
I don't know why anybody cares about her.
She's a pretty face the end.
That's a real missopportunity.
Not only is it not about her, but she is the dullest character in this entire movie.
Yeah, I'd have to say she is.
I'd rather see a movie about her mom, the alcoholic than her.
And she only had one line.
You think he's Mexican.
So you gave us a pathetic sign. I'm guessing that you would not recommend that people track this one down.

(48:47):
I would say watch the ending.
You have to watch any of it.
And I would be happy to hear from other people if they think that we've that I've misjudged it.
And there's a good way to do that. It's on our website, aappod.com.
Not only can you contact us and get in touch with us.
Tell us your thoughts, but you can look at materials from the movies that we've covered.
Visual media, trailers, lobby cards, posters, etc.

(49:10):
A lot more information about the movies, where to watch them.
And like I said, a way to contact us. That's aappod.com.
Want you there? Check out our store.
If you buy something, it really helps out the podcast.
Well, let's say for dragship, girl, we're going to be pulling back on to the Rebel Highway with another episode next week.
Until then, I'm Jeff Markin.
I'm Cheryl Lightfoot.
And we'll meet you at the drive-in.
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(49:36):
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A man whose mind is distorted by hatred.
And Cheryl Lightfoot.
A girl hungry for too many things.

(50:03):
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