Drive-In | |
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Directed by | Rod Amateau |
Written by | Bob Peete |
Produced by | Tamara Asseyev Alexandra Rose |
Starring | Lisa Lemole Gary Lee Cavagnaro Glenn Morshower Billy Milliken Lee Newsom Regan Kee |
Cinematography | Robert C. Jessup |
Edited by | Bernard Caputo Guy Scarpitta |
Production company | George Litto Productions |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Drive-In is a 1976 American comedy film directed by Rod Amateau and written by Bob Peete. The film stars Lisa Lemole, Gary Lee Cavagnaro, Glenn Morshower, Billy Milliken, Lee Newsom and Regan Kee. [1] [2] The film was released on May 26, 1976, by Columbia Pictures.
"Disaster '76", the latest disaster film, is playing at The Alamo, a drive-in theater in a small Texas town. The night brings together a young couple, two rival youth gangs, a pair of thieves planning to rob the drive-in, a nervous doctor and a host of other characters.
Lawrence Van Gelder of The New York Times wrote, "'Drive-In' possesses the virtue of fresh faces, the drawback of uneven acting, the irritation of occasional overwriting and the limited appeal of what is basically a juvenile story." [3] Arthur D. Murphy of Variety called the film an "easy-going and likeable George Litto production. Rod Amateau's direction of Bob Peete's script turns the liabilities of low-budget production and largely unknown performers into creative assets by virtue of the simplicity and sincerity of the results." [4] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two stars out of four, describing the humor as insult comedy typical of TV shows like Hee Haw and expressing his wish that "the script of 'Drive-In' had been trashed and 'Disaster '76' had been fully made instead." [5] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called it "a shrewdly made exploitation picture, undoubtedly indebted to 'American Graffiti' but played very, very broadly to reach the most unsophisticated of audiences. Yet as corny as it so often gets, it's consistently funny." [6]
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