SYNOPSIS:  A redneck lunatic from Memphis named Memphis (Telly Savalas) and his mindless partner Mosquito (Franco Nero), along with their female escape driver/boy toy, are on the run in Italy after knocking off a jewelry store and shooting the owner dead. In their botched escape attempts the three galoots steal a car, inadvertently kidnapping a young boy (Mark Lester) hidden in the backseat.  When they discover that the loot turned out to be a bag full of bogus jewelry, the goons decide to use the boy as a hostage and take off on a blood soaked journey full of vile and sadistic acts that culminates in a bloody showdown with the authorities.

EDITORIAL REVIEW:  If this film were made in the 1920’s, I suppose it could have been a Keystone production, as in the producers of the slapstick comedy stylings of the Keystone Kops.  From what we gather, Redneck isn’t supposed to be a comedy but you can’t help but laugh at the Benny Hill-like scenes with running circles around a field while bumbling bad guys chase a helpless boy, who in-turn stops every once and a while to kick said bad guys in the nuts before running circles around the same filed again.  To give the producers a little credit there are some pretty good car chases (on strangely quiet Italian highways) and gun fights that you know will only end in death!  Telly Savalas plays Memphis, an absolute lunatic (from Memphis, TN) and does his best Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest impersonation…but fails miserably.  The nuttier Memphis gets, the more Mosquito (Memphis’ bum buddy) seems to avoid him, including running away with Lennox (Mark Lester).  Lennox then sees a friend in his former kidnapper, and finds that they have a lot more in common other than trying to avoid getting killed by Memphis. 

For Mark Lester fans the only bright star in this film is Mark Lester.  Although his acting only went down hill after Oliver, there is some enjoyment out of seeing Mark (who was 13 at the time of filming) in his element; acting in odd, Italian produced films (see Eye Witness and What the Peeper Saw).  Mark does do his own stunts, that were even quite intense at times (like literally being smacked around, kicked and punched), and for the first time in his short career he bares it all for the sake of…well nothing really, other than to provide gratuitous nudity where the plot didn’t really need it.

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STARRING: Mark Lester, Franco Nero, Telly Savalas, Ely Galleani.
AVAILABILITY: In stock! Ships within one business day.
LENGTH: 85 minutes.
LANGUAGE: English.
SPECIAL FEATURES: 1.33:1 (4:3 Letterboxed); 2.0 Stereo; 1 disc; Chapter selection; Uncut.
VIEWER DISCRETION: Brief to moderate nudity; coarse language, violence.
PICTURE QUALITY: Good to very good picture quality.  (what's this mean?)
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Italy (1973).
ALSO KNOWN AS: Senza ragione (Italy).
DATE ADDED TO OUR LIBRARY:  August 3,  2007.
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