American Graffiti (8/10) Movie CLIP - Pharaohs and the Cop Car (1973) HD
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Faced with being dragged behind a car by the
Pharaohs, Curt (
Richard Dreyfuss) hooks a chain to the axle of a police car leading to dramatic results.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
It's the last night of summer 1962, and the teenagers of
Modesto, California, want to have some fun before adult responsibilities close in. Among them are
Steve (
Ron Howard) and Curt (Richard Dreyfuss), college-bound with mixed feelings about leaving home; nerdy
Terry "The
Toad" (
Charles Martin Smith), who scores a dream date with blonde
Debbie (
Candy Clark); and
John (Paul Le Mat ), a 22-year-old drag racer who wonders how much longer he can stay champion and how he got stuck with 13-year-old
Carol (
Mackenzie Phillips) in his deuce coupe. As
D. J. Wolfman Jack spins 41 vintage tunes on the radio throughout the night, Steve ponders a future with girlfriend
Laurie (
Cindy Williams), Curt chases a mystery blonde, Terry tries to act cool, and
Paul prepares for a race against Bob Falfa (
Harrison Ford), but nothing can stop the next day from coming, and with it the vastly different future ushered in by the
1960s.
Fresh off
The Godfather (
1972), producer
Francis Ford Coppola had the clout to get his friend
George Lucas's project made, but only for $750,
000 on a 28-day shooting schedule.
Despite technical obstacles, and having to shoot at night, cinematographer
Haskell Wexler gave the film the neon-lit aura that
Lucas wanted, evoking the authentic look of a suburban strip to go with the authentic sound of rock-n-roll.
Universal, which wanted to call the film
Another Slow Night in Modesto, thought it was unreleasable. But Lucas' period detail, co-writers
Willard Huyck's and
Gloria Katz's realistic dialogue, and the film's nostalgia for the pre-Vietnam years apparently appealed to a
1973 audience embroiled in cultural chaos: American Graffiti became the third most popular movie of 1973 (after
The Exorcist and
The Sting), establishing the reputations of Lucas (whose next film would be
Star Wars) and his young cast, and furthering the onset of soundtrack-driven, youth-oriented movies. Although the film helped spark
1970s nostalgia for the
1950s, nothing else would capture the flavor of the era with the same humorous candor and latent sense of foreboding.
CREDITS:
TM & © Universal (1973)
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Charles Martin Smith,
Jim Bohan, Candy Clark,
Bo Hopkins
Director:
George Lucas
Producers: Francis Ford Coppola,
Gary Kurtz
Screenwriters: George Lucas, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck
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