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Un vengativo sheriff sureño busca sangre después de que su mujer sea brutalmente asesinada por un par de vagabundos.Un vengativo sheriff sureño busca sangre después de que su mujer sea brutalmente asesinada por un par de vagabundos.Un vengativo sheriff sureño busca sangre después de que su mujer sea brutalmente asesinada por un par de vagabundos.
Max Baer Jr.
- Deputy Reed Morgan
- (as Max Baer)
Leif Garrett
- Luke Morgan
- (as Lief Garrett)
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- TriviaThis $225,000 film reportedly became the single most profitable film of 1974 (in cost-to-gross ratio), earning $18.8 million in North America and over $30 million worldwide.
- ErroresHamp tells Reed that the car needs a new water pump. It actually needs a new fuel pump.
- Citas
Deputy Reed Morgan: Hurry up on the car there. Don't want to keep these nice folk here any longer than we have to. I'm not going to like it. I wouldn't like that at all.
- ConexionesFeatured in Macon County Line: 25 Years Down the Road (2000)
- Bandas sonorasKeep On Keepin' On
Vocal by Vermettya
Opinión destacada
Chris and Wayne Dixon, played by real-life acting brothers Alan and Jesse Vint, are two fun loving siblings from Chicago. They get into some trouble, but do no harm, in the days before they will enter into military service. (The story takes place in Georgia in 1954.) However, they end up targets for the wrath of a Southern lawman (Max "Jethro Bodine" Baer), who mistakenly believes that they have butchered his wife.
"Macon County Line" is a superior example of this kind of exploitation filmmaking, fulfilling some of the requirements of the genre (like nudity, sex, and violence), but also taking the time to tell an entertaining and compelling story. Baer concocted the story himself, and co-wrote the screenplay with director Richard Compton, doing a fine job of leaving his cheerfully dumb hayseed character Jethro far behind for the first time in his career. Incidentally, the filmmakers knew that their plot hinged on coincidences a little too much, so they invented the introductory claim that their film was based on a true story, which it is not. (They figured audiences would have an easier time swallowing the chain of events this way.)
The main hook of this sordid, and ultimately tragic, tale is an assortment of wholly engaging characterizations by the main cast: the Vint brothers, Cheryl Waters as the hitchhiker whom they pick up, Geoffrey Lewis as a local yokel garage owner, Joan Blackman as Baers' victimized wife, a very young Leif Garrett as Baers' son, James Gammon and Timothy Scott as a pair of despicable lowlifes, Sam Gilman as a deputy, Doodles Weaver as area resident Augie, Emile Meyer as store owner Gurney, et al.
The cinematography by Daniel Lacambre is first-rate, the songs are wonderful, there is an appreciable sense of humor, and the finale is some genuinely atmospheric, suspenseful, and spooky stuff. It all adds up to make a fine film that any fan of this era of filmmaking ought to check out.
Impressively filmed on a low, low budget of approximately $225,000, it went on to gross over $18 million in the US.
Followed a year later by "Return to Macon County".
Eight out of 10.
"Macon County Line" is a superior example of this kind of exploitation filmmaking, fulfilling some of the requirements of the genre (like nudity, sex, and violence), but also taking the time to tell an entertaining and compelling story. Baer concocted the story himself, and co-wrote the screenplay with director Richard Compton, doing a fine job of leaving his cheerfully dumb hayseed character Jethro far behind for the first time in his career. Incidentally, the filmmakers knew that their plot hinged on coincidences a little too much, so they invented the introductory claim that their film was based on a true story, which it is not. (They figured audiences would have an easier time swallowing the chain of events this way.)
The main hook of this sordid, and ultimately tragic, tale is an assortment of wholly engaging characterizations by the main cast: the Vint brothers, Cheryl Waters as the hitchhiker whom they pick up, Geoffrey Lewis as a local yokel garage owner, Joan Blackman as Baers' victimized wife, a very young Leif Garrett as Baers' son, James Gammon and Timothy Scott as a pair of despicable lowlifes, Sam Gilman as a deputy, Doodles Weaver as area resident Augie, Emile Meyer as store owner Gurney, et al.
The cinematography by Daniel Lacambre is first-rate, the songs are wonderful, there is an appreciable sense of humor, and the finale is some genuinely atmospheric, suspenseful, and spooky stuff. It all adds up to make a fine film that any fan of this era of filmmaking ought to check out.
Impressively filmed on a low, low budget of approximately $225,000, it went on to gross over $18 million in the US.
Followed a year later by "Return to Macon County".
Eight out of 10.
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- Presupuesto
- USD 225,000 (estimado)
- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 29 minutos
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- Relación de aspecto
- 1.85 : 1
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