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trackdown (1976)

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Movie Review | Trackdown (Heffron, 1976)

Nobody will accuse James Mitchum of being the same calibre of actor as his father, but I think he fares a lot better here than he did almost twenty years earlier going head to head against his old man in Thunder Road. If you look in his eyes he’s definitely missing the same spark, but otherwise he nails his old man’s weary, sarcastic delivery, which works for his fish out of water character. And that old bit of wisdom that good actors lift up their scene partners holds true here, as Cathy Lee Crosby and Erik Estrada bring a little something extra out in Mitchum in their scenes together. Estrada also teaches him some Spanish, like “Stupido mentirosa.”

So you get a nice amount of texture with these characters, and some with Anne Archer, who is arguably one of the villains in how the characters are aligned but is not entirely unsympathetic. Also, I’ve never really thought of Archer this way, but she’s straight up stunning in this. Before you yell at me for being thirsty, I’ll have you know it’s relevant to the plot. Anyway, the texture does not extend to the actual villains, who are varying degrees of loathsome, nor to the Missing Persons cop, who seems offended by the very idea that he should look into missing persons cases.

This is mostly paced like a trip to the DMV, with Mitchum’s character getting the runaround and hitting various dead ends in his search for his sister, but goes from zero to hundred after some unpleasantness with a sadist wearing plaid pants and gloves and Mitchum using his pickup truck to knock on the bad guys’ door, and offers for your trouble two top notch climaxes for the price of one: elevator action more than a decade before Die Hard, and a western style shootout on a desert highway. So you get plenty of bang for your buck, although I should warn you that while it’s expected with the territory, there’s some pretty upsetting violence against women.

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