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We pan over the sea while a narrator reads: 'The Grand Line. This fictionalized, frequently stomach-churning biography of Australian criminal Mark Chopper Read features the most bloody ear-severing scene since 'Reservoir Dogs. Featuring the pitched-up voice of some teen star on the Disney Channel. It's galling to see such a low-life canonized in a film, but it's also riveting drama.
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A few neat old cars-especially an absolutely gorgeous '59 Cadillac convertible that is seen in the very beginning of the film and never shown again and a very nice early '50s Kaiser that is, unfortunately, stripped to the bones and trashed-and the beautiful Gaba make this a film that you might want to see once, but that's about it. Starring Chris Pratt, Kaley Cuoco, and other people. The "rock n' roll" score is, as has been previously mentioned, perversely enjoyable in its awfulness. Most of the film is shot outdoors and the few interior sets are threadbare in the extreme. Whatever pluses the film has, however, are more than outweighed by the laughable, self-consciously "hip" dialog by writer/producer Arch Hall Sr.-some of the "slang" he writes for the teenagers is out of the 1940s, not the 1960s-and the almost non-existent production values. Veteran heavy Bruno VeSota is his usual enjoyable if somewhat hammy self as the crooked owner of a junkyard. Brown, who had been an actor since the 1920s, has to be at least 25 years older than Gaba, and that kind of age difference was seldom, if ever, seen in Hollywood films until relatively recently). While she's no great shakes as an actress, she is nonetheless competent, and also drop-dead gorgeous (as one would expect a former Playboy Playmate to be) and a welcome relief from the embarrassing attempts at acting from most of the rest of the cast (one odd thing, though, is her "romance" with Tom Brown, who plays her boss. Another factor in the film's favor is leading lady Marianne Gaba. His book, 'From the Inside', upon which the film is based, was a best-seller.
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#CHOPPER MOVIE HOW TO#
Jason, a Hollywood veteran who had been directing since the 1930s, had obviously fallen on hard times if he was reduced to working for Fairway, but he still knew how to put a film together, something that Fairway never seemed to quite get the hang of. Chopper tells the intense story of Mark 'Chopper' Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison.
#CHOPPER MOVIE PROFESSIONAL#
One is that director Leigh Jason makes this film look better and more professional than it deserves. There are several factors, however, that raise this a notch or two above the usual Fairway garbage. which isn't saying much, as besides this and the excellent "The Sadist," Fairway's output was nothing but Grade-Z trash.