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JDaniel
12-03-2005, 01:52 PM
With all the Johnny Cash talk lately, I ran across a biker movie I haven't seen before - Little Fauss and Big Halsey (1970). Johnny Cash does the music for the movie. Robert Redford (Halsey Knox), Michael Pollard (Little Fauss), and Rita (Lauren Hutton).

I just got my hands on a copy, and hope to watch it this weekend. Anyone else remember this movie?

JD
tentoze
12-03-2005, 01:57 PM
With all the Johnny Cash talk lately, I ran across a biker movie I haven't seen before - Little Fauss and Big Halsey (1970). Johnny Cash does the music for the movie. Robert Redford (Halsey Knox), Michael Pollard (Little Fauss), and Rita (Lauren Hutton).

I just got my hands on a copy, and hope to watch it this weekend. Anyone else remember this movie?

JD

As is the case with most things from that era, I vaguely remember it...Michael Pollard was always a favorite of mine- quirky, weird, and seemed to be stoned out of his mind in every movie I ever saw him in.

"Dirt in the fuel line- just blowed it away." - C. W. Moss (Pollard) to Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) in Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
Fast_Eddie
12-04-2005, 05:15 AM
They used to play it on one of the UHF stations when I was a kid in Cincinnati. I watched it a few times. Pretty neat flick as I recall. I can even kind of remember the Johnny Cash title song.

Take care,

Ed
drspiff
12-04-2005, 06:34 AM
One of the great sleeper movies! I think one of the reasons it didn't get bigger play is that the story line is way too close to "real life".
Wornears
12-04-2005, 12:50 PM
My best friend in high school and I were total motorcycle heads in 1970, so this movie was not to be missed! He went on to try to make a career as a motorcross racer, and after a couple of years living out of his van, and duplicating this movie more than he wanted to, he got a "real" job at a BMW motorcyle dealership.

Haven't seen it in a long time, but back when it came out could quote lines and lines of dialogue with my buddy. We worshiped this flick. Never got the play it should have, even with Redford in it (sort of like his "Downhill Racer" that way), but worth renting. The motorcycle action photography was better than anything at the time.