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10 September 1971 (USA)
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For Fame, Fortune and Broken Bones!
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Biography of the famed motorcycle daredevil, much of which was filmed in his home town of Butte, Montana...
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This is a wonderful irresponsible bombastic backwards movie.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | George Hamilton | ... | Evel Knievel |
 | Sue Lyon | ... | Linda |
| Bert Freed | ... | Doc Kincaid |
| Rod Cameron | ... | Charlie Knesson |
| Dub Taylor | ... | Turquoise Smith |
 | Ron Masak | ... | Pete |
| Hal Baylor | ... | The Sheriff |
 | Judith Baldwin | ... | Sorority Girl |
 | Kathrine Baumann | ... | Sorority Girl |
| Ben Bentley | ... | Man in Bar |
 | Alana Stewart | ... | Nurse #1 (as Alana Collins-Hamilton) |
| Joe Davis | ... | Showgirl #2 |
 | Lee de Broux | ... | Wrangler #1 (as Lee De Broux) |
| Roger Edington | ... | Bartender |
| Frank Ellis | ... | Rodeo Clown |
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Evel Knievel: [speaking to the camera] Ladies and gentlemen, you have no idea how good it makes me feel to be here today. It is truly an honor to risk my life for you. An honor. Before I jump this motorcycle over these 19 cars - and I want you to know there's not a Volkswagen or a Datsun in the row - before I sail cleanly over that last truck...
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Evel Knievel: [speaking to the camera] Ladies and gentlemen, you have no idea how good it makes me feel to be here today. It is truly an honor to risk my life for you. An honor. Before I jump this motorcycle over these 19 cars - and I want you to know there's not a Volkswagen or a Datsun in the row - before I sail cleanly over that last truck...
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Referenced in Evel Knievel (2004) (TV)
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I saw this movie in the dollar bin of the grocery store and I couldn't help smiling. I had no idea if it would be worth a sitting, but I discovered to my joy that this film captures the energy and twisted, booze-fueled optimism of 1971 only too well. There is a senior thesis and a kitsch musical trapped in this time capsule. It is both a on-the-spot knowing parody of 70's machismo and a hapless apology for it, a living testimony to a living person.
George Hamilton in 1971 didn't seem to know how to act, he swaggered humorlessly and proclaimed, and chewed gum like Burt Reynolds. John Milius and a 90 year old Englishman scripted this, so Evel's lines are filled with references and heightened language that are quite outside the range of a dropout sociopath. And yet this movie isn't dead. It has an intentness, a brio, a sort of-- pertness. It deserves to have eyeballs given to it, over a few sittings, over a few lunch hours, using the DVD feature of your workstation in your cubicle. Go to your supermarket today!