The California Kid

1974

Action / Horror / Thriller

9
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 75% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 1411 1.4K

small town sheriff hot rod car crash murder small town sheriff

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Plot summary

A sadistic small-town sheriff has a habit of deliberately forcing speeders to their deaths on the mountain roads leading into town. The brother of one of the victims rolls into town in his hot rod to investigate his brother's death.

Director

Richard T. Heffron Photo
Richard T. Heffron

Top cast

Nick Nolte Photo
Nick Nolte as Buzz Stafford
Martin Sheen Photo
Martin Sheen as Michael McCord
Norman Bartold Photo
Norman Bartold as Howard
Michelle Phillips Photo
Michelle Phillips as Maggie
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
529.75 MB
956*720
English 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 14 min
Seeds 1
1.11 GB
1424*1072
English 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 14 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Crom W 6 / 10

Fin Small tv-movie, good guy - evil sheriff

Fin Small tv-movie, good guy - evil sheriff, plot like the western from the '40
Reviewed by R T 6 / 10

Wow, I had this pegged as a much

Wow, I had this pegged as a much older picture. It was filmed in 1974 (for TV no less!) but it feels exactly like a '50s hot rod drama. Martin Sheen is basically channeling James Dean as a hot rodder seeking justice for his brother, driven off the road by a homicidal policeman as part of a speed trap. Captured here is a lost piece of Americana: the small towns kept alive by the traffic directed along their mountain roads. We get to spend some time here and see the ins and outs of small town life: the way everyone knows each other, the centralness of country diners, the clannishness and nepotism. There's not really much plot here to go around. The brother dies within five minutes. Sheen shows up just after that and immediately has a run-in with that cop. He then chooses to hang around, working on his car and making friends with the locals until the inevitable chase at the very end. Even at only an hour and ten minutes it felt long. Yet somehow it does keep occupied. It's that glacial pacing that left me so sure this was a true '50s film; that and the whole hot rod culture and the vehicles. This feels like the sort of film James Dean would appear in. Aside from such '50s films, what this film reminded me of the most was Duel, which must have come out at around the same time. Also a TV movie, also set on the roads of northern California, also built around a chase... Only that film feels very '70s and more grandiose than its scale should allow. That's largely because it was directed by Stephen Spielberg, whose tight editing and action scenes put the chases here to shame. Still, they're both good films, and if this one's not super ambitious it's still more than capable and captures a lost time in American history very well.
Reviewed by R T 9 / 10

Excellent movie. It has full character development in

Excellent movie. It has full character development in a very short time and you feel like you are there with them. Excellent and pure acting! Top names before they were top! And, you are left hanging. Like in the end, I was very surprised.
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