Van Nuys Blvd.

Overview:

A small-town kid hears about the wild nights of cruising the boulevard in Van Nuys, California. He drives out there to check it out, and gets involved with drag racers, topless dancers and bikers.

Released: 1979-03-16

Duration: 01:33:00

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director: William Sachs

Writer: William Sachs

Cast: Bill Adler, Jim Kester, Tara Strohmeier, ...

Director: William Sachs

Writer: William Sachs

Cast: Bill Adler Jim Kester Tara Strohmeier David Hayward Susanne Severeid Renee Harmon Mary Ellen O'Neill Dennis Bowen Cynthia Wood Melissa Prophet Dana Gladstone Bella Bruck Di Ann Monaco Don Sawyer Minnie Summers Lindsey Doug Bailey Aesop Aquarian

Genre: Comedy Drama

Description

William ("The Incredible Melting Man") Sachs' airy, aimless, virtually plot-less episodic script follows the sextet's silly misadventures as they ride roller coasters at the amusement park, cruise the strip, disco dance to flickering strobe lights at the local clubs, play pinball at the arcade, race their mean machines, and fall in love under the twinkling California stars. Sach's throwaway direction lets the rickety narrative ramble in enjoyably ramshackle fashion, neatly capturing a righteously funky lowdown cool tone, offering up a highly satisfying plenitude of bare female flesh and simulated soft-core sex, and punctuating the sub-"American Graffiti" antics with frequent dashes of sophomoric humor. Uptight killjoy cop Al Zass (balding dork Dana Gladstone) winds up handcuffed to his police car on a sweltering hot beach.

A busty babe flashes her breasts at the fuzz. A mysterious leather-clad motorcycle mama (statuesque eyeful Di Ann Monaco) picks up Greg so she can have sex with him. A grunting pig runs amok on Malibu beach. Ken Mansfield and Ron Wright's catchy humming score pulsates to a throbbing disco beat. Joseph Mangine's bright, shiny, neon-reflecting cinematography gives the groovy after hours action a glittering nighttime glow. Sure, this likeably brainless Crown International Pictures drive-in piffle never really goes anywhere, but it provides a good deal of oddly pleasing dumb fun just the same.

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