The beauty of what actor Bo Hopkins is doing here is he’s playing the role as a guy who‘a just emulating Brando’s ‘The Wild One’ attitude, his cool mainlined and manufactured from other movies, magazines, and of cours, Rock’n’Roll. Right down to the lip dangling cigarette. That’s the giveaway. It’s just this side of cartoonish posturing. Hopkins uses it as a wink to the audience, to show Pharaoh Joe isn’t really the rebel-without-cause hoodlum he’s making out to be. A brilliant, overlooked performance from Bo Hopkins.
by MRtakedownartist
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totally agree, bo hopkins nails that perfect balance of cool and over-the-top. it’s wild how he captures that era while giving a nod to the classics like brando. underrated for sure.
Great flick. Harrison Ford as Bob Falfa. Charles Martin Smith was great. Lots of Americana themes for the times.
Whatever happened to the director?
Lightning in a bottle, I guess… shame
The actor in front of Dreyfuss is Manuel Padilla, Jr. He played Jai (the kid) opposite Ron Ely on the Tarzan tv series.
To add… thats the Platters “The Great Pretender” that is playing in the background. 😎
Supports this idea of imitation…