Dixie Dynamite

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Dixie Dynamite

Another typical southern-fried revenge film starring a tired-looking, overacting Warren Oates, who helps two sisters get revenge on the people responsible for their father's murder. The local police are of little to no help, since they are on the payroll roster for a local crime boss. There is a decent opening car chase (with some footage lifted from Policewomen, an earlier Frost-Bishop collaboration) and plenty of explosions (including a memorable toilet scene). In fact, an uncredited Steve McQueen did some stunt motorcycle riding in the movie for a meager paycheck.

You'd have to be a real Warren Oates fetishist to actually seek DIXIE DYNAMITE out. It's bad...very bad...and not because of the obviously low budget or stilted acting or dismal script. It's strangely boring! There's very little dynamite and frankly very little of Dixie. Jane Anne Johnston and Kathy McHaley (who together possess about as much charisma as a flat tire) play two moonshiner's daughters seeking revenge on the roly-poly land baron who stole their house (and whose goons killed their father). There's NO ACTION to speak of except for the occasional car exploding (in the same exact spot each time!). The presence of Warren Oates does nothing. Nor does the fact that the crooked sheriff is played by the great Christopher George. For some reason, the movie features some really stupid musical montages and a fairly unexciting motorbike race thrown in for good measure.