Noir
elements in writer-producer-director Mark Lester's Bobbie Joe
and the Outlaw are non-existent. His previous effort was
Truckstop Women, a 1974 American International release
featuring Claudia Jennings, the 1969 Playboy Playmate of the Year. Truckstop wasn't quite the contemporary gem it was cracked
up to be, with an energetic wimlib-inspired storyline fizzling out
in a weakly staged ending, but it did show considerable promise if
Lester continued to inject novel ideas into the old, honorable
formulas. Bobbie Joe had a bigger budget and, with Lynda
Carter and Marjoe Gortner, marginally bigger name actors.
Expectations for a standout movie, however, went unfulfilled. |