Robert Zemeckis turns out wall-to-wall emetic drear these days, but this little diamond from the days when the phrase ‘black comedy’ still had some sort of meaning is like the work of someone else entirely. Jack Warden plays two rival used car dealers, with a hapless Kurt Russell working for the one who gets knocked off in spectacular brick-on-pedal fashion. Then it’s all fast talking, exploding Mercs, TV hijacking and loud sports jackets, Al ‘Munsters’ Lewis as a demented, death-penalty-happy judge, a climactic ‘mile of cars’, President Carter and a dead dog. The best thing to come out of John Milius’ coincidentally-named A-Team Productions.
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Trad Jazz Britannia
Friday, 21.00, BBC4It always amuses us when we see clips of Double Your Money and notice the category board includes both “jazz (traditional)” and “jazz (modern)”, though it is true that at that point trad really was big news, the nascent Pick of the Pops spinning off from Trad Tavern being just one example of its hold on the nation’s teens in the early sixties, despite it being influenced by music some forty years old at the time.
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