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Ramblin Man [VHS]

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3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

CONCRETE COWBOYS is a very funny movie set in 1970's Nashville starring Tom Selleck and Jerry Reed(Country Music Artist and Co-star of Smokey and the Bandit Movies). Selleck and Reed are a couple of con-artist cowboys from Montana who end up in Nashville in the adventure of their lives.

The movie starts with Selleck and Reed playing a game of poker at a truck stop, where Reed gets them beat up and chased out of town. They hop a freight-train where they wind up in Nashville, Tennessee. Coincidentally, Reed has a friend that lives in Nashville that he calls to find a place to stay. The guy that Reed calls happens to be going out of town and lets them stay at his apartment and drive his corvette, which is very convenient for these two traveling hobos. Selleck and Reed come to find out that this guy is a private detective and they take a case to find a missing girl. Along the way they meet several country music stars such as Roy Acuff and Ray Stevens. I won't give away the suprise ending or any of the twists that befall these two lovable losers, but you won't be dissapointed.

Tom Selleck and Jerry Reed are great as cowboy buddies taking a murder case while posing as private detectives. Jerry Reed is the conniving slick one of the pair while Tom Selleck is the somewhat dumb one, but he does carry a set of encyclopedias with him throughout the entire movie so he can "get himself some learnin".

This is a great movie for anyone that likes country music, since it is full of songs by Jerry Reed, live performances by Ray Stevens, and other country songs of the late 70's. Also, this movie is a great look at all the Nashville landmarks like the Opryland Hotel, Parthenon, and Country Music Hall of Fame. I first saw this movie at about 1:00 in the morning on TBS a few years ago, and having lived in the Nashville area all my life it was funny to see the city 25 years ago. Plus it is only $5.00 so what's really stopping you from buying it...trust me you'll like it even if its just for the cheesiness.

made for tv movie 1979 is a classic.
Jerry Reed and Tom Selleck play two
cowboys hitch a train into Nashville
and find themselves playing detectives
when a woman offers them money to find
her sister only to discover they've been
used by a friend. This movie moves right
along with drama and comedy. Reed n Selleck
made a great duo and this should've been a
hit tv series. much bettr than his other show.

This was a pretty good comedy/action movie. Tom Selleck is a great actor overall. Its a "older movie", but was still entertaning. Well worth the money.

I bought this movie for a dollar at walmart and I just simply loved it. I can't believe all the bad reviews it's getting. I totally disagree. I love Tom Sellek in this film. To me this film was total gem all the way to the end.

Bad Acting, Bad movie, Cool Car and some scenes, too bad, I should have known!!!!!!

Made in 1979, this lively TV-movie spun off a brief (seven-episode) TV series that was probably instrumental in getting Tom Selleck his defining role as Thomas Magnum. It also has a definite Simon & Simon - Season One-esque feel to it, being as it is the story of two unlikely and completely opposite partners and the more-than-it-seems adventure they find themselves falling into. J. D. Reed (played by country singer Jerry Reed, who does unexpectedly well in the role simply by being himself) and Will Eubanks (Selleck) are out of a ranch in Montana and on their way to Hollywood when J. D. loses their stake in a crooked poker game and forces them to hop the first freight they find--which turns out to be bound for "the place [J. D. wants] his ashes scattered," Music City, USA--Nashville, TN. Contacting local PI Lonnie Grimes (Randolph Powell), whom they met some time earlier while he was on vacation, they are offered his apartment and car while he's out of town, on condition that they pick up "a package" for him and keep it safe till he can claim it. Then a client (Morgan Fairchild) mistakes them for him and asks them to help her find her missing sister, a wannabe country star who's been reported dead but whose grave seems to be nonexistent. Operating on instinct and guessery, the pair soon realize there's more going on than meets the eye, as they deal with a hostile plainclothesman (veteran Gene Evans), a floating crap game run by a very nasty fellow named Hatcheck (Joseph Burke), a hired killer, and a Rashomon - Criterion Collection-like confusion of different versions of who Carla was and what she did.

Selleck's performance (he's the A. J. Simon of this team, cautious and unwilling to pretend he and his partner are something they're not, and intriguingly resolved to "read all the books in the 'Cyclopedia"--when J. D. laments that he'll "be eighty, bald and toothless time you get done," he replies that "there won't be a smarter eighty-bald-and-toothless old goat in America!") is the high point of the movie; you can see how some of Will's character found its way into Thomas Magnum. (And his reading at least once saves them from a term in jail--"It's all there in the C's, civil, common, and criminal law," he says smugly.) Daring, down-home J. D. balances him with impulse and a combination of enthusiasm, castles-in-the-air plans for the future, and laid-back relaxation. Several country stars--Roy Acuff, Ray Stevens, and Barbara Mandrell--appear as themselves to add versimilitude to the story. With plenty of wild action and a sympathetic hero-duo (viewers who enjoyed The Cowboy Way are likely to find it particularly to their taste), it's a little-known but very enjoyable action-comedy.

This movie has lots of big stars, but I barely managed to stay awake to finish it. Tom Selleck makes a great cowboy, and Morgan Fairchild was good. But the movie was boring - I had the plot figured out halfway through and I'm normally not good at guessing - it was that obvious. Sure glad I purchased a used copy so I got it for cheap. I'll give it to Goodwill ... you couldn't make me watch this movie twice.

Very campy but a treat seeing Jerry Reed and Tom Selleck together. Crazy stuff. Not worth paying full price though.

Kinda of cheesey 70's style movie. But I wanted to complete the cowboy part of a Tom Selleck collection. Funny but cheesey!

This is a really stupid movie--acting is fair at best and the plot is very routine. I love Tom Selleck but it is better not to waste your time on this one.