Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry


Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry is a 1974 car chase film based on the 1963 Richard Unekis novel titled The Chase later renamed Pursuit. Directed by John Hough, the film stars Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke, and Vic Morrow. Although Jimmie Haskell is credited with writing the music score, the soundtrack contains no incidental music apart from the theme song Time Is Such A Funny Thing, sung by Marjorie McCoy, over the opening and closing titles, and a small amount of music heard over the radio.

Two NASCAR hopefuls, driver Larry Rayder Peter Fonda and his mechanic Deke Sommers Adam Roarke, successfully execute a supermarket heist to finance their jump into bigtime auto racing. They extort 150,000 in cash from a supermarket manager Roddy McDowall in an uncredited role by holding his wife and daughter hostage.In making their escape, they are confronted by Larrys onenight stand, Mary Coombs Susan George. She coerces them to take her along for the ride in their soupedup 1966 Chevrolet Impala. The unorthodox sheriff, Captain Franklin Vic Morrow, obsessively pursues the trio in a dragnet, only to find his outmoded patrol cars unable to catch Larry, Mary, and Deke after they ditch the Impala for a 1969 Dodge Charger RT 440 at a flea market. ........

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