“Dirty Marry Crazy Larry” film locations

[Wyatt Burp]

This 1974 Peter Fonda film was a great drive in movie in high school days, especially when it was five bucks a car load. This local historian visits many of the film's location in the Stockton, CA area. Other films filmed around there was Cool Hand Luke, Blood Alley (in the Delta), and The Big Country. he also did videos of the first two. We watched this movie not long ago and the acting is terrible as mentioned in this video. But it's a fun car chase movie none the less.

Visiting 1973 Filming Locations of "Dirty Mary Crazy Larry" w/ Peter Fonda & Susan George - YouTube

 

[quikdraw67]

Doesn't it end with them getting creamed by a train?

 

[Wyatt Burp]

Doesn't it end with them getting creamed by a train?

Spoiler alert………..YES! And the place where that happened is showed in this video. I'm about forty five minutes from these areas and I want to visit a Cool Hand Luke location. The old store where he removed his chains and dumped pepper on the ground to mess with the bloodhounds.

 

[SPEEDGUNNER]

"Blockbuster"...please.

 

[rockquarry]

Far from a good movie and I should have known that before watching it. Peter Fonda's name in the credits was certainly a clue.

 

[tomhenry]

Doesn't it end with them getting creamed by a train?

Yes, like Easy Rider (another horrid movie), a statement of existential nihilism. Ditto Cool Hand Luke. And others.

 

[jag312]

I remember the little grocery store in the movie. We would stop there on the way home for a cold soft drink. Across the road was a little old man who had a small workshop where he made wooden wagon wheels.

 

[BB57]

Speaking of bad movies, I visited the town square and the ice cream store where Billy Jack was filmed, while I was attending ERA-U.

JR's was the local college bar and it was more or less across the square from the ice cream store. 38 years later I'm more interested in whether that bar is still there. It had character. And I'd like to visit the Ruger facility there.

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About 10 years ago while conducting a review in CA, I had a weekend to kill in San Francisco and went looking for some of the Dirty Harry movie locations. Some were still there and recognizable, some were not.

 

[rockquarry]

Speaking of bad movies, I visited the town square and the ice cream store where Billy Jack was filmed, while I was attending ERA-U.

JR's was the local college bar and it was more or less across the square from the ice cream store. 38 years later I'm more interested in whether that bar is still there. It had character. And I'd like to visit the Ruger facility there.

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About 10 years ago while conducting a review in CA, I had a weekend to kill in San Francisco and went looking for some of the Dirty Harry movie locations. Some were still there and recognizable, some were not.

Billy Jack was made during an era when many bad movies were filmed. I don't know if that's a testimony to the poor taste of many movie goers, the lack of good material, or the strange, troubled, and untalented folks that put these things together.

 

[meaneyedcatz]

I had seen that movie when young and thought it was so cool. I watched it again about a year ago. Could not believe how stupid and poor the acting was.

 

[WH1]

Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry is about the Charger & the chase. That's why I like it. Even though it's no Vanishing Point.