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By DAVID BAKER
One of my biggest complaints
against the more
recent collections of holiday
movies has been the
abundance of pictures aimed
solely at redneck audiences.
Last year brought us such
low-brow garbage as
"Smokey and the Bandit 11"
and "Any Which Way You
Can." In the past month
we've been exposed to even
more excreble fare such as
"The Cannonball Run" and
"The Night the Lights Went
Oui In Georgia."
Like "Georgia," the latest
addition to this particularly
irritating sub-genre of films
is based on a hit Countrv anH
Western song. Directed by
Gus Trikonis, the picture is
called "Take This Job and
Shove It." As much as I hate
to admit it, the movie merits
being seen.
It simply doesn't have a
malicious bone in its body.
The film seems to lumber
right off the screen, big and
friendly, wanting to shake
your hand, pat your back
and take you into all its
confidences. It likes you so
much that you'd feel like a
heel if you didn't return
some of its affection. A
rather sneaky way to
become a hit, but it works.
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THE MOVIE'S central
character is Frank Mackiin
(44 Airplane"'s Robert
Hays), a wealthy.
womanizing corporate vicepresident.
As the picture
opens, Frank is told that he
must leave Minneapolis and
go back to his home town of
Dubuque, Iowa. His job,
once there, is to take charge
of the local brewery and
make quantity, not quality,
the primary objective of the
production line.
After accomplishing this
aim, however, Frank
discovers that both he and
the brewery workers have
been used, that the only
reason the corporation
wanted production raised
was so that it could resell the
brewery to a Texas
millionare whose methods of
operation are even more
unscrupulous than its own.
With the aid of his buddies
from high school (Tim
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girlfriend (Barbara Hershey),
Frank devises a plan
that will both save his 1
worker's livelihoods and I
ruin the corporation's plans
for the brewery.
To be sure, the heart of
"Take This Job and Shove
It" beats to the rhythm of
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the movie isn't afraid to
show how really hard it is for
the homefolk to make
financial ends meet. The
homes of Frank's buddies
are quite squalid and what
social life they have isn't all
enviable, either. A night on
the town for the workers
consists of shooting pool,
drinking beer and grousing
about their jobs and other
dissatisfactions.
Several scenes, most of
them very humorous, also
demonstrate the contempt
these people hold for those in
positions of power.
One such scene, very early
in the picture, has Frank
speeding into Dubuque in his
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convertible. Once inside the
city limits, he finds himself
behind a beaten-up old
cadillac, which refuses to let
him pass. This, of course,
makes Frank all the more
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Frank realizes the driver of
the caddy is his best friend
from high school.
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The small but telling
scenes like this one are what
elevates "Take This Job and
Shove It" far above the kind
of movie one would expect it
to be, given its exploitive
advertising campaign.
ALSO NOTEWORTHY is
the uniformly fine acting by
the supportting cast, including
Martin Mull, as a
deliciously evil corporate
hatchet man, and Art
Carney, as the crustv former
poesident of the brewery.
Hays solidifies his standing
as one of Hollywood's
most likeable young actors,
and, in a switch from his
straight-man role in "Airplane,"
he proves that he
can be funny while
delivering snappy dialogue.
"Take This Job and Shove
It" is not in the same class
with "Raiders of the Lost
Ark," "Superman II" or
"S.O.B.," but it's fun while it
lasts. Unlike so many of the
other summer movies,
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you want to leave the theatre
and head straight for a
shower. For that reason
alone, it shouldn't be missed.
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Rock fans and weekend campers are expected to begin
arriving from a four state arc on Friday, with music
beginning on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. and continuing non-stop
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Grinder Switch has earned a reputation for hard-driving,
straight-forward music. Grinder Switch rocks, but rocks with
feeling, having its foundation in blues and thythm and blues.
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recenuy "Kignt on Time,'' all on the Capricorn label. The
band just completed recording an album at Quadrafonic
Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, on the Robox label ? it is
scheduled for release this mopth.
Stillwater is composed of seven musicians who play rock 'n
roll and play it well. In addition to their first two albums on
the Capricorn label, Stillwater is featured on two of the
Charlie Daniels Volunteer Jam albums, and has appeared
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reached the top 10 in most of the South, and negotiations are
under way with several major labels for a 1981 album
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