The Wild Ride (1960)
3/10
Jack Nicholson was a very thin guy when he was young
24 November 2022
That's about all I learned from this film.

Jack plays Johnny, the leader of the pack. His scene is driving racing cars, and running people off the road. As the film opens, he is playing chicken with a motorcycle cop; the cop loses. Johnny's pal Dave is dating a new chick, Nancy. Dave and Nancy play chicken with Barny and Joyce. (Don't worry about the names; there won't be a quiz later.) Dave goes shallow, and ends up in a ditch. Johnny tells Dave to dump the chick, because she doesn't dig their scene, and she has Dave mixed. I have no idea what I am typing.

Johnny enters a road race and wins the trophy, mainly because he forces other drivers off the track. Johnny apparently went to the Lindsay Lohan Driving Academy. Johnny takes Nancy for a ride, but Barny drops a dime on him and alerts Dave. Dave comes flying down the road (don't ask me how he knows where to go), sees Johnny fondling Nancy, and splits. Johnny yells that he was just trying to scare Nancy. Johnny takes off after Dave. Somebody has an accident (besides audience members, who were probably soiling themselves). The End.

Except for Nicholson, I have no idea who any of these other people are (were). The chicks, especially Nancy, are not that good looking; in fairness, neither are the guys. Someone needs to tell the filmmakers to look up the words "editing" and "continuity." The only interesting idea is that Nicholson was apparently fooling around with an older, married woman, whom we see in a few brief scenes. She is a woof, and wears a pyramid-like hat which appears to be made of limp porcupine quills. The background music is the same as in "Hot Car Girl," which is to say, it stinks. Nothing happens until around the 59-minute mark, which, coincidentally, is when the words "The End" appear on screen.
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