
If you can't beat 'em ... drive 'em crazy!
A group of misfits decide to leave for a place that they can all be free. Their mode of transportation is a PBY flying boat. The only problem is that the PBY needs a lot of work and they will need jobs to pay for the parts. When they find that they have only 10 days before the PBY is sold for scrap, they decide on borrowing the parts for their trip
- 5.0
- 1973
- Released
- 1h 33m

Donald Sutherland
Jesse Veldini
Peter Boyle
Eagle Thornberry
Jane Fonda
Iris Caine
Howard Hesseman
Frank Veldini
John Savage
Kid
Mel Stewart
Black Man in Jail
Morgan Upton
Bill the Police Captain
Jessica Myerson
Savage Rose
Beans Morocco
Rocky (as Dan Barrows)
Nancy Fish
Pool Hall Waitress
Roger Bowen
Fire Commissioner Francis
Garry Goodrow
Duval JaxReleased
en
- #release from prison
- #flying boat
Reviews

I usually reckon that heist movies are always more interesting as the plotters get together and do their scheming, then they fall away a bit as very, very, rarely do they ever get away with their crime. Well this one has the scheming phase, ok, but it isn’t remotely interesting. Donald Sutherland heads the cast with what’s almost an identical reprise of his quirky “Oddball” character from “Kelly’s

_**Oddball drama about outcasts (Sutherland, Boyle and Fonda) starts shaky, but finds its footing**_ A group of misfits in the Oakland area hang out in a junkyard and an abandoned airstrip. They come up with the harebrained scheme of repairing a PBY Catalina flying boat and escaping their troubles. Donald Sutherland plays the black sheep brother of a district attorney (Howard Hesseman) while Ja











