''The Comeback Trail,'' a previously unreleased 1974 comedy that opens today at the Thalia, features Mr. McCann in long, greasy hair and an exaggerated mustache, speaking with … Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones and Morgan Freeman to star in 'The Comeback Trail' remake.

This loopy cult-film relic is often a tedious slog, but Crabbe's winning performance makes it well worth your time. There's workmanlike cinematography from (PROJECTIONIST alumnus) Victor Petrashevic, with second unit camerawork by Joåo Fernandes (who, as Harry Flecks, later shot DEVIL IN MISS JONES and DEEP THROAT). A low-rent film about low-rent filmmaking, this slapdash outing boasts a fraud-fueled, PRODUCERS-style concept; a standout performance from 62-year-old Olympic gold medalist and ex-Flash Gordon, Buster Crabbe; plus an inexplicably strange turn by early NYC-children's-TV legend Chuck McCann, who played the title role of THE PROJECTIONIST and later co-created/starred in Saturday morning's FAR OUT SPACE NUTS... For their latest 'brilliant' get-rich-quick scheme, deadbeat movie producer duo Enrico Kodac (McCann) and E. Eddie Eestman (Robert Staats) decide to hire a decrepit, near-death actor to star in their next poverty-row flick, then collect a two-million-dollar insurance pay-off when he 'accidentally' croaks due to overexertion. E-mail us at: ShockCin@aol.com. Awards It is a remake of the 1982 film of the same name by Harry Hurwitz. R | 1h 16min | Comedy | 1 March 1982 (USA) Two bumbling "producers" are in danger of losing their company because they're in hock up to their ears. The Comeback Trail is a 1982 film directed by Harry Hurwitz. "Comeback Trail"Is a forgettable look at movie pornography.As Hurwitz fills the script with unnecessary violence,Tasteless gags,foul language and unreal settings that do little to endear this stupid parody of … After a failed attempt to shoot their penny-ante western in the middle of Central Park, everyone (including PROJECTIONIST ingénue Ina Balin, as the partners' secretary) relocates to an actual Old West set (the J.W. The Comeback Trail is an upcoming American crime comedy film written and directed by George Gallo. The 1982 original film followed two down-on-their-luck film producers, Eastman and Kodac, who decide to make a Western film with an old actor in hopes that he will die and they will collect the insurance money. External Reviews Wildly overacting throughout, McCann sports a hooked putty nose, greasy long hair, curled fake mustache, and outlandish Italian accent -- basically, an overgrown, penny-ante version of Danny DeVito's Penguin -- and though the film is only 75 minutes, a reel's worth of his obviously-improvised banter with Staats could've been ditched without any great loss. Casting Crabbe was an inspired decision though, and while Buster seems lost whenever the on-camera clowning goes overboard (e.g., an appearance on THE JOE FRANKLIN SHOW), he genuinely embraces his character and earns the biggest laughs. In this second and last feature film comedy for Harry Hurwitz.Chuck McCann again tries to satirize the movie making industry.But Unlike his previous endeavour with Hurwitz:"The Projectionist". Writer-director Harry Hurwitz first came to the attention of fringe-cinema fans with his surreal and heartfelt THE PROJECTIONIST, but before that film was released in early 1971, he was already busy shooting this follow-up comedy, which was copyrighted in 1973, but didn't officially premiere until 1982! "Comeback Trail"Is a forgettable look at movie pornography.As Hurwitz fills the script with unnecessary violence,Tasteless gags,foul language and unreal settings that do little to endear this stupid parody of low budget filmaking to audiences and film students.The plot(Or what little plot there is)has "Enrico Kodiak"(McCann)(A bad screen version of Chuck's popular kidult tv villian:"The Great Bombo Dump")and his bumbling partner:"E.Eddie Eastman"(Bob Stats)trying to find a way of saving their little film business by trying to get enough monies to pay off their creditors.They come up with a scheme to bring an ex movie cowboy actor:"Bute Montanna"(Buster Crabbe)out of retirement to appear in a contemporary western and.Since the two fiends believe that this old guy is in no shape to do the strenouious stunts on camera.He'll drop dead,as the only beneficaries of his life insurance policy.They collect a fortune and pay off the bill collectors.But "Montanna"prepares himself for the film and succeeds in not only making the film a hit.He also takes over "Kodiak's & Eastman's"studio and their fourtunes.Crabbe gives his most capable performance in this film.But with little or no plot and with alot of offensive material being done.There is only so much that he can do in this film.Even Ina Ballin and Jara Kohout(Chuck's co stars from The Projectionist)do very little to help make this film a hit. The Comeback Trail ( 1982) The Comeback Trail. FAQ Eaves movie ranch, near Santa Fe, New Mexico). The scattershot script is littered with inventive ideas, like how these producers are so broke that they work out of an old, cutaway movie set of an office; but just as often, gags spectacularly misfire (e.g., hiring an Adolph Hitler lookalike to direct the western?). | The new film also stars Eddie Griffin, Emile Hirsch and Kate Katzman. Metacritic Reviews. It stars Chuck McCann and, in his final screen role, Buster Crabbe. | It stars Chuck McCann and, in his final screen role, Buster Crabbe. Two down-on-their-luck film producers, Eastman and Kodac, decide to make a Western film with an old actor in hopes that he will die and they will collect the insurance money. This film has a following of three people. THE COMEBACK TRAIL (1982). This Hurwitz Film should Never Have Left The Trail. Need additional information? In order to pay off their debts and in the process make … User Ratings Hugh Hefner also makes a bookending cameo, visiting Duke at his posh Hollywood digs. Their casting choice is aged, long-retired western-serial veteran Duke Montana (Crabbe). My favorite comedy feature of all time. See this movie…don't worry you can trust me, I'm a Werner Herzog fan!

Unfortunately I'm one of them.

Hollywood's biggest icons Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, and Morgan Freeman … The Comeback Trail is a 1982 film directed by Harry Hurwitz. In this second and last feature film comedy for Harry Hurwitz.Chuck McCann again tries to satirize the movie making industry.But Unlike his previous endeavour with Hurwitz:"The Projectionist".
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Comeback_Trail&oldid=965242508, Articles needing additional references from October 2019, All articles needing additional references, Articles to be expanded from January 2010, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 30 June 2020, at 06:36. © 2017 by Steven Puchalski. The Comeback Trail was written and directed by George Gallo and is a remake of Harry Hurwitz’s 1982 film of the same name.
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The film features several cameos of people playing themselves, such as Hugh Hefner, Henny Youngman and Irwin Corey.[1]. "The Comeback Trail"is Buster Crabbe's Last Movie.It's sad that this film provides very little in the way of thrills and excitement for Buster Crabbe fans or gives us any real comedy or nostalgia remincising for old movies fans or for fans of movie comedy and fans of Chuck McCann in general.Kevin S.Butler. | It stars Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman, Zach Braff, Emile Hirsch, Eddie Griffin, and Kate Katzman. Writer-director Harry Hurwitz first came to the attention of fringe-cinema fans with his surreal and heartfelt THE PROJECTIONIST, but before that film was released in early 1971, he was already busy shooting this follow-up comedy, which was copyrighted in 1973, but didn't officially premiere until 1982! Unfortunately, when this old dude shows up to work, it turns out he's in better physical condition than they are! Years afterward, Crabbe referred to the film as the best thing he'd ever done on-screen, but also blamed its lack of distribution on "pornographic" scenes, obviously alluding to Hurwitz's wonderfully odd clips of the producers' past projects -- the sexploitation-musical "These Raging Loins," with topless dancing girls and Monti Rock III; a series of el cheapo genre films featuring Henny Youngman; plus the horrific "The Revenge of the Chicken Man," starring a rambling, cursing Professor Irwin Corey and manic stand-up Lenny Schultz. | Harry Hurwitz's greatest film.
''The Comeback Trail,'' a previously unreleased 1974 comedy that opens today at the Thalia, features Mr. McCann in long, greasy hair and an exaggerated mustache, speaking with … Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones and Morgan Freeman to star in 'The Comeback Trail' remake.

This loopy cult-film relic is often a tedious slog, but Crabbe's winning performance makes it well worth your time. There's workmanlike cinematography from (PROJECTIONIST alumnus) Victor Petrashevic, with second unit camerawork by Joåo Fernandes (who, as Harry Flecks, later shot DEVIL IN MISS JONES and DEEP THROAT). A low-rent film about low-rent filmmaking, this slapdash outing boasts a fraud-fueled, PRODUCERS-style concept; a standout performance from 62-year-old Olympic gold medalist and ex-Flash Gordon, Buster Crabbe; plus an inexplicably strange turn by early NYC-children's-TV legend Chuck McCann, who played the title role of THE PROJECTIONIST and later co-created/starred in Saturday morning's FAR OUT SPACE NUTS... For their latest 'brilliant' get-rich-quick scheme, deadbeat movie producer duo Enrico Kodac (McCann) and E. Eddie Eestman (Robert Staats) decide to hire a decrepit, near-death actor to star in their next poverty-row flick, then collect a two-million-dollar insurance pay-off when he 'accidentally' croaks due to overexertion. E-mail us at: ShockCin@aol.com. Awards It is a remake of the 1982 film of the same name by Harry Hurwitz. R | 1h 16min | Comedy | 1 March 1982 (USA) Two bumbling "producers" are in danger of losing their company because they're in hock up to their ears. The Comeback Trail is a 1982 film directed by Harry Hurwitz. "Comeback Trail"Is a forgettable look at movie pornography.As Hurwitz fills the script with unnecessary violence,Tasteless gags,foul language and unreal settings that do little to endear this stupid parody of … After a failed attempt to shoot their penny-ante western in the middle of Central Park, everyone (including PROJECTIONIST ingénue Ina Balin, as the partners' secretary) relocates to an actual Old West set (the J.W. The Comeback Trail is an upcoming American crime comedy film written and directed by George Gallo. The 1982 original film followed two down-on-their-luck film producers, Eastman and Kodac, who decide to make a Western film with an old actor in hopes that he will die and they will collect the insurance money. External Reviews Wildly overacting throughout, McCann sports a hooked putty nose, greasy long hair, curled fake mustache, and outlandish Italian accent -- basically, an overgrown, penny-ante version of Danny DeVito's Penguin -- and though the film is only 75 minutes, a reel's worth of his obviously-improvised banter with Staats could've been ditched without any great loss. Casting Crabbe was an inspired decision though, and while Buster seems lost whenever the on-camera clowning goes overboard (e.g., an appearance on THE JOE FRANKLIN SHOW), he genuinely embraces his character and earns the biggest laughs. In this second and last feature film comedy for Harry Hurwitz.Chuck McCann again tries to satirize the movie making industry.But Unlike his previous endeavour with Hurwitz:"The Projectionist". Writer-director Harry Hurwitz first came to the attention of fringe-cinema fans with his surreal and heartfelt THE PROJECTIONIST, but before that film was released in early 1971, he was already busy shooting this follow-up comedy, which was copyrighted in 1973, but didn't officially premiere until 1982! "Comeback Trail"Is a forgettable look at movie pornography.As Hurwitz fills the script with unnecessary violence,Tasteless gags,foul language and unreal settings that do little to endear this stupid parody of low budget filmaking to audiences and film students.The plot(Or what little plot there is)has "Enrico Kodiak"(McCann)(A bad screen version of Chuck's popular kidult tv villian:"The Great Bombo Dump")and his bumbling partner:"E.Eddie Eastman"(Bob Stats)trying to find a way of saving their little film business by trying to get enough monies to pay off their creditors.They come up with a scheme to bring an ex movie cowboy actor:"Bute Montanna"(Buster Crabbe)out of retirement to appear in a contemporary western and.Since the two fiends believe that this old guy is in no shape to do the strenouious stunts on camera.He'll drop dead,as the only beneficaries of his life insurance policy.They collect a fortune and pay off the bill collectors.But "Montanna"prepares himself for the film and succeeds in not only making the film a hit.He also takes over "Kodiak's & Eastman's"studio and their fourtunes.Crabbe gives his most capable performance in this film.But with little or no plot and with alot of offensive material being done.There is only so much that he can do in this film.Even Ina Ballin and Jara Kohout(Chuck's co stars from The Projectionist)do very little to help make this film a hit. The Comeback Trail ( 1982) The Comeback Trail. FAQ Eaves movie ranch, near Santa Fe, New Mexico). The scattershot script is littered with inventive ideas, like how these producers are so broke that they work out of an old, cutaway movie set of an office; but just as often, gags spectacularly misfire (e.g., hiring an Adolph Hitler lookalike to direct the western?). | The new film also stars Eddie Griffin, Emile Hirsch and Kate Katzman. Metacritic Reviews. It stars Chuck McCann and, in his final screen role, Buster Crabbe. | It stars Chuck McCann and, in his final screen role, Buster Crabbe. Two down-on-their-luck film producers, Eastman and Kodac, decide to make a Western film with an old actor in hopes that he will die and they will collect the insurance money. This film has a following of three people. THE COMEBACK TRAIL (1982). This Hurwitz Film should Never Have Left The Trail. Need additional information? In order to pay off their debts and in the process make … User Ratings Hugh Hefner also makes a bookending cameo, visiting Duke at his posh Hollywood digs. Their casting choice is aged, long-retired western-serial veteran Duke Montana (Crabbe). My favorite comedy feature of all time. See this movie…don't worry you can trust me, I'm a Werner Herzog fan!

Unfortunately I'm one of them.

Hollywood's biggest icons Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, and Morgan Freeman … The Comeback Trail is a 1982 film directed by Harry Hurwitz. In this second and last feature film comedy for Harry Hurwitz.Chuck McCann again tries to satirize the movie making industry.But Unlike his previous endeavour with Hurwitz:"The Projectionist".
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Comeback_Trail&oldid=965242508, Articles needing additional references from October 2019, All articles needing additional references, Articles to be expanded from January 2010, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 30 June 2020, at 06:36. © 2017 by Steven Puchalski. The Comeback Trail was written and directed by George Gallo and is a remake of Harry Hurwitz’s 1982 film of the same name.

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