The California Kid (DVD, 2007)

The car is the star. Martin Sheen is a worthy co-star as is Vic Morrow and Nick Nolte. Michelle Phillips does fine as well....but the car and the other cars are the meat and potatoes of this flick.
Cool story of a sheriff that went off his rocker when a hit and run driver killed his wife and child. He starts pushing traffic violaters off a cliff with his souped up Cop-rod '57 Plymouth (Christine's clone). All the deputies have 6 year old cars to drive which are also souped to the gills to catch speeders...in the most famous speed trap in the area.
Vic does the dirty dog, as always, to the bone. Running his territory like an evil tyrant.
Sheen shows up and the sheriff's nerves become frazzled...he knows something is going down when Mike won't run away from his town.

I loved this flick when I first saw it- as a kid in the 70s. It is set in 1958, and Happy Days was popular. This flick also has a leather jacketed, troubled individual. I grew up to be that troubled outsider. It features actors we still know and admire today- A young Martin Sheen, and Nick Nolte. And what red-blooded kid doesn't like stuff about older kids "makin out"? This flick may've had somethin to do with the beggining of my fascination with California. :)

Great movie,great story line, and great acting, o-ya neat car.Martin Sheen did a great job as usual and so did Nick Nolte,Vic Morrow,and Michelle Phillips.I would like to see more movies like this one.

The last time I saw this movie I was only a teenager in the late 70's. I saw it advertised on Ebay last month and it brought back memories. If you like old car movies, then this is one you'll just have to have for your collection. Martin Sheen is an older brother out to avenge the death of his younger brother by a corrupt small town sheriff played by Vic Morrow.
This movie does not have stunts that make you think cars can fly 100's of feet and land without a scratch, or crash through a brick wall and still get away from the police.
I would say this movie is every bit as good as movies like- Return to Macon County, Two Lane Blacktop, American Graffiti, etc...

I had been looking for this movie for a very long time, as in almost 20 years or more. There was nothing about it I disliked. It was just like an old west type of movie, where the handsome stranger come's to town gunning for the sheriff, looking to get revenge for the sheriff's killing of his brother. Justice the old west way. Martin Sheen, Vic Morow, and Nick Nolte were great.