Dirty Mary Crazy Larry – 1974
No one’s faster than Crazy Larry, except Dirty Mary!
Director
John Hough

Writers
Leigh Chapman
Antonio Santean
Richard Unekis novel The Chase

Producers
Norman T. Herman producer
Mickey Zide associate producer
Susan Hart executive producer (uncredited)

Cast
Peter Fonda – Larry Rayder
Susan George – Mary Coombs
Adam Roarke – Deke Sommers
Kenneth Tobey – Carl Donahue
Eugene Daniels – Hanks
Lynn Borden – Evelyn Stanton
Janear Hines – Millie
Elizabeth James – Dispatcher
Adrianne Herman – Cindy Stanton
Tom Castranova – Steve
James W. Gavin – Helicopter Pilot
Al Rossi – Surl
Ben Niems – Police Chief Markey
George Westcott – Bridge Operator
Tom O’Neill – Farmer
Edna MacAfee – Seller at Swapmeet
Don Coughlin – Swapmeet Character #1
Sonny Dukes – Swapmeet Character #2
Beau Gentry – Swapmeet Character #3
Bob Hirshfield – Swapmeet Character #4
Bill Catching – Roy Bailes
Jody Carlson – Telephone Operator
Tom Howard Jr. – Trooper #1
Craig Kelly – Trooper #2
Larry Luttrell – Trooper #3
Gary McLarty – Trooper #4
Bob Minor – Trooper #5
Jerry Summers – Trooper #6
Dick Warlock – Trooper #7
Ted White – Trooper #8
Jerry Wills – Trooper #9
Al Wyatt Jr. – Trooper #10
Vic Morrow – Everett Franklin
Roddy McDowall – George Stanton (uncredited)
Al Wyatt Sr. – Bartender (uncredited)

Review by Theo Robertson

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
I had very fond memories of DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY after seeing it many years ago . The ending is very memorable and featured in the title sequence of the popular Lee Majors show THE FALL GUY and every teenage boy can can remember a Susan George movie

I saw the movie again a few nights ago and I was very disappointed with it . The central plot of carrying out a heist is a sound one but doesn’t seem very well developed and seems more of an excuse to kick start the movie into a road chase . I’ve always thought that if Peter Fonda had a birth name of Jones and was related to a bunch of factory workers then there would have been no way that he’d have become a movie star and seeing him in DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY does nothing to change my opinion.

The role of Deke seems to have been written for Jack Nicholson therefore Adam Roarke does a very bad impression of Jack Nicholson while it’s obvious that in many scenes Susan George’s voice is dubbed which is very distracting . Yeah I know a lot of women will confirm that their husbands get distracted by an on screen appearance from Ms George but that’s not what I meant.

But perhaps the worst aspect to the movie is the dialogue which tries to be very clever and ends up being very unnatural and forced . Take this example :

” Every bone in her crotch . That’s what I’m gonna break ”

Does that sound witty or just plain silly ? I could have used countless other examples too.

Mind you this movie did make a fairly large profit in relation to its production costs but it is rather obvious here that the road movie is a very self limiting genre and if you can’t remember the 1970s you probably won’t think much of DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY