The Hollywood Knights

1980

Action / Comedy

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 72% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 72% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 5591 5.6K

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Plot summary

Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. Everything from drag racing to Vietnam to high school love.

Director

Floyd Mutrux Photo
Floyd Mutrux

Top cast

Art LaFleur Photo
Art LaFleur as Thomas
Eric Christmas Photo
Eric Christmas as Mr. Katzenberg
T.K. Carter Photo
T.K. Carter as Do Wopper
Garry Goodrow Photo
Garry Goodrow as Jack Friedman
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
840.52 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 1
1.63 GB
1920*1040
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by PeterPizzazz 7 / 10

Great Picture, Bad Editing

This is a great movie. I first saw it in my younger years on cable and loved the gags. Now, much older but not too much more mature, I can still appreciate the gags - I have to say the editing in this movie is horrible! Very disjointed and the sequencing makes no sense. Each scene is a gem in it's own right, but whom ever threaded this together left something to be desired. I guess since there are at least 5 story lines going on, you will find something you like, but don't get too involved - your head will spin by the time they get back to it. Great soundtrack, awesome cars - fun to see many stars first time out - Hubba Hubba to Michelle P. Look for the skinny cop in Spaceballs. Now that it's on cable - it's a fun-must see. I'm glad I never paid for it though!
Reviewed by mark.waltz 5 / 10

Fabulous music, vintage cars and future stars, but hardly a story.

While Tony Danza had just achieved success in TV's "Taxi", others in this film, such as Robert Wuhl, Michelle Pfeiffer and Fran Drescher would take much longer to rise up the ranks, some longer than others, and I doubt that they'd consider this more than just a minor footnote in their earlier years. Drescher's nasal voice is recognizable right off, and has one rather memorable line (of a rather raunchy nature) that lovers of cinematic camp still quote. The plot is thin, in fact thinner than deli meat slices fresh off the slicer, but oh those songs, practically every chart buster of the mid 1960's heard here. But then again, many of these songs have been used over and over in motion pictures and Broadway jukebox musicals, with everything from Motown, "Jersey Boys" and "Sister Act" (the movie) popping up in the viewer's memories of where they've heard them or seen them performed.Part of the plot I recognize from the musical "Rock of Ages" with uptight Beverly Hills matrons determine to stop the Hollywood Knights from having their annual Halloween madness down their streets, and of course, it's obvious that the one In charge of this protest is going to end up being seduced by one of the dashing hoods. Pfeiffer is wide eyed and innocent as a greasy spoon waitress, and while stunning shows none of the dramatic Chops and she would later become well known for. But I doubt that this part had any real meat in the script, so it was a good way to pay her dues and be noticed which obviously she was. Drescher gets the comedy, but when all of the bathing beauties around her are topless, she is the only one to have all of her clothes on. (Check her out in the following year's "Ragtime" to see her in a very different part.) This basically is a fun nostalgic film that the viewer can watch and not really have to spend much brain cells on outside of tapping their feet and moving their head to the rhythm. There have been better movies about this era with stronger plots, but for what is here, it's still fun if just for the soundtrack and a few amusing moments with a teeny bit of gratuitous flesh.
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