C.C. and Company
by Seymour Robbie
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Actor: Ann-Margret, Jennifer Billingsley, Joe Namath, Mike Battle, William SmithDirector: Seymour Robbie
Brand: Music Video Dist
Writer: Roger Smith
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 03-003
Studio: Cheezy Flicks Ent
Product features:
- Original Release 1970, Color, 94 Minutes
- Rating: PG, 4:3 Aspect Ratio
- Digitally Remastered
DVD Reviews of C.C. and Company
DVD Review: Broadway Joe Namath, Unintentional Outlaw Hilarity, And The Grossest Sandwich Ever
Summary: 3 Stars
"C. C. and Company" is a film that could only have existed in 1970. Coming off his victory in Super Bowl III in 1969, Namath could do pretty much anything he wanted to, and one of the things he wanted to do was act. I'm normally not much on professional athletes turned actors (although Rosey Grier starring opposite Ray Milland in "The Thing With Two Heads" is an all-time B-movie great,) Namath acquits himself adequately as the unfortunately named C. C. Ryder, the good biker in "The Heads," the rotten to the core gang he finds himself in. The film opens with Namath foraging in a supermarket and making himself a sandwich on the baby seat of a shopping cart. While he was eating the sandwich all I could think of was the recent news report I had read that discussed how that area is the most germ-laden area of a cart due to baby diaper contact.
After downing the sandwich the very mod split-screen credits open up while a generic version of "C. C. Rider" blares in the background (the version by Elvis would have been really welcome at this point; so would the version by Peggy Lee for that matter...) and we quickly find that Namath is the one good guy in the gang when he comes to the aid of beautiful Ann-Margret, whose limo is stranded in the desert, saving her from the ravages of two other bikers, and getting into a feud with the leader of the pack, Moon (William Smith, who turns in a good and genuinely deranged performance) in defense of her honor.
The Heads are a bunch of miscreants with names like Rabbit, Lizard, Pig, Pom Pom, and Zit-Zit, and the backstory explaining Namath's presence in the gang is less than convincing. You know they are real bad characters right off the bat because the first thing they do is enter a motocross race. Settle in, because there's lots of motocross action throughout the remainder of the film, and you will be surprised how boring that can be. Ann-Margret shows up at the race (of course) because there is a cross-promotional contract between a fashion designer and a motorcycle race promoter. (That makes perfect sense.) The simply idiotic love story that follows is only one ridiculous element of the vapid plot structure of this film, but enjoy the cheese factor (the DVD was released by Cheezy Flicks, after all.) To impress Ann-Margret, Namath enters the race and makes quite the impression by taking third place by carrying his bike across the finish line, thus cementing "C. C. and Company" in permanent first place in the lame biker movie awards.
Moon becomes jealous of C. C.'s newfound fame and desire to retain some of the funds he has earned (Moon runs "The Heads" as a commune with himself as head Head and treasurer.) This split in the group leads to fisticuffs that go on for quite a while and end pretty much in a draw. C. C. leaves the group, heads over to Ann-Margret's place, picks her up and goes dancing in the official start to one of the most putrescent on-screen romances in history. The musical romance montage is particularly unbearable. Still jealous, The Heads invade Ann-Margret's house, kidnapping her for a ransom of $2,000. It's really more of a bet, because the resolution involves them breaking into a stadium at night for Moon and C. C. to race. Moon meets a hilariously over-the-top demise, while C. C. rescues Ann-Margret, and they escape in a big nighttime motorcycle chase. If you found the endless motorcycle scenes boring in daylight, just wait until you see the lack of excitement that prevails when all you can see are streams of headlights for minutes on end. It's simply interminable. The film closes with Namath and Ann-Margret outfoxing The Heads and cleverly destroying their bikes (which is a genuinely amusing, if unbelievable scene.) They decide to go on the road together, and the two ride off into a future of certain bliss.
The film suffers from several technical problems that are apparent throughout, one of which is that this print is quite dark and grainy, but the most annoying of which is easily the incidental music which is omnipresent and is xylophone, slide whistle, and trumpet intensive. Don't miss the credits, which explain that the film was made largely in Tucson, but that the dancing part was filmed in the "Fabulous Flamingo Hotel" in Las Vegas. That particular credit may be a bit adjectivally-challenged in the accuracy part in the opinion of some: certainly "fabulous" would not have been a word I used to describe that particular hotel, but to each his own. Please also enjoy the "Intermission" extra, which I found wonderfully appropriate for a film of this vintage.
"C. C. and Company" is entertaining as a B-movie relic of the early 1970's, and although utterly implausible, predictable, and heavy-handed, it's still worth a look for lovers of camp, motorcycles, or football.
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