Lolly Madonna XXX

Lolly Madonna XXX Directed By Richard Sarafian, Starring Season Hubley (1973).

Review By Kris Gilpin

Additional notes by Crank in Blue

In 1973 Richard (Vanishing Point, Fragment of Fear) Sarafian directed Lolly Madonna XXX (aka The Lolly Madonna War), a backwoods drama about two feuding hick families, the Feathers (headed by Rod Steiger) and the Gutshalls (cool name), whose patriarch is Robert Ryan. The X's mean hugs and kisses not what you'd think, I bet alot of suckers tried to download this thinking Rod Steiger was gonna get down to some corn holing with Season Hubley and were sorely disappointed. The porn rating didn't exist yet, but my perverted mind immediately went there.

Their kids are an amazing group of young character actors: Jeff Bridges, Scott Wilson, Timothy Scott (who gave one of my fave sleaze performances in the lost revenge flick, The Farmer), Ed Lauter, Randy Quaid, Paul Koslo & Gary Busey (!). (I gotta check out The Farmer, sounds really scuzzy. It features a little known but memorable character actor named George Memmoli who was in a horrific on set accident that led to his death and him bowing out of Taxi Driver, as the psychotic passenger who was played by Scorcese. I loved his role as Swan's henchman in Phantom of The Paradise-Ed).  

Deliverance roleplay 

It was written by Sue Grafton, from her own novel. She's also famous for writing tons of her alphabetical detective novels (A is for Alibi, etc.).

Season Hubley arrives in this one-pig town and, via a mistaken-identity prank, is kidnapped by scumbags Lauter and Wilson. This slowly begins another feud which eventually escalates into almost everyone getting killed. (I always think of Season as the hooker that George C. Scott abandons and uses after he finds his daughter who despises him and thought she did an excellent job in Vice Squad, she also has a similar short haircut in this too-Ed).

stop type casting me crank, I'm more than just some street hussy!

Bridges is a good son who connects with Hubley, and Carey is his good brother. Lauter (who has fantasies of being a huge mouth harp star--!) and Wilson rape Gutshall girl Joan Goodfellow, who I remember from the B-rape/revenge movie Buster and Billie, with Jan-Michael Vincent. And Quaid is the youngest sibling, who has mental problems. (The boys are constantly getting haircuts or having their stitches sewn up by the Granny. Ed Lauter does a pretty good job as a cross dressing hillbilly and I loved the interview he did for Shock Cinema where he mentions that Hitchcock was so enamored by him that he had all these roles specifically planned out for the Long Island born character actor who sadly passed away a few years ago-Ed).

who did you say sexually assaulted you, George Glass?

And meanwhile, as things get batshit outside, Steiger eventually goes crazy and makes a big sammich ("Tell im I'm busy!"). Folks get shot, beaten to death and have their brains blown out...

(There's an amazing super slo-mo death scene with Steiger gunning down a few dozen horses, it looks uncomfortably real and Gary Busey's noggin gets an exit wound for his brain to escape).

would you happen to have any chow-chow for my possum sammich

This was just seen uncut on Turner Classic Movies, and is definitely worth you checking it out ;-). Warner Archives offers a DVD.

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Oops I slid into first and felt something burst!