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Pray for the Wildcats

Rating: 3.0/5 (25 votes cast)

Pray for the Wildcats (1974)

Director: Robert Michael Lewis
Starring: Andy Griffith, William Shatner, Angie Dickinson, Robert Reed, Marjoe Gortner, Lorraine Gary

Shatner MANIA continues at the HEX!....Like it ever ended...or started for that matter. Shatner Mania has just always 'been' for us - it has existed since before the end of time! Not only is this his seriously best performance post Star Trek....this movie is a really mind blowing powerhouse of a made for TV flick. Shatner, Robert Reed and Starcrash hero Marjoe Gortner work at a high level ad agency. Shatner's job and life are melting down in a big way at light speed...affairs, debt, divorce, unemployment... and its crazy palpable just under the surface...a walking, ticking time-bomb. Enter Sam Farragut - played to a 'T' by Andy Griffith - the creepy rich industrialist client with a phony good ole' boy affectation. A pampered sociopath who gets off on making others jump through hoops. Farrgut insists they all go on a week-long motorcycle bonding journey into Mexico if they are to get his account....and we will leave it the rest of it for you to discover. Lets just say you have never witnessed Griffith this unhinged or Shatner this focused. Angie Dickinson also puts in a great appearance as the adulterous voice of reason...The Cosmic Hex refuses to speculate on the level of purpose in putting the protagonists in shirts that strangely resembled those of a certain 60s science fiction show or why Robert Reed was given the red shirt.

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Cleopatra
February 21st, 2008

Thanks for this hard to find one. The comments of the movies are simply great, very funny indeed. Cheers!
localb
March 31st, 2008

This ABC Movie of the Week from 1974 is excellent! Wicked solo guitar soundtrack! Andy as a badass! The rest is perfectly cast, Marjoe the Narcissist, Shatner the unlikely hero in crisis, And Robert Reed as the rationalizer...dang. When Griffith says "Hippie" I felt it so deeply. I was moved, man. Moved.

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