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Used Cars (1980, U.S.A.)

Studio: Sony/ Columbia/ TriStar

Rating: M

Running time: 113 minutes

Available Format: 16mm, DVD

A hilarious comic salute to those super salesmen whose pitches turn rattling wrecks into dream cars.

Jack Warden is brilliant in his double role as two feuding brothers Luke and Roy L. Fuchs.  They own competing car lots and are trying to drive each other out of business.  Rudy Russo (Kurt Russell) is Luke’s ace salesman.  He’s a charming and conniving cheat and liar who is merely in training for his true ambition – politics. In one of Rudy’s most outrageous advertising ploys, he hires a model to strip on television.  The antics  wind up in a crazy high-speed chase involving 200 vintage cars – a free-for-all demolition derby!