Kurt Russell blows up his Disney image as Rudy Russo, a fast talking, wheeling and dealing used car salesman, that’s willing to say or do anything to sell a car. Screen legend Jack Warden pulls double duty, playing Russell’s easy going boss Luke Fuchs and his nefarious brother Roy L. Fuchs, who runs the more successful car lot across the street, and is willing to commit murder in order to take over his fledgling brother’s dealership – New Deal Used Cars. Used Cars is full of comedy pros the likes of David Landers, Michael McKean, Frank McRae, Joe Flaherty, and the naively charming Deborah Harmon, as Luke’s daughter Barbara Jane. Gerrit Graham strikes quotable comedic gold, as he blows up the screen as the superstitious Marshall Lucky – who has a special way of fighting high prices. “Yes sir, you heard me right,” there are miles of laughs in this American comedy classic when Used Cars pulls up to the New Beverly, driven by the creative genius of Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis, John Milius, and Steven Spielberg.
“Used Cars runs on a contemporary screwball motor with a slapstick chassis.” – Tom Charity, Time Out
“More laughs in it than any film of the summer except Airplane! Used Cars possesses an intelligent, good-natured skepticism that has all but vanished from comedies today” – Vincent Canby, The New York Times
Marc Edward Heuck discusses director Robert Zemeckis on the New Beverly blog.
