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    Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975)

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    Alan Arkin plays Gunny Rafferty, a former marine now working as a driving instructor.

    To say his life is limited and lonely would be a great understatement. He has a mind-numbing job, lives in perhaps the second-worst apartment in film history (just behind Ratzo’s place in Midnight Cowboy) and drives the worst car in movie history.

    One day – while consuming his usual sandwich and scotch on his lunch break in the park – he encounters spacey and sensual would-be country singer Mac (Sally Kellerman), who is accompanied by wised-up tough-talking teen runaway Frisbee (MacKenzie Phillips).

    The two women force Rafferty to take them to New Orleans at gunpoint.

    But Rafferty isn’t protesting. He doesn’t care about staying in or getting back to California.

    After a little while, the two women see that he’s not going to run off and they all go exploring together, including a side trip to Vegas. It can’t last but the journey is fun.

    Rafferty
    Alan Arkin
    McKinley ‘Mac’ Beachwood
    Sally Kellerman
    Rita ‘Frisbee’ Sykes
    Mackenzie Phillips
    Vinnie
    Alex Rocco
    Alan Boone
    Charles Martin Smith
    Billy Winston
    Harry Dean Stanton
    John Beachwood
    John McLiam
    Reverend Culpepper
    Richard Hale
    Louis Prima
    Himself
    Sam Butera
    Himself
    Smitty
    Arch Johnson
    Young Woman
    Barbara Colby
    Incessant Talker
    David Proval
    Gas Station Attendant
    George O’Hanlon Jr

    Director
    Dick Richards

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