Riding with Death (1976)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

best movie i've ever seen.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Please, oh please, somebody help me...every time i watch this amazingly amusing and cheesy bit of dreck on MST3K, I can't help myself. I know I shouldn't bother, I know that the plot makes no sense and that everybody involved was probably on drugs...but every time i still find myself obsessing over that second half of the...err....movie! The first part is bad, granted; but at least the whole Triplodene(or however you spell that) does make a certain amount of sense. But when they string that second episode together with it, that part always leaves me scratching my head. WHY does the Baxter Electronics guy want to blow up his own race car? Does the oh-so-elusive Mr. Denby specialize in sabotage-for-hire? They never made that clear, or what Mr. Baxter was getting out of it. A big paycheck from foreign countries, perhaps, if he used the deuterium to sabotage our military craft? It makes me tremble when I think about how little that MST3K cut out - and that the ten minutes or so probably doesn't explain anything any better. Also, why would mechanics need to sneak the deuterium into the car in East Berlin when Mr. Baxter could have hired some unsavory mechanics to do it, since it was his car. Was this whole thing supposed to be a demonstration to representatives of foreign powers? Again, they never made that clear. That second part just gets me every time, because by golly no matter how many times i watch it I'm baffled. What is it all about?! And why must I obsess about it rather than just letting it go as two bad episodes of a terrible seventies t.v. series made into an awful film? I just don't get it!

(spoilers) That was my favorite scene of this groovy 70's cheese fest, when Murphy's doing the stupid flashback to when the accident(He wet 'em!)first made him invisible. He's wearing bandages around his head, and there's no holes in the bandages for him to breathe through! Not that Murphy really needed any oxygen to his brain to make this lame movie. He and the really annoying cracker Jim Stafford had to be two of the stupidest people I've ever seen. How could this guy be a secret agent? he doesn't have the brain cells to be a counter worker at McDonald's. Then there's the (she's some gal) oh-so-perky Abbey, and Leonard Driscoll who never stops washing his glasses. Round this out with not one but TWO incomprehensible plots, having to listen to the grating Stafford actually sing several songs and howl like a deranged dog, and two of the lamest villians to ever be put on celluloid, and you have the glory and wonder that is Riding With Death. And remember, Death does not pony up for gas-so you're pretty much on your own when viewing this meatball.

If you really want to "enjoy" this movie, check out the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 version, I think it's from the 8th or 9th season. (Find the MST3K page under the sci-fi channel's website.) It's one of the best episodes of that show; the first half being much funnier than the second half.

Ben Murphy, Mr. Mellow, stars in a TV show that somehow is a movie. I laughed the whole way through although this was a semi-serious movie. The plot was hopeless and the actors were unintentionally funny. Buffalo Bill or whatever his name was, was a sorry excuse for an actor who was Ben Murphy's extremely hickish trucker buddy. If you liked dukes of hazards, you may love this movie, but I would strongly suggest not to watch it. I give it a 2 out of 10