CHARMS (1973) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Leo Garen
Keith Carradine, Cristina Raines, Scott Glenn
Hilarie Thompson, Robert Walker Jr., Mike Combs,
Gary Busey, Doria Cook, Dan Haggerty, Tom Jones
Just after the end of the First World War, a ragtag gang of bikers roll into Bingo, a town somewhere out on the plains of Nebraska. They stick around just long enough to raise a little hell and then high-tail it out of town, chased by an equally ragtag, motorized posse. They elude the posse by hiding out on a farm run by two half-Indian sisters, not knowing that one of the women has an ancestral connection and magical powers. A hippie hillbilly motorcycle comedy western with a touch of horror, broadly acted by everybody except Cristina Raines as the severe older sister (billed in the credits as Tina Herazo) and Robert Walker Jr. as a mute member of the gang. A lot of it's really hokey, but there's something interesting going on here, too. Maybe the loco weed had something to do with that. It's an odd one, for sure. Shot in 1971 and released two years later. Alternate title: "Hex".
