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If you’ve seen a Quentin Tarantino film, you recognize he has an encyclopedic data of cinema from Golden Age to grindhouse. He at all times sprinkles little tributes to the films that impressed him all through his tales, and in “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,” you’ll be able to see a trailer for one of many traditional grindhouse movies of that period.
Midway by means of the movie, Sharon Tate, performed by Margot Robbie, decides on a whim to see herself on the massive display screen within the Bruin Theatre in Westwood. Playing on the cinema is “The Wrecking Crew,” the comedy she starred in alongside Dean Martin. In it, she performs Freya Carlson, the seemingly klutzy associate of Dean Martin’s undercover agent character Matt Helm. As we see in a flashback in “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,” Tate was skilled by Bruce Lee for the martial arts scenes within the film.
But as Tate goes to her seat within the theater, check out the trailer being proven on the display screen. It is for the bike thriller “C.C. and Company,” which starred legendary New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath. Tarantino set his movie in 1969, which was the most important yr of Namath’s life. He would change into MVP of Super Bowl III after guaranteeing a victory over the favored Baltimore Colts, catapulting him to stardom and to an appearing profession after soccer.
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One of these movies was “C.C. and Company,” which starred Namath as a biker who falls in with a gang, solely to conflict with that gang after he falls in love with a style journalist performed by Ann-Margaret. Perhaps it was a bit of early for such a trailer to be proven to the Westwood moviegoers in February 1969, because the movie was launched in October 1970 to poor opinions.
Perhaps “C.C. and Company” would have light into an obscure footnote in Namath’s life…had been it not for Tarantino. Not solely did he included the movie in “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood,” however he has additionally screened it on the repertory theater he owns in West L.A., the New Beverly Cinema. Namath’s biker movies had been additionally the inspiration for “Hell Ride,” a small-budget outlaw movie Tarantino produced in 2008. The movie stars and is directed by Larry Bishop, who performs a vengeful biker seeking to take out the gang that killed his girlfriend.
Check out the trailer for “C.C. and Company” within the clip under, and catch “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” in theaters now.
