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A feature length cinema documentary on how THE FARMER (1977) became the most-requested cult film of the new millennium, and it's a crazy tale that involves an actor incarcerated for manslaughter, serious on-set injuries, banana-man costumes- as well as surprising links to Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese. The film also broadens its scope to explore the overlooked, eclectic and often ultra-violent sub-genre THE FARMER belongs to - The Returning Veteran film. A film type that hit its stride in the 1970's with hard hitting character studies such as WELCOME HOME, SOLDIERS BOYS (1971), THE NO MERCY MAN (1973) and ROLLING THUNDER (1977).
Transcript
00:20I said, The Farmer, what is this movie about?
00:22I've never heard of this one at all.
00:23This wasn't a movie anyone had seen since its theatrical release.
00:27How come The Farmer hasn't been released yet?
00:29They've released everything else.
00:30We want The Farmer.
00:32Give us The Farmer.
00:33I was so obsessed with seeing The Farmer that I had actually saved up $2,500.
00:38And I offered that as a bounty.
00:40Spread the word out on the collector's market.
00:42And I said, I'll give $2,500 to anybody who can provide me with a copy of The Farmer in
00:46any format.
00:47So that's how The Farmer became, in my mind, this sort of holy grail of lost 70s action films.
00:54The story of The Farmer, it doesn't stop.
00:59There was nobody there watching safety.
01:02They set off this piston, and it literally yanked you off your feet.
01:06I remember it quite well.
01:09Because it hurt.
01:11He said, Oh, we've got this great guy who's going to be the assassin.
01:15I said, Terrific.
01:16Wonderful.
01:16And he said, Yeah.
01:18You know, he killed someone.
01:21He played.
01:25In the 1970s, there was a lot of that, uh, returning veteran movie.
01:29Returning veteran.
01:30The veterans returning home, getting into trouble films.
01:33Vetsploitation movie.
01:35Welcome home, soldier boys.
01:36First blood.
01:37Taxi driver.
01:38Rolling thunder.
01:39They were like surrogate war films for the decade of the 1970s.
01:42These exploitation movies were some of the first to address Vietnam.
01:46I realized they didn't make war films in the 1970s.
01:49They made these films instead.
02:07I realized they didn't make war films for the decade of the decade of the decade of the decade of
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02:45What the hell is that?
02:50What the hell is that?
03:20What the hell is that?
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