Back Roads (1981) on Netflix
R19811h 34mAdventureComedyRomance
Amy Post turns twenty-dollar tricks in Mobile, Alabama. Elmore Pratt, an ex-boxer just fired from a car wash, cannot pay. Pratt punches a plainclothes officer, and the two drive off together.
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Plot summary
Elmore Pratt is an ex-boxer, and the car wash that employed him has just let him go. In Mobile, Alabama, he spends a night with Amy Post, who charges twenty dollars a trick, and he has nothing to pay her with. He throws a punch at a plainclothes police officer, and the two of them leave town together, heading for California. Amy and Pratt argue through the miles.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Back Roads (1981)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Stars Field and Jones disliked one another intensely during filming. Director Ritt regretted not being able to make the film work, blaming its failure on both the script and the two stars' inability to get along.
- Back Roads was the first film produced by CBS Theatrical Films, a short-lived film production branch of CBS.
