{"id":2261,"date":"2010-10-21T13:03:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T13:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:03:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T13:03:18","slug":"the-8-wheel-beast-contemporary-review-from-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/the-8-wheel-beast-contemporary-review-from-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"The 8 Wheel Beast &#8211; Contemporary review from The Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once having registered that Sergio Corbucci&#8217;s <strong>The 8 Wheel Beast<\/strong> is a dreaded juggernaut, and that what we&#8217;re in for is a story of Italian long distance lorry drivers and not a horror movie, one settles back to travel hopefully and learn something about life on the roas between Milan and Warsaw.\u00a0 What we get is a flashy consignment of traditional tough-guy cliches delivered by a disenchanted, middle-aged Northerner and his loudmouthed young Sicilian co-driver.\u00a0 They drink and fight and fornicate their was across Europe and then buy their own vehicle as a way of settling down.\u00a0 As independent operators they come into conflict with their former comrades (whom they betray in a strike), dishonest merchants and the mafia, and finally end up saving their truck in a cliff hanging scene that might have earned the title &#8216;The Dole Queue of Fear&#8217;.\u00a0 The gap between Corbucci&#8217;s meretricious movie and<strong> Bicycle Thieves <\/strong>is more than six wheels and 25 years.<\/p>\n<p><em>Philip French, The Times, Friday, Jan 16, 1976<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[note: this is Corbucci&#8217;s <strong>Il bestione <\/strong>(or <strong>The S Wheeled Beast <\/strong>as IMDB would have it!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once having registered that Sergio Corbucci&#8217;s The 8 Wheel Beast is a dreaded juggernaut, and that what we&#8217;re in for is a story of Italian long distance lorry drivers and not a horror movie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[324],"tags":[618],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}