As a Clint Eastwood fan, the movie was very enjoyable but as a piece of cinematic art, maybe not so much. There is plenty of action, especially physical confrontations as well as a slow development of physical attraction and finally the "de new mount", as it were. For gun nuts like myself, a former Marine Vietnam vet, can you expect any more thrills than all the shooting up in the hills? As a high school friend of J C Crowley, who provided a song "Beneath the Texas Moon" for this movie, I listened to the music closely and found everything suitable and appropriate. (He co-wrote "Baby Come Back") So, this film suffered terrible critic reviews and failed at the box office......and was probably the "worst" of Clint's films. But I would like to point out a scene at the end of the movie that just might have garnered far more viewers had the infant being held by Peters going down the highway in the Pink Cadillac suffered a real injury. First of all, she was holding the baby in her arms in the front seat. Now that was probably legal back then but nevertheless dangerous then. However, my real concern was the fact that the baby was holding a car key on a ring in its hand and kept on putting in and out of its mouth. As a parent (and a physician) I was focused on the insanity of even allowing such a thing to happen, especially while making a movie. Had a disaster occurred, I am sure this movie would not have been so obscure. As fate goes, I think Clint and all the producers were fortunate to just write this one off as a nondescript failure that offers basic entertainment. As far as my 8 out of 10 rating, that is solely for how much it entertained me, not its artistic merits.
Review of Pink Cadillac
Pink Cadillac
(1989)
Baby contributes to viewer concern not meant to be part of the script
31 December 2021