Meet Mitchell's Crazy Canuck Cousin!      

"Rowsdower... Zap Rowsdower." Call him Boondocks Bond or the Solo of the 
Silos. Just don't call this guy late for supper.

What Mitchell is to The City, slick urban wiseguys, big shiny gas-guzzlers 
and beer, Rowsdower is to Shackville, kooky rural cultists, rusty clunking 
pickups and, well...beer. 

One needs only  watch MST3K's Experiment #910, The Final Sacrifice, to 
nearly recapture the awe and wonder of  that very first, very special, 
Mitchell encounter. 

Not to be confused with the charming Children of the Corn II: The Final 
Sacrifice, this promisingly titled film's original release name was Quest 
for the Lost City but for the sake of accuracy should have instead been 
Stumbling Around and Eventually Tripping Over the Lost City.

Imagine, if you will, Ken Russell's The Devils randomly spliced with that 
Dukes of Hazzard episode where the boys got in a whole mess o' trouble 
down at Cooter's place. Now take out the scenes with the hunchbacked nun 
and Catherine Bach in cut-offs. This then would be a fair facsimile of The 
Final Sacrifice, a would-be supernatural action-thriller oddly devoid of 
thrills and whose action consists mainly of shots of the only overweight 
guy to be chased uphill in a single movie more than Ned Beatty in 
Deliverance.

While lacking his metropolitan counterpart's savvy and cat-like grace, 
Rowsdower nevertheless manages to carve his own niche in actiondom with 
all the cultured subtlety of  Ralph Kramden playing Grizzly Adams in a 
Raccoon Lodge stage production. 

Sadly though, unlike the great Baker whose galaxy of enduring roles 
includes Mongo, Mitchell, Eischied, T.J. Geronimo, Joe McCarthy and that 
guy in the last couple-three James Bond movies to name but a few, actor 
Christian Malcolm's legacy is forever that one brief, brilliant tour de 
force that made Rowsdower the household name it is today. 

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  Copyright © 2008 Alistair White 
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