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. (http://members.aol.com/cbesco/512.html#rowz)
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