The Year of the Yahoo!

1971
R
1h 28m

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A country-western singer is recruited to run for the U.S. Senate, and soon clashes with his unscrupulous campaign manager on the tactics to run his political campaign.A country-western singer is recruited to run for the U.S. Senate, and soon clashes with his unscrupulous campaign manager on the tactics to run his political campaign.A country-western singer is recruited to run for the U.S. Senate, and soon clashes with his unscrupulous campaign manager on the tactics to run his political campaign.

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Trivia
According to co-star/assistant director/location manager Ray Sager, most of the film was shot at a small radio station in San Antonio, Texas which was titled K-BOX, which played only country-western music. Needing a location for a TV studio with offices, Sager phoned the manager of the radio station during pre-production while scouting potential filming locations, and since the manager was a huge fan of the star-singer Claude King, the K-BOX manger allowed Herschell Gordon Lewis and the film crew full access to film in and around the radio station.

Quotes
Gov. Baxter: Who is your candidate?
Chet Stoner: Hank Jackson.
Gov. Baxter: Who?
Chet Stoner: Hank Jackson, the singer.
Gov. Baxter: [laughs] Oh, you boys really had me there! For a minute, I thought you really was bluffing! Gentlemen, this isn't California. The people of this state aren't convinced you can just sprinkle a little sand on the floor of the senate, and stomp on your feet instead of talking sense!

Connections
Referenced in Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore (2010)

Soundtracks
Juggernaut
Words and Music by Herschell Gordon Lewis (as Sheldon Seymour)
Performed by Claude King (uncredited)

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1/10

Lead can't act, but neither can the rest

I usually am a great fan of political movies. They can be hysterically funny like The Dark Horse or truly serious like State Of The Union. A really good one came out a few years after The Year Of The Yahoo when Robert Redford did The Candidate. I can think of a whole lot of others as well.

But The Year Of The Yahoo will never be one of them. It's as bad as bad can get. I'm not saying it had potential which sadly it did. But it should have been in the hands of a competent director and cast.

Whoever told country singer Claude King he could act should have gotten the neophyte thespian a good director as well. But King was saddled with an equally untalented and misdirected cast. King plays a country singer more along the lines of Merle Haggard who some sharp politicos including a corrupt governor decide would make a fine US Senator.

That's not as far fetched as you think and after the last election it showed anyone can get elected anything in the right year. Pappy O'Daniel in Texas, Jimmy Davis in Louisiana, and Glen H. Taylor of Idaho all had country entertainer backgrounds and all got elected governor and/or senator from their states. A biographical film of any one of them would be a good project.

But this one, a satirical film that just isn't funny and has no real wit to it.