Citizens Band

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CB radios provide a human connection between the lives of a collection of varied characters in Jonathan Demme's energizing film that exploits the CB radio craze of the mid-'70s. Chrome Angel (Charles Napier) is a truck driver who has an accident and is laid up recuperating at the home of Hot Coffee (Alix Elias). A road-roaring philanderer, Chrome Angel is a bigamist with a wife, Dallas (Ann Wedgeworth), in Dallas and another wife, Portland (Marcia Rodd), in Portland. The two women converge in a small town where Spider (Paul Le Mat) and his embittered brother Blood (Bruce McGill) are both trying to date Electra (Candy Clark). The characters' CB monikers weave the characters into the same CB waveband, exemplifying the interconnectedness of an American subculture.

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Cast

Paul Le Mat
as Spider
Candy Clark
as Electra
Ann Wedgeworth
as Dallas Angel
Bruce McGill
as Blood
Marcia Rodd
as Portland Angel/Connie
Charles Napier
as Chrome Angel/Harold
Alix Elias
as Hot Coffee/Debbie
Roberts Blossom
as Papa Thermadyne/Father
Richard Bright
as Smilin'Jack/Garage Owner
Ed Begley Jr.
as Priest
Michael Rothman
as Cochise
Michael Mahler
as Hustler
Harry Northrup
as Red Baron
Will Seltzer
as Warlock
Gary Goetzman
as RV Salesman
Arthur French
as Tony
Robert Reece
as Les
Arthur Godfrey
as Himself
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