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| Review by Generoso Fierro |
Executive Produced by Molly Thompson, George Hamilton
Produced by Johnny Knoxville, Jeff Tremaine, Mat Hoffman
Written by Daniel Junge, Davis Coombe
Directed by Daniel Junge
Featuring Johnny Knoxville, Mat Hoffman, George Hamilton,
Shelly Saltman, Linda Bork Knievel, Robbie Knievel,
Krystal Knievel, Frank Gifford, Tony Hawk, Travis Pastrana
Somewhere lurking in your toy collection, if you were a little boy or girl growing up in the early 1970s, is an Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle that you cherished more than almost any toy you possessed.
Of course, if you were lucky enough like my friend Paul to have an Evel Knievel Scramble Van or the Evel Knievel Canyon Sky Cycle, you may have cherished those things more.
In fact, there were countless toys and accessories for the Evel Knievel fan out there in the 1970s because it seemed that Evel himself was everywhere, or as one interviewee states in
Being Evel, the new bio documentary by Daniel Junge, “Evel was the 1970s.”
For those of you too young to remember, Evel Knievel (born Robert Craig Knievel in Butte, Montana), was a flamboyant motorcycle daredevil operating in the 1970s who completely captured the imagination of a United States that was looking for a hero after the turbulence of the 1960s and the ongoing Vietnam War.
Whenever Evel would attempt a stunt on television, either on ABC's popular program,
The Wide World Of Sports, or a closed circuit event, the country would be glued to the screen to see if he would still be alive at the other end of the ramp or at least to find out how many bones he broke doing the stunt.
Knievel was also the talk show circuit, appearing on Carson, Dinah, and Cavett; you name it, someone every night had to talk with Evel about the cult of Evel.
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