Peter Fonda’s Idaho Transfer
“A useless piece of drivel about an obnoxious group of teens who get ‘teleported’ into the future, where they are expected to set up a new civilization in Idaho.”
—Motion Picture Guide, author and edition unknown, found on the apparently abandoned Idaho Film Commission website
he late Peter Fonda—actor, celebrity, experimental filmmaker, activist, head—never actually did enjoy an easy ride, career-wise. Onscreen and behind (1971), a Western co-starring his close friend Warren Oates, has seen its reputation resurrected, as reflected by Arrow’s recent extras-laden Bluray. But leaving aside for the moment any further discussion of his third and final feature as director (1979), a return to the oater starring 13-year-old Brooke Shields in her (1978) follow-up, a single question remains: Wherefore art thou, (1973)?
