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An undercover cop races cars while he tries to catch crooks. High Gear: 1933 Drama After a friend's death, an auto racer takes a job driving a taxi. Roaring Roads: 1935 Comedy A rich boy craving excitement tries racing and encounters gangsters. Death Drives Through: 1935 Drama British driver falls in love with woman whose father disapproves ...
The Last Chase is a 1981 Canadian-American dystopian science fiction film directed by Martyn Burke who was also the producer on the film, produced for Argosy Films. The film stars Lee Majors, Chris Makepeace and Burgess Meredith in a futuristic scenario about a former racing driver who reassembles his old Porsche car and drives to California in a world where cars and motor vehicles of all ...
The car's engine is realistically described in the film, particularly Chrysler's use of heat regenerators, which cooled the car's exhaust to a temperature even lower than that of a traditional piston engine. [citation needed] The Chrysler Turbine Car is mentioned in the opening credits of the film. Chrysler participated in the film's ...
Mechanic and race car driver Eddie Shannon is chosen by two bank robbers to help them with a heist. The heist requires someone with his ability to "soup up" engines and drive at high speeds over treacherous roads, to avoid capture after they pull the job.
In 2021, the old domain name used by the campaign (piracyisacrime.com) was purchased and redirected to a YouTube upload of the parody, possibly inspired by a Reddit discussion. [14] An advertisement for the 2008 film Futurama: Bender's Game parodied the campaign by having Bender repeatedly interrupt the narrator to say he would do the crimes ...
The film premiere took place at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, [12] with several CART competitors driving and demonstrating pit stops in modified Champ Cars down Hollywood Blvd. According to director Harlin's commentary, his first cut was four hours long. Only 51 minutes of deleted footage was included as special feature on DVD.
Drive Hard (originally titled Hard Drive) is a 2014 Australian direct-to-video action buddy film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and written by Chad Law, Evan Law, and Smith.
'Convoy' is a bad joke that backfires on the director. He has neither the guts to play the movie straight as melodrama nor the sense of humor to turn it into a kind of 'Smokey and the Bandit' comedy. The movie is a big, costly, phony exercise in myth-making, machismo, romance-of-the-open-road nonsense and incredible self-indulgence."