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28 July 1976 (USA) moreTagline:
It's a hilarious coast-to-coast, 180 mile-an-hour, go-for-broke, outrageous road race with the world's most expensive cars. And it's all just for glory and a gumball machine.Plot:
A disparate group of drivers take part in a secret and illegal cross country road race. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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What's Behind Me... more (30 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Michael Sarrazin | ... | Michael Bannon - Cobra Team | |
| Norman Burton | ... | Lieutenant Roscoe (as Normann Burton) | |
| Gary Busey | ... | Gibson - Camaro Team | |
| John Durren | ... | Ace Preston / Mr. Guts - Camaro Team | |
| Susan Flannery | ... | Alice - Porsche Team | |
| Harvey Jason | ... | Lapchick the Mad Hungarian - Kawasaki | |
| Steven Keats | ... | Kandinsky - Dodge Team | |
| Tim McIntire | ... | Steve 'Smitty' Smith - Ferrari Team | |
| Joanne Nail | ... | Jane - Porsche Team | |
| J. Pat O'Malley | ... | Barney Donahue - Mercedes Team | |
| Tricia O'Neil | ... | Angie - Rolls Royce | |
| Lázaro Pérez | ... | Jose - Rolls Royce | |
| Nicholas Pryor | ... | Prof. Samuel Graves - Cobra Team | |
| Vaughn Taylor | ... | Andy McAllister - Mercedes Team | |
| Wally Taylor | ... | Avila - Dodge Team |
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Some of the featured cars: - 1966 Ford Shelby Cobra 427 "Side Oiler" (Cobra Team) - 1974 Ferrari Daytona (Ferrari Team) - 1974 Porsche 911 Targa (Porche Team) - 1971 Dodge Polara 440 police car (Dodge Team) - 1970 1/2 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 (Camaro Team) moreGoofs:
Continuity: When Franco is at the second gas station he comes across the scent of a woman, and is not wearing his glasses, but in the next shot he has his glasses on. moreQuotes:
Gibson - Camaro Team: [their Camaro is running hot] Jeez, can't we turn off the heater?Ace Preston: Either the engine gets hot, or we get hot!
Gibson - Camaro Team: Well, I'm about to have a stroke!
Ace Preston: A stroke? I should be so lucky!
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Chuck Bail, a stunt performer on Steve McQueen's "Have Gun, Will Travel", contributed some memorable bits of dialogue to this script. I've lost count of the number of times I and others have repeated Raul Julia's judgment on the rear view mirror, "What's behind me is not important". Inevitably, any spectacularly ugly car we come across "looks like a jukebox". And on and on.
Julia, whose participation in this film was not generally cited in obituaries, and Gary Busey were performers whose careers took off afterward.
The remainder of the cast consists of moderately well known players, some still to be seen on soaps and occasionally in prime time guest shots. Normann Burton as a New York cop on the verge of a nervous breakdown and Harvey Jason as a bizarro motorcyclist stand out.
As is usually the case in movies about automobile racing, lots of expert stuntwork is on display here. Scenes of pure speed, though, do not get in the way of funnymen being funny.