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4.9/10   42 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Greydon Clark (writer)
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Release Date:
May 1978 (USA) more
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Tagline:
...Dragging The Streets Burning For Action!
Plot:
Story of a group of drag races and the young boy and girl who join them. full summary | add synopsis
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Hey!! Rock'n'Roll!! more (3 total)

Cast

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Mel Ferrer ... The Sheriff
Stephen McNally ... Mr. Lewis
Darby Hinton ... Mark
Neville Brand ... Red
Ralph Meeker ... Mike

Diane Peterson ... Lynn
Karen Fredrik ... Angie
Wm.J. Beaudine ... T.J.
Roger Hampton ... Billy
Brad Rearden ... Billy
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Candy Castillo ... Hi-Rider #3

Al Gomez ... Gimp
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Runtime:
90 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Vic Rivers, stuntman/coordinator, died while performing a stunt. more
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Referenced in Alien Space Avenger (1989) more

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1 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Hey!! Rock'n'Roll!!, 12 June 2005
2/10
Author: anxietyresister from United Kingdom

Yeah man!! This is like, so cool!! We got this gang of kids, yeah, who set up a club for those who like to build up some speed on the road. We challenge each other to super fast races, and the winner gets to keep the stakes in a big-stakes gambling game. Radical!! But in one of these recent contests, the son of a rich guy got killed, and now the father wants revenge. Bogus!! And as our number gets picked off one by one thanks to his totally heinous hired assassins, will we survive long enough to ever hit those most excellent highways ever again? Watch and find out, my brothers!! You're gonna love this movie!! It's got the lot: Dudes burning rubber, chicks taking their tops off, teens getting blind drunk, fat guys dancing, cops being blown up.. and all in the space of 90 slammin' minutes!! This is totally the best film ever!! Rent it today!! It's bodacious, peeps..

*COUTH* *COUGH* oops sorry.. I lost control of my senses there for a minute, I don't know what came over me. Anyway, what I REALLY wanted to say was: this movie sucks the big one. Every performance bar none is dire, the much-hyped race sequences are rendered boring thanks to sloppy camera-work and the soundtrack is so loud and obtrusive it will have the climbing the wall in seconds.

But what really puts the final nail in the coffin is the 'moral' which seems to be: no matter how many people die in this little group, as long as the survivors stick together.. nothing else matters because its all about 'street cred'. What a sad excuse for conformity, and if the government wants to know why there are so many individuals out there who can't think for themselves and can only function as a unit, my answer would be: take a look at this screenplay, and draw your own conclusions. 2/10

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