An eclectic group of people take part in a secret, and illegal, cross country road race.
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Charles Bail (as Chuck Bail)
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| 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 | ... | Lapchik the Mad Hungarian - Kawasaki | |
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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 | |
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Lázaro Pérez | ... | Jose - Rolls Royce (as Lazaro Perez) |
| Nicholas Pryor | ... | Prof. Samuel Graves - Cobra Team | |
| Vaughn Taylor | ... | Andy McAllister - Mercedes Team | |
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Wally Taylor | ... | Avila - Dodge Team |
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A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gumball" whispered by one of the others, they know that it's time for the Gumball Rally: a no-holds barred, secret, winner-take-all rally across the USA. Written by Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
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carsploitation | boyfriend girlfriend relationship | kiss | love interest | competition |Taglines:
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.Genres:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
28 July 1976 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Chewing Gum Rallye See more »Company Credits
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2.35 : 1
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Voice from above: You're an asshole, Roscoe. That's why.
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The character of Lapchick a shout out to silent film star, Charlie Chaplin. When ever he appears on screen, silent movie piano music plays, the character has no dialogue (save the final word in the film), the star who plays him, Harvey Jason, bears a resemblance to Chaplin, and if you scramble the letters in Lapchick, you can almost spell Chaplin. See more »Goofs
The teams leave New York City at 6:00 am and it is light out. However, there is snow on the ground outside the city; there is far too much light for 6:00 am in the winter. See more »Quotes
Roscoe: [looking up at the sky] Why! Why me!Voice from above: You're an asshole, Roscoe. That's why.
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Just seeing these cars when in 1976 they were still "cheap" enough to not simply be garage queens - a Mercedes-Benz 300SL roadster, 427 Cobra, Ferrari Daytona Spyder, E-Type Jag...
This is based loosely on a true race, Brock Yate's original Cannon Ball Run - in which, if I am not mistaken, was in 1971 and like the movie, left Manhattan but ended up in Redondo Beach. Yates and Dan Gurney won in a Ferrari Daytona Coupe at 35:54, and surprisingly a Chevy Van was second some 50 minutes later.
Like the actual race there was some contestants who had a specially rigged van with a huge gas tank that was supposed to take them across the country without need for a fill up - nothing said on bathroom breaks.
If you are looking for a movie with some deep social message this isn't the one but if you like cars (and listening to the wonderful noises of the Cobra and Ferrari) this is the movie...