HAM: A Musical Memoir (2020)
Based on Tony Award nominee and multi-platinum recording artist Sam Harris’s critically acclaimed book, Ham: Slices of a Life, this is an original stage production in which Harris himself plays twelve different characters and shares the stage with only his accompanist Todd Schroeder. The stage version was developed and directed by Tony and Emmy-Award winning […]
Roadracers (1959)
An American-International Pictures release along with Daddy-O, Roadracers is all about Rob Wilson (Joel Lawrence, who mostly worked in TV), who has a racing accident that causes his father to disown him to the point that his rich pop sponsors a rival racer, which doesn’t seem like good parenting at all to me. Liz Renay was originally […]
Freedom (1982)
Ron, who is struggling to find a stable job after being fired from his mechanics gig, cannot afford to buy the Porsche 911 of his wild dreams. Then his dream cars appears . . . and it’s owned by Annie, an old high school girlfriend. They make a date to catch up, but Ron learned […]
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974)
Man, this movie really has it all. You’ve got an angry Peter Fonda, a transfixing Susan George and a driven Vic Morrow, all racing across America. It’s really a great time, a tense chase film that never lets up and then crushes you at the end. Fonda plays a NASCAR hopeful named Larry Rayder who […]
Shaker Run (1985)
Will you look at that one-sheet. That’s not too blatant of a Smokey and the Bandit rip off, is it? Or is it Smokey and the Judge. Or Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws? Or Smokey Bites the Dust? To be honest, this movie is really dumb. Fun. But dumb, in a Lee Majors The […]
Supervan (1977)
This is a vansploitation movie. Yes, that’s really a genre and there are several films in it, of which I can name Blue Summer, The Van (obviously), Best Friends, C.B. Hustlers (which has Uschi Digard in it), Mag Wheels, Van Nuys Blvd. and I guess you could almost count On the Air Live with Captain Midnight. There’s a great article on […]
The Racers (1955)
Henry Hathaway is usually known for directing westerns, but here he is making a film all about car racing in Europe, based on the book The Racer, which was the story of Rudolf Caracciola, who is called Gino Borgesa here and played by Kirk Douglas. He meets his girl in the way so many have […]
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