Director Howard Hawks said of this movie that it was about “three old-fashioned hot love stories about these racers and their girls. They have their own code. They kid about danger. They aren’t tough guys, but they talk awful rough. The picture will have something of a wartime feeling: on Friday night, a girl doesn’t know if a boy will still be alive on Saturday night.”

He worked to find six new actors—Gail Hire, Mariana Hill, Laura Devon, James Ward, John Crawford and James Caan—and also had appearances by Carol Connors, George Takei, Teri Garr, Charlene Holt and Norman Alden.

He later told the Los Angeles Times, “Newcomers are good when you have competent people to hold them up. That’s why I wouldn’t try Red Line 7000 again. It’s always been a habit of mine to put new people with pros. It holds them together, gives them a key to tempo. There was nobody for them to take a cue from in Red Line.”

Pat Kazarian (Norman Alden) has a racing team made up of Mike Marsh (James Caan) and Jim Loomis (Anthony Rogers). Jim dies in a crash, which brings on two new team members, Ned Arp (John Robert Crawford) and Dan McCall (Skip Ward), who may have a girl — Gabrielle Queneau (Marianna Hill) — but is falling for Loomis’ girlfriend, Holly McGregor (Gail Hire).

Ned loses his hand, and Mike tries to kill Dan by running him off the track, but he ends up with Gabrielle. I mean, he’s the winner. Have you seen 1965 Marianna Hill? Or any Marianna Hill?

The Arrow Video Blu-ray of Redline 7000 has extras including audio commentary by Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman, an interview with assistant director Bruce Kessler, visual essays by Howard S. Berger and Kat Ellinger, an image gallery of posters, lobby cards, and stills, a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sam Hadley, a double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sam Hadley and an illustrated collector’s booklet containing new writing by film critic Martyn Conterio. You can get it from MVD.