a5c7b9f00b Stock car racer Tommy Callahan is forced to join Pete Madsen&#39;s thrill circus after his blackouts cause a fatal accident that gets him thrown off the circuit. He shows Pete&#39;s daughter Francie and her boyfriend Eddie Sands everything he knows about driving. Eddie takes up with Tommy&#39;s girl Annie Blaine after winning the first time out. They become fierce rivals by the next race, during which Tommy remembers driving over his brother with a go-kart and Eddie hits the wall. Considering this film contains several Nascar real races you may think a priori it is an enterrtaining movie - at least for a car race fan. But no: it is one of the most boring, dull and badly made car race films I have ever watched. Even Elvis&#39; Spinout was much better, more enterrtaining and did include much better songs. Funicello&#39;s only song is bad and at any point interest takes off. Car races should had made it but neither they do it: they are announced, prepared and… suddenly they have already began without noticing; then a few boring laps and…suddenly race is over (you only notice it because you hear Race is over!) without any emotion, no thrilling no nothing. All an all a really boring film not only because of the performances but mainly because of the terrible edition: did best cuts end on the montage room floor? We will never know but I am afraid they did not. Sure there were parts of this movie - almost all of it, the more I think of it, that made you laugh at it and not with it. The stock stock-car scenes from<br/><br/>Daytona and Darlington were real. The acting was bad and the plot was<br/><br/>sophomoric. If Fabian was really having those blackouts all of the time, then he should have been locked up for continuing to drive while having them. But maybe I&#39;m putting too much thought into this. As someone who has covered NASCAR for newspapers, the off-the-track plot stuff was more than lame. Annette did a good job; I got a kick out of the announcer; and Diane McBain is always easy on the eyes, even if she doesn&#39;t take it easy on the eye shadow.
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