That's how I felt about a early 1950's James Stewart airplane movie called "No highway in the sky", seeing it as a child on TV in the '60's I thought it was good. Fast forward to modern day I saw it on cable and it was beyond bad. The film had a good message about airplane safety but the way it was written was simply bad, and even Stewart who I like, could not help it.
When I first saw Dana Andrews getting 'punked' in that Dodge by those cheese ***es in the desert 'hot rods' I was waiting for 'Dana the B-17 driver', or 'Dana the F6F Hellcat pilot', any minute turning the .30 and .50 cal machine guns on 'em... But he didn't. He just played the "What kind of Animals" card... Pretty cool 'ruse' at the end, though...bullies drove too deep into their own trip, ended up sniveling like 'progressives'...
For next month, since it's October, can you review Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow for us? Apparently it's the follow up feature to HOT ROD GANG (so sayeth Wikipedia).
Didn't see it mentioned. The cop in Hot Rods to Hell is the guy in Bullitt riding shotgun in the Charger.
Thought I'd seen him before when he pumped the 'witness' full of buckshot in that freeway-hugging hotel room in S.F.! Thanks for putting that together...**** like that bugs me for years at a time!
Tires squealing in the sand? How does that happen? LOL.... I was 15 in 1967 but my parents wouldn't let me see this movie because it had the word "Hell" in the ***le. No BS....
I never noticed it either but then again I watched it years on a 15" Black & White TV. Maybe I should try again on my high def monitor.....LOL Well, after watching The Chase Scene I noticed it. The '57 Chevy was smokin' too. What he should have done was P.I.T. out the Chevy, then slammed on the brakes and let the 'Vette rearend him. When the rest of the fools showed up and witnessed the carnage the would have realized he was no one to mess with.
His name is Paul Genge. Here's his (rather short) bio from Wikipedia.... Paul Morgan Genge (29 March 1913 Brooklyn, New York – 13 May 1988 Los Angeles, California) was an actor from the 1950s through to the late 1970s.[1] Genge is most famous for his role as the shotgun toting gray-haired mob hitman 'Mike' in the 1968 film Bullitt (his character is the p***enger in the black 1968 Dodge Charger during the famous car chase that goes out of control and causes his death and the driver's). Other film roles include that of a payoff man in The Outfit (1973), a California Highway Patrol officer in 1967's Hot Rods to Hell, Whitey, a communist suspect in The FBI Story (1959) and Lieutenant Hagerman in North By Northwest (1959). He also appeared on many television shows from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.[2] He played in four episodes of Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burr; in three of the roles he played a law-enforcement officer, such as San Francisco Inspector Wade in "The Case of the Poison Pen Pal" in 1962. In his final appearance in 1966 he played Bud in "The Case of the Sausalito Sunrise." Ironically, in that episode he and his comrade, in attempting to hijack goods from a truck driven by Paul Drake, are killed when their car loses control and rolls down the cliff, somewhat similar to the chase scene in Bullitt. Here's another odd bit of trivia. The movie was originally made for TV but they decided that it was "too intense for television" so they released it in theaters, including drive-ins. Here's the whole story on the movie, again from Wikipedia.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Rods_to_Hell
I like the movie. Charlie, the gas owner, also played Asa in the Andy Griffith Show as the night guard at Weavers Dept. store; he also appeared as Dr.Roberts in Andy. Overacting but kind of fun to watch. The hotel owner was also in a ton of stuff including Andy, Bewitched, TZ, No Time for Sergeant’s etc etc.
I was around 12 and saw it on our grainy black & white TV. I thought it was cool then. I'd watch it again. Some good old era movies are on TCM, worth checking now and then. They have Thunder Road on demand now.
If you have TUBI (free streaming service) they have Hot Rods to Hell on it, I watched it last night. Also Hot Rod Girl, Chopperz and a bunch of others.
I saw that movie on TV when I was about 9 or so. I thought it was the coolest movie ever! The hot rods that terrorized the family forever shaped my impression of what a hotrod should look like. Now I have the VHS and some original movie posters.
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