The gritty 1978 movie, starring a straight-talking Richard Pryor and a brawny Harvey Keitel, was shot in the Ford River Rouge works in Detroit and is from a time before the robots took over, when men still made cars out of sweat and sparks.
That was the trailer for the first one, but this bottom video is the sequel, the whole movie
so far I've watched 25 minutes, and it's the guy who gets out of prison for racing, and gets drawn back into another race because of his daughter storyline.
Used-car salesman Kurt Russell helps out the daughter of his recently deceased boss keep her inherited used car lot, resulting in an all-out war with her uncle's used car lot across the road.
If they can keep the uncle from getting both lots, she'll be ok, as a new freeway off ramp will soon make her property and lot the best located in the whole state
Useless trivia: Two cars from Grease are shown as junkers to be used for driver's ed, in the below photo
this next clip ain't safe to listen to at work, or around the kids. Just FYI
but the above one is PG, it's the original trailer for the movie
Only a single copy of this film exists in all of Italy, and it was restored for a viewing by a world that never even knew it existed.
The film was partially shot in Taranto (one reason to "bring it" at home), and revived by Alessandro Marotto and Silva Fedrigo, who own a film distribution company (Rodaggio Distribution) founded with the objective to recover, promote and distribute films about the world of two wheels, with an eye on the productions independent and unobtainable movie.
The spectacular world of motorcycle racing, including the famous Milano-Taranto, is the backdrop to the classic love triangle between Charles, his wife and his lover.
Technical advice was headed by Bruno Francisci, three-time winner of its Milan-Taranto, twice riding Guzzi and Gilera 4 cylinders.
Looking at it now sixty years later, the issues dealt with are very bold for its time; in addition to adultery it comes to race strategy and "opportunistic" team agreements.
Behind the camera was Romolo Marcellini, director, who a few years later filmed the documentary The Grand Olympics (Oscar nominee for Best Documentary in 1962). The idea of projecting the work of Marcellini in the province of Taranto ideally closes a circle historical, because in 1956 he ran the last Milano-Taranto
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist.
Seven years after a daring bank robbery involving an anti-tank gun used to blow open a vault, the robbery team temporarily puts aside their mutual suspicions to repeat the crime after they are unable to find the loot from the original heist, hidden behind a school chalkboard. The hardened artilleryman and his flippant, irresponsible young sidekick are the two wild cards in the deck of jokers
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot... if you want to watch a Jeff Bridges Clint Eastwood buddy movie with George Kennedy and Geoffrey Lewis... and those two died in the last two years, and who knows how much longer Clint or Jeff have... they are OLD (Clint 87, Jeff 68)
In this classic war actioner based on a true story, Cliff Robertson plays Roy Grant, a combat-weary pilot whose R.A.F. squadron is ordered to destroy a Nazi rocket fuel plant tucked deep inside a Norwegian fjord. The bomb run is a logistical nightmare because the planes must run a gauntlet of anti-aircraft batteries before reaching their target.
The film's scenario and characters were drawn from a novel by Frederick E. Smith published in 1956, which itself drew on several real Royal Air Force operations.
The original idea was to build a wooden bomber with no guns, but they said build a prototype to shut them up. Of course the prototype outran the Spitfire!
When the Norwegian resistance leader, Royal Norwegian Navy Lieutenant Erik Bergman, travels to Great Britain to report the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's No. 633 Squadron is assigned to destroy it. The squadron is led by Wing Commander Roy Grant, an ex-Eagle Squadron pilot (an American serving in the RAF before the US entered the war).
The plant is in a seemingly impregnable location beneath an overhanging cliff at the end of a long, narrow fjord lined with numerous anti-aircraft guns. The only way to destroy the plant is by collapsing the cliff on top of it, a job for 633 Squadron's fast and manoeuvrable de Havilland Mosquitos. The squadron trains in Scotland, where there are narrow glens similar to the fjord.
They used real Mosquitos, and by the way Cliff Robertson owned a Spitfire!
