Film buffs,
I saw "The Racers" last month on cable. A couple of great crashes on Kirk's
part. Todays F1 just dosen't seem to have the same raw danger to it....
Andy
>From: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
>Reply-To: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
>To: Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott <toobmany@bigpond.com>
>CC: spridgets@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Jensen GT
>Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 10:58:30 -0700
>
>Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott wrote:
> >
> > How about the Kirk Douglas film 'Such Men are Dangerous'(??) where he
> > drives an ex Stirling Moss HWM. This car eventually became the
>'Stovebolt
> > Special' when fitted with a 283 Chev V8 after the Alta engine went to
> > lunch.
>
>I know that film (also starring Bella Darvi and Anthony Quinn) under the
>name "The Racers." Well worth watching -- *stupid* movie, *great*
>cars. They reprise the famous Varzi-Nuvolari duel in the Mille Miglia
>(was it 1930? books are at home, I'm not), where Nuvolari turned his
>lights off and chased down his arch-rival, who had been taking it easy
>since he hadn't seen a car behind him.
>
>The plot is the usual mishmash of hokey romance and embittered rivalry
>between ex-friends that Hollywood seems to think must be associated with
>any film about racing. But the first race is one for *sports cars*, of
>all things, on the GP circuit at Monte Carlo. It's breathtakingly
>exciting to see a Healey Hundred oversteering out of the Tobacconist's
>Corner, not to mention Kirk Douglas' Alta-HWM previously mentioned
>blasting down Casino.
>
>--Scott
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