The read
It runs a compact 1h 30m.
Synopsis
In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job and hops in their car--and turns out to be more trouble than they thought--drag-race a gang of town punks who lose to to them and then accuse them of cheating, and come up against a local cop who is obsessed with putting these two "juvenile delinquents" in jail.
Ratings
IMDb5.6/10
24 audience votes
Key crew
- Richard ComptonDirector
- Robert O. RaglandOriginal Music Composer
- Richard ComptonWriter
Cast
- Nick NolteBo Hollinger
- Don JohnsonHarley McKay
- Robin MattsonJunell
- Robert ViharoSergeant Bob Wittaker
- Matt GreenePete
- Devon EricsonBetty
- Philip CrewsLarry
- Walt GuthrieBig Man in Coffee Shop
- Mary Ann HearnPat
- Sam KilmanCook
- Bill MosesSheriff Jackson
- Pat O'ConnorOfficer Harris
Stills
Themes
waitresschasesequelredneckcar accidenton the road1950schevymanhuntdrag race