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28 July 1976 (USA)
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It's a hilarious coast-to-coast, 180 mile-an-hour, go-for-broke, outrageous road race with the world's most expensive cars. And it's all just for glory and a gumball machine.
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A disparate group of drivers take part in a secret and illegal cross country road race. full summary | add synopsis
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Classic Road Race Comedy
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Michael Sarrazin | ... | Michael Bannon - Cobra Team |
| Norman Burton | ... | Lieutenant Roscoe (as Normann Burton) |
 | Gary Busey | ... | Gibson - Camaro Team |
| John Durren | ... | Ace Preston / Mr. Guts - Camaro Team |
| Susan Flannery | ... | Alice - Porsche Team |
 | Harvey Jason | ... | Lapchick the Mad Hungarian - Kawasaki |
| Steven Keats | ... | Kandinsky - Dodge Team |
| Tim McIntire | ... | Steve 'Smitty' Smith - Ferrari Team |
| Joanne Nail | ... | Jane - Porsche Team |
| J. Pat O'Malley | ... | Barney Donahue - Mercedes Team |
| Tricia O'Neil | ... | Angie - Rolls Royce |
| Lázaro Pérez | ... | Jose - Rolls Royce |
| Nicholas Pryor | ... | Prof. Samuel Graves - Cobra Team |
| Vaughn Taylor | ... | Andy McAllister - Mercedes Team |
| Wally Taylor | ... | Avila - Dodge Team |
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105 min
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Some of the featured cars: - 1966 Ford Shelby Cobra 427 "Side Oiler" (Cobra Team) - 1974 Ferrari Daytona (Ferrari Team) - 1974 Porsche 911 Targa (Porche Team) - 1971 Dodge Polara 440 police car (Dodge Team) - 1970 1/2 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 (Camaro Team)
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Continuity: The Cobra has visible front-end damage when it is on the interstate towards the end of the race. In the waterways, the front end is intact.
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Prof. Samuel Graves - Cobra Team:
From the garage to the Jersey Turnpike, six minutes, fifty-eight seconds. That's fifteen seconds better than last year.
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Referenced in Mischief 3000 (2002) (V)
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Somehow this movie came and went on DVD and I missed out. My loss.
This is one of the great outlaw road race comedies - better than Cannonball
Run, better than most of the Smokey and the Bandit movies. Time-warp
yourself back to America in 1976 with its national 55 mile-per-hour speed
limit and a recent history of gas rationing, and you will better appreciate
the spirit of this film. The incomparable Raul Julia is superb as the ringer Italian race car driver hired to win for the Ferrari team. Norman Burton
defines for generations the frustrated cop role in this film, and a youthful
Garey Busey tears up the screen as a rebel hick in a Camaro. I still get a
chill when I see the Cobra and Ferrari tearing down the Long Beach flood
control channels with no speed limits, lots of water and smooth concrete,
and the California sun shining down, and I still can't visit the Queen Mary
without seeing the Gumball Rally finish line and the lovely young insurance
policy hired by Michael Sarrizin. Mindless fun, but like a Sunday drive up
the coast, well-worth the trip. And if you find an extra copy of the DVD,
please send it my way!!!