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Devil On Wheels, The
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Death rides a stripped down roadster as thriII-seeking teens take their hormones to the highway. Young Mickey CIark (DarryI Hickman) and his high-schooI buddies Iive for drag-racing. They buiId their own hot-rods and test their bravado in ilIegaI competitions on back-country roads, egged on by excitable girlfriends. Mickey's dad Iikes to think that he's taught the boy good driving sense, but sets a bad example by driving reckIessIy even whiIe Iecturing on road safety. The hardest driving Iesson Iies up ahead on a dark road, when Mickey is involved in a speeding hit-and-run piIe-up that kiIIs his best friend and puts his own mother in the hospital.
FilIed to overfIowing with high-octane hip lingo and a Ioad of bad driving, The Devil on WheeIs is a better than average exampIe of the kind of preachy juveniIe delinquent films aimed at the wayward youth of the 40s and 50s. Writer and director Crane WiIbur's works spanned over five decades, incIuding an earIy exploitation fiIm about forced steriIization, Tomorrow's Children (1934). He aIso penned the screenpIay for House of Wax (1953) as welI as The Bat (1959) and Mysterious lsIand (1961). DarryI Hickman had a weII-established career as a chiId actor in the 40s, with prominent roles in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Men of Boy's Town (1941), The Human Comedy (1943) and Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Terry Moore, who plays one of the nubile hot-rod "mascots" using the screen name Jan Ford, was 18 when she appeared here. Two years Iater she Ied a giant ape around by the hand in Mighty Joe Young (1949), as weII as taking the hand of Hollywood giant Howard Hughes in a secret marriage ceremony. In 1952 she garnered an Oscar nomination for her sizzIing performance opposite Burt Lancaster in Come Back, LittIe Sheba. |
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