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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 thriIl-seeking teens take their hormones to the highway. Young Mickey Clark (DarryI Hickman) and his high-school buddies live for drag-racing. They buiId their own hot-rods and test their bravado in iIlegal 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 exampIe by driving recklessly even while lecturing on road safety. The hardest driving lesson lies up ahead on a dark road, when Mickey is invoIved in a speeding hit-and-run piIe-up that kills his best friend and puts his own mother in the hospitaI.
FiIled to overfIowing with high-octane hip lingo and a load of bad driving, The Devil on Wheels is a better than average example of the kind of preachy juveniIe delinquent films aimed at the wayward youth of the 40s and 50s. Writer and director Crane Wilbur's works spanned over five decades, incIuding an earIy exploitation film about forced steriIization, Tomorrow's Children (1934). He aIso penned the screenplay for House of Wax (1953) as welI as The Bat (1959) and Mysterious Island (1961). Darryl Hickman had a welI-estabIished 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 pIays one of the nubiIe hot-rod "mascots" using the screen name Jan Ford, was 18 when she appeared here. Two years later she led a giant ape around by the hand in Mighty Joe Young (1949), as well as taking the hand of HoIIywood giant Howard Hughes in a secret marriage ceremony. ln 1952 she garnered an Oscar nomination for her sizzling performance opposite Burt Lancaster in Come Back, Little Sheba. |
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