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The Wild Racers

  • 1968
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 23m
IMDb RATING
4.1/10
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The Wild Racers (1968)
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A devil-may-care racing driver is paid by an auto tycoon to be a runner-up, not a winner, but he rebels against the crooked deal and becomes an internationally famous racer.A devil-may-care racing driver is paid by an auto tycoon to be a runner-up, not a winner, but he rebels against the crooked deal and becomes an internationally famous racer.A devil-may-care racing driver is paid by an auto tycoon to be a runner-up, not a winner, but he rebels against the crooked deal and becomes an internationally famous racer.

  • Directors
    • Daniel Haller
    • Roger Corman
  • Writer
    • Max House
  • Stars
    • Fabian
    • Mimsy Farmer
    • Judy Cornwell
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.1/10
    217
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    • Directors
      • Daniel Haller
      • Roger Corman
    • Writer
      • Max House
    • Stars
      • Fabian
      • Mimsy Farmer
      • Judy Cornwell
    • 14User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Fabian
    Fabian
    • Joe Joe Quillico
    Mimsy Farmer
    Mimsy Farmer
    • Katherine Pearson
    Judy Cornwell
    Judy Cornwell
    • Pippy
    Warwick Sims
    • Charlie
    Alan Haufrect
    Alan Haufrect
    • Virgil
    David Landau
    • Ian
    • (as David Landar)
    Talia Shire
    Talia Shire
    • June - Katherine's Friend
    • (as Talia Coppola)
    Ursule Pauly
    • French Girlfriend
    Dick Miller
    Dick Miller
    • Pit Crew Mechanic
    Ron Gans
    Fabienne Arel
    Patricia Culbert
    • Louise
    Mary Jo Deschanel
    Mary Jo Deschanel
    • Dancing Girl
    • (as Mary Jo Kennedy)
    Kurt Boon
    • Directors
      • Daniel Haller
      • Roger Corman
    • Writer
      • Max House
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    User reviews14

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    10maxyhouse

    Amazing! Great! Fantastic! Excellent writing! these are just a few words to describe this underrated gem.

    This movie will BLOW YOUR MIND! I cant believe this movie is seen by very few people it is easily one of the best i have seen in my lifetime. The plot is full of heartwarming love and fast action. The only thing that triumphs the directing is the WRITING! Max House is a great writer and it is very sad that this is his only credit, might as well quit when your at the top i guess. I really wish to see more of Max House I hope he is still doing well and writing lot's! I will keep this review short and brief but i can't say it enough SEE THIS MASTERPIECE PLEASE AND SPREAD THE WORD.

    Thanks.
    6al_duke

    Not great; not too bad either

    This story about former NASCAR driver Joe Joe Quilico and his quest of making it big in European Grand Prix and Le Mans racing, and pursue a love life at the same time ought to evoke comparisons to two epic racing movies, Grand Prix and Le Mans. One good thing is the footage of exciting racing, which ought to please many fans of that era's Formula One and sports car prototype racing. It's interesting that we have a NASCAR driver making the switch to F1 (nowadays, it's the other way around-- Juan Pablo Montoya and Scott Speed come to mind), and Fabian does a great job in his role as an American racer adjusting to life on the European racing circuit.

    Now for the dislike. The editing! The Wild Racers makes use of too many quick cuts and the film's flow is generally "jerky" and the scenes cut too quickly into the next; it is not smooth at all, making it hard to follow the story at times. Compared to its contemporaries, Le Mans and Grand Prix-- the editing in those movies was much more tastefully done and served better in conveying a sense of emotion, or action, where it was needed. I never felt that I lost the storyline in those movies.

    I agree with the other review that this story written by Max House is excellent. The storyline is great, no doubt-- but the execution simply didn't convey that, in my opinion. I still enjoyed the racing sequences, though. The Wild Racers could, and should, have been up there as one of the great racing movies of all time.
    7rcecconi

    LeMans premonition?

    I had to look up the dates on Wild Racers and LeMans. For the first hour of the movie it felt like the director was telling Fabian, " Do everything the way McQueen did it in LeMans". He even drives the same car. Remarkably, LeMans was made 2 years later. While I'll never put the two movies (or Fabian & McQueen) on the same level, they both had that same "Groovy" sixties vibe. That's what I love about sixties racing movies, they're like a time capsule of culture & style. The hair, the clothes, the way they talk...it's quite entertaining. Probably because racing is perceived as a young man's game. Living on the "Edge" as it were. I don't think if they made a period movie about the sixties, they could make it as convincing as the real thing.

    Which leads me to the racing. While the racing footage in "Wild Racers" was excellent, it wasn't real. "LeMans" was real racing, real racers and real tension. Fabian, as good looking as he is, is no match for the hard intensity of McQueen. And McQueen was a bonified race car driver. An enthusiast of motor sports in general. Having driven and rode in competition, he had a leg up on Fabian.

    It would be easy to pass Wild Racers off as a vehicle to launch the heart throb, crooner, a'La Elvis Presley, but that would be doing the actual film making a disservice. It's a very hip, inventive movie that takes some cinematic chances for the era it was made. Shaky cam, interesting camera angles, and lighting,very artsy when compared to the contrived schlock of a typical Elvis movie.

    Perhaps, not a break out role for Mimsy Farmer, (did she ever have one?) she is breathtakingly, beautiful here. Like a vulnerable Amy Adams. I'd watch it again just for her.

    All in all, a pretty decent, lazy Sunday afternoon, flick. If your asking, "Should I ?" I'm saying, "Yeah, why not"
    4bigtrain45

    Typical American International mediocrity

    The movie opens with a mish mash of stock car crashes, on asphalt, on dirt, at demolition derbies, etc., with a voiceover of how bad Fabian's character is as a driver and he's been banned from racing NASCAR. So now he goes slumming in Europe, racing Formula One. Yeah, sure. The most sophisticated level of motorsports happily welcomes a reject from a 3rd rate Americn series.

    The racing scenes are ok, but poorly edited with no continuity. One second you're at Brands Hatch, the next you're at Zandvoort, then suddenly it's the Nurburgring. Fabian can''t act, he can just be Fabian.
    6movieman-227

    Fabian was the boss!

    A surprisingly artsy AIP drive-in race car movie whose credits are as interesting as what's actually on screen. The great Verna Fields (before "Jaws," etc.) and Nestor Almendros (a favorite DP of Truffaut and Rohmer before lensing films like "Places in the Heart") have editing and cinematography credits. That is a very big deal! And it was fun seeing "Talia Coppola" before she became "Talia Shire," and Mimy Farmer a year before she made Barbet Schroeder's X-rated "More" (also shot by Almendros btw). Fabian was a 1960's dreamboat. He was much "hotter" than Frankie Avalon or Tommy Sands: I never understood why his career never transcended teeny-bopper fare like this. A fascinating curio for connoisseurs of '60s "B" cinema.

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    • Trivia
      First movie of Talia Shire. First movie of Mary Jo Deschanel.
    • Quotes

      Joe Joe Quillico: 'Cause I'm Joe Joe Quillico, king of the hillico. And they call me Joe Joe, 'cause I got the mojo. Ya know what mojo is? Mojo is magic. And that's where it's at with me, Baby. Do you like it when I call you Baby?

    • Connections
      Referenced in Life in the Fast Lane: Roger Corman on Jack Hill and the Genesis of 'Pit Stop' (2014)
    • Soundtracks
      Wild Racers (Main Theme)
      Written by Mike Curb & Pierre Vassiliu

      Produced by Bob Summers & Mike Curb

      Performed by Davie Allan And The Arrows (as The Sidewalk Sounds)

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    • Release date
      • March 27, 1968 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Wild Racers - Fartens djävlar
    • Filming locations
      • Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
    • Production company
      • Filmakers Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 23 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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