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Catch Me If You Can

Aloha, Bobby and Rosei

Born to Run

Buck Privates
Come Home

Fever Heat

To Please a Lady

The Crowd Roars

The World's
Fastest Indian

3 - The Dale
Earnhardt Story

Roar of the Crowd

Days of Thunder

Red Line 7000

Thunder in Carolina

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Catch Me If You Can

with Matt Lattanzi and Loryn Locklin


If you can't win the race, move the finish line... A hotshot car racer persuades the class president of a small Minnesota high school to gamble on illegal car races to raise money for their school facing closure.

(1989) Color, 106 min.




















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Aloha, Bobby and Rose

with Paul Le Mat and Dianne Hull


In 1970s Hollywood, small-time auto mechanic Bobby (Paul Le Mat) and fast food waitress Rose (Diane Hull) meet and fall in love. They dream of a life in Hawaii, and talk of living there in the near future.

One night, Bobby’s prank of the “fake” robbery of a convenience store with a shotgun backfires: A young shopkeeper is killed in an accidental homicide.

Following the accident, Bobby and Rose become fugitives, and Rose becomes worried about the future of her five-year-old son. They decide to go on the run in Bobby’s 1968 Chevrolet Camaro.

(1975) Color, 88 min.










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Born to Run

with Richard Grieco


Stylish film about drag racing, girls, friendship, following dreams and sticking it out.

He’s the reigning king of the blacktop, where there no limits and winning is all that matters.

Color, 97 min, (1993, Made for TV). Rated R.





















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Buck Privates Come Home
(Abbott & Costello)

With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Tom Brown, Joan Fulton, Nat Pendleton

Bud and Lou return to civilian life in this hysterical slapstick adventure that Film Bulletin called “by far the most hilarious comedy ever made by Abbott and Costello.”

Slicker Smith (Abbott) and Herbie Brown (Costello) are caught with Evey, a young stowaway they have smuggled on board their ship when returning from Army duty in Europe. Held by immigration authorities, Evey manages to run away and finds Slicker and Herbie peddling “silk” ties in Times Square. Just when they are about to be arrested, Evey helps them escape. Deciding they need to find someone to adopt Evey, they look for her “Aunt” Sylvia (Joan Fulton).

Sylvia’s fiancé is a midget-car racer certain to win an upcoming race if he can only get his car out of the garage, where it is being held for unpaid bills. Pooling their cash, Slicker and Herbie are helping to get the car on track when the police show up. Herbie accidentally starts the car and leads the police on a madcap cross-country race that’s become one of the most hilarious and memorable in film history.

(1947), B&W, 77 min.

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Fever Heat

with Nick Adams, Jeannine Riley, Norman Alden, Vaughn Taylor

"Ace" Jones had been to the top of the dirt track circuits… but fortunes change. Ace was down and looking for a way out. Would he turn his back on a chance for one more big win?

Fever Heat was Nick Adams’ last film (Rebel without a Cause, Picnic, Mr. Roberts among others) before his untimely death. He is joined by a strong cast, including Jeannine Riley (Petticoat Junction) in this passionate look at the skill and intrigue of the roots of auto racing, the dirt oval.

(1968) Color, 109 min. 

 

 

 


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To Please a Lady

with Clark Gable, Barbara Stanwyck,
Adolphe Menjou, Will Geer

A ruthless race-car driver falls for a crusading journalist out to clean up the sport.

(1950) B&W, 91 min.

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THE CROWD ROARS

with James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Eric Linden

Famous motor-racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race. He discovers his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion and during the race Joe loses his nerve when another driver his killed, leaving his brother to win. Joe's luck takes a plunge whilst his brother rises to height of fame.

(1932) B&W, 85 min.

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The World's Fastest Indian

with Anthony Hopkins, Iain Rea, Tessa Mitchell


The story of New Zealander Burt Monro who broke the land-speed world record at the Bonneville Salt Flats on his rebuilt 1920 Indian motorcycle.

Color, 127 min, (2006)

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3
The Dale
Earnhardt Story


2-Disc Collector's Edition

Golden Globe and Emmy nominee
Barry Pepper is perfectly cast as NASCAR great Dale Earnhardt in the ESPN original movie “3”

Growing up in the shadow of his father Ralph, Dale Earnhardt is driven to prove that his dreams of professional racing can be a reality.  But when his own son, Dale Jr., wants to follow in his footsteps, Dale reacts the same way as his stubborn father – until a moving realization helps both him and his son fulfill their destinies on the track. 

From his humble beginnings to the triumph and tragedy of his career, this true-life story provides a thrilling look at the man called “The Intimidator” by rivals and friends alike.  Packed with hours of exclusive bonus footage and interviews from the ESPN archives, this 2-disc special edition DVD is the ultimate account of racing’s legendary hero.

BONUS FEATURES
- Exclusive Interviews With Dale Earnhardt
- An Inside Look At The Legend
- Spectacular Racing Footage From Dale's Best Races On ESPN
- The Making Of "3" Featurette
- Documentary On The Life & Legacy Of Dale Earnhardt
- And Much More!

Run Time – 395 Minutes

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Roar of the Crowd

with Howard Duff, Helene Stanley, Dave Willock, Louise Arthur

"Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but is urged by his sweetheart, Marcy Parker, to give up the track if he wants to marry her. He persuades her to marry him on the promise that he will quit after racing once in the Indianapolis 500, but he is injured in a qualifying race and goes to work as a spark plug salesman for Mackey, an old family friend. He is a failure at selling but Marcy changes her attitude towards his racing, and he qualifies for the 500. Race-car drivers Johnnie Parsons, Duke Nalon, Manuel Ayulo (not the actor Manuel Ayuso) and Henry Banks play themselves."   (Les Adams).

(1953) 71 min.




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Days of Thunder

with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Cary Elwes

Cole Trickle enters the high-pressure world of NASCAR racing. He's a hot driver with a hot temper, and this attitude gets him into trouble not only with other drivers, but members of his own team as well.

(1990) Color, 107 min.


 


 

 

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Red Line 7000

with James Caan, Laura Devon, Gail Hire, Charlene Holt, John Robert Crawford

The story of three racing drivers and the three women who constantly have to worry for the lives of their boyfriends. Jim Loomis and Mike Marsh drive for Pat Cassarian. Jim is expecting his fiancée Holly, but before she arrives, he dies in a race. Since she hasn't got the money to travel back, she stays. The young and very ambitious talent Ned Arp joins the team and immediately starts wooing Pat's sister Julie. Third in the team is womanizer Dan McCall, who brings with him his current girlfriend Gabrielle from Paris. So the basic theme of this soap is "Who with whom?"

(1965) Color, 110 min.

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Thunder in Carolina

With Rory Calhoun, Alan Hale, Connie Hines

A legendary stock car racer (Rory Calhoun) is fast on the track and faster with the women in his life, leading to action on and off the speedway. Calhoun is forced to retire after a nasty crash that left one leg permanently injured. With nothing much to do, Calhoun takes a young garage owner, John Gentry, under his wing and teaches the eager mechanic how to race. Gentry soon becomes obsessed with racing and practically forces his beautiful wife, Connie Hines (Mister Ed), into Calhoun’s arms after he (Gentry) has become smitten with a racetrack groupie. Realizing that he has made a mistake, Calhoun cooks up a plan to snap Gentry back to reality, and reunite him with his wife. Alan Hale Jr. (Gilligan s Island’s beloved The Skipper) is the happy-go-lucky mechanic.

Filmed on the same South Carolina track as Tom Cruise’s Days of Thunder thirty years later, the Southern 500 was considered the World Series of Stock Car Racing. Appearances by Buck Baker, Joe Caspolich, Neil Castles, Sr., Joe Eubanks, Shep Langdon, Francis Thompson, Curtis Turner, Joe Weatherly.

(1963) Color, 92 min.


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