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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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(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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Last cinema film of Vaughn Taylor.
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Continuity: Scene shifts from night to day when the motorcyclist runs off the road.
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Chopper Pilot:
Sir? We can't catch 'em.
Roscoe: Whaddaya mean?
Chopper Pilot: They must be doing 180. We don't even have a fixed-wing that'll go that fast!
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Roscoe: Whaddaya mean?
Chopper Pilot: They must be doing 180. We don't even have a fixed-wing that'll go that fast!
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Referenced in Mischief 3000 (2002) (V)
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Upon first view.. one will chuckle at the 70's production value in the opening sequence.
Get past that.
Gumball is the best of the cross-country race genre. Much better than any film in the Cannonball series. Why? For one...It's just as funny. Filled with some great lines and chock full of fantastic car sequences. Turning the speakers up may make it sound like you are at a Busch race. Raul Julia steals the show as far as the characters. Every moment that he's on the screen you'll have a smile from ear to ear.
"55 is unsafe....it's slow enough to make you think you're safe....but it's fast enough to kill you" Many scenes were shot at breathtaking speeds WITH THE ACTUAL ACTORS....this really adds to the realism... and overall, every car sequence is eye-popping. Where the 70's production value detracts from the film in the opening sequence....it actually helps in others...like when it adds a lightheartedness to the absolutely awesome downstretch in the waterways with the music....and of course the cars making music to automobile fans...Ferrari Daytona zipping....427 cobra roaring... steam from the water flying off the engine block.
The actors had fun making this one...and I had fun watching...all 20 some odd times.
shhhhhhhh..... ..........GUMBALL!