Saturday, August 4, 2018

Hot Rod Gang (1958), 5- b/w, fs

Kid who wants to enter his car in the drag races joins a rock band to make enough money to do it.
1h 12min | Drama, Music | August 1958 | b/w, fs
Director: Lew Landers
Stars: John Ashley, Jody Fair, Gene Vincent, Dub Taylor.

Watched online, bad print, audio out of sync, often cuts out completely on songs (deliberate?).

7 songs in the Soundtracks.

I started this at least 5 times, falling asleep 4 of them. I couldn't tell you anything more about the plot than the synopsis, except he has 3 extra obstacles: any angry pedestrian who wants to press charges for his reckless driving (drag racing on the streets/alleys), a landlord (DT) who wants back rent, and a punk who strips cars only to plant the loot on him.

I know/don't even know if he got the car built. He did catch the punk.

I would give this a 4, but I suspect it's mostly the fault of the bad print,

Indio Prod., distr. AIP, dir. Landers; 5-