
Joel Sloane is a rare book dealer and part time detective. He finds stolen or lost rare books for the insurance companies and gets a reward for their return. But this is a little different. Otto Brockler, a rare book dealer with questionable ethics, has been murdered. The list of suspects is long. Ned, who Otto sent to prison to get insurance money and keep him away from Leah. Leah, who is in love with the falsely convicted Ned. Elias, a silent partner in stolen and forged bo... (Full plot summary below)
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Joel Sloane is a rare book dealer and part time detective. He finds stolen or lost rare books for the insurance companies and gets a reward for their return. But this is a little different. Otto Brockler, a rare book dealer with questionable ethics, has been murdered. The list of suspects is long. Ned, who Otto sent to prison to get insurance money and keep him away from Leah. Leah, who is in love with the falsely convicted Ned. Elias, a silent partner in stolen and forged books. Sydney, a master forger of rare books. Julia, Otto's secretary who has expensive clothes and jewelry. Joel is the one who must find the murderer before he becomes the next victim.
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| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonA solid little "B" movie that crosses the finish line. |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesEven in a yee-haw drive-in flick about manly men drivin' cars, Cronenberg manages to sneak in some body-consciousness. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzAn enjoyable pedestrian drive-in B-film about drag racing. |
| User ReviewCharlie Eif your a canadian drag racer it a great movie, theres a lot of history in this movie, heck my even my dads chevelle can be seen in it. |
| User ReviewCollier WCronenberg is the director for hire here, and he has made a sublime racing picture, with an unforgettable cast of characters. Rattling confidently like the ramshackle cars driven by our team, the picture is simultaneously a sports parable about integrity and a deep meditation on the sport of drag racing. You can smell the fuel, the burning rubber, cold dawnings on a deserted racetrack by an alfalfa field, and all those oily characters. You may laugh at the butt rock anthems on the soundtrack, but if you don't root for Lonnie Johnson and Billy, I don't want to know you. |
| User ReviewPaul WOne of the best drag racing movies ever. Few have even been made though. |
| User ReviewAnders AEven in a yee-haw drive-in flick about manly men drivin' cars, Cronenberg manages to sneak in some body-consciousness. |
| User Reviewjonh sIt's Cronenberg and it's got John Saxan, but I can't find that much enthusiasm for it. Decent genre piece, but not one with much life. |
| User ReviewBrian SJust as David Lynch has his "The Straight Story", Cronenberg has Fast Company. Far from anything else in his filmography, Cronenberg handles the simple drive-in movie script with some sense of pacing and style, but ultimately its kind of generic. However, William Smith and John Saxon both do a good job. |
| User ReviewBryan WWho would have guessed that Cronenberg's second love after stomach churning gore was fast cars? A racer biopic by Cronenberg? Believe it or not, it's actually not bad at all. The Blue Underground DVD even has two of his earliest short films. |