The Young Racers

The Young Racers

Directed by	Roger Corman
Produced by	Roger Corman
Written by	R. Wright Campbell
Starring	Mark Damon William Campbell Luana Anders Patrick Magee
Music by	Les Baxter
Production company	Filmgroup
Distributed by	American International Pictures (1963, original)
Release dates	January 1963 (1963-01)
Running time	84 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$90,000^[1]

The Young Racers is a 1963 film directed by Roger Corman.

Cast

Mark Damon as Stephen Children
William Campbell as Joe Machin
Luana Anders as Henny
Patrick Magee as Sir William Dragonet
John McLaren as team manager Lotus
R. Wright Campbell as Robert Machin
Milo Quesada as Italian pilot
Margarete Robsahm as Lea
Béatrice Altariba as Monique
Christina Gregg as Daphne
Marie Versini as Sesia Machin

Production

The film was shot on location in Europe to take advantage of the real life grand prix. He hired Robert Wright Campbell, brother of the lead actor, William Campbell, to write the script; he wanted Campbell to base the script on an earlier screenplay he had written about a young American who gets involved with a great bullfighter in Spain. The movie was shot from race to race with the cast and crew taking breaks in between - Monaco, Rouen, Spa in Belgium, Holland and England.^[2]

Reception

Quentin Tarantino described himself as "a big fan of" the movie. "Where this supposed bad ass driver takes bedding women as seriously as he does winning races. Action flick meets romantic drama, but nicely balanced."^[3]

DVD

The Young Racers was released in a Region 1 DVD on Sep 11 2007, as part of the box set The Roger Corman Collection.

References

↑ Alan Frank, The Films of Alan Frank: Shooting My Way Out of Trouble, Bath Press, 1998 p 112
↑ Roger Corman & Jim Jerome, How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never lost a Dime, Muller, 1990 p 110-111
↑ "QUENTIN TARANTINO: MY FAVOURITE RACING MOVIES" F1 Social Diary 21 August, 2013 accessed 5 July 2014

External links

The Young Racers at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Roger Corman

Five Guns West (1955)
Swamp Women (1955)
Apache Woman (1955)
Day the World Ended (1955)
The Oklahoma Woman (1956)
Gunslinger (1956)
It Conquered the World (1956)
Naked Paradise (1957)
Carnival Rock (1957)
Not of This Earth (1957)
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
The Undead (1957)
Rock All Night (1957)
Teenage Doll (1957)
Sorority Girl (1957)
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957)
I, Mobster (1958)
War of the Satellites (1958)
Machine-Gun Kelly (1958)
Teenage Cave Man (1958)
She Gods of Shark Reef (1958)
A Bucket of Blood (1959)
The Wasp Woman (1959)
Ski Troop Attack (1960)
House of Usher (1960)
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Last Woman on Earth (1960)
Atlas (1961)
Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
The Premature Burial (1962)
The Intruder (1962)
Tales of Terror (1962)
Tower of London (1962)
The Young Racers (1963)
The Raven (1963)
The Terror (1963)
The Haunted Palace (1963)
X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
The Secret Invasion (1964)
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
The Wild Angels (1966)
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)
The Trip (1967)
Target: Harry (1969)
Bloody Mama (1970)
Gas-s-s-s (1971)
Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)
Frankenstein Unbound (1990)

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