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As if often the case, I see something on television that catches my eye (No idea why this one did) and I begin viewing in the middle, get interrupted, see the next bit on another day etc etc.
Death Race 2000 was filmed in 1975 starring amongst others; David Carradine (before Kung Fu I think), Sylvester Stallone (before Rocky) and Fred Grandy (Before the Love Boat sailed). Well, everybody has to eat. Movie stars must wince occasionally when these old beauties pop up.
Death Race 2000 is set in an America where Mr. President lives in Moscow and each year he sponsors the most popular show in America. Five contestants and their navigators race from east to west and who ever kills the most pedestrians wins. That simple. They must have saved a lot of money building the cars, they were all light weight sporty type cars with lots of deadly looking appliances glued on; horns, jagged teeth, large knives.
There is not much of a plot except the granddaughter of a revolutionary force is the navigator for Dr. Frankenstein (David Carradine). There are attempts to capture him to force Mr. President to stop the Death races. uh,huh.
When I spotted Sylvester Stallone as Machine Gun Joe sumpin' sumpin', I thought it was someone doing a poor imitation of Sly, that snarl, but nope it is him in all his glory one year before writing, directing and starring in Rocky.
I noticed Fred Grandy as Herman the German, navigator for um, um, some Teutonic woman driver and he didn't last long, he was fixing something underneath their menacing vehicle and another driver came along and drove RIGHT over poor Herman....lots of Hollywood gore splashing about.
The film was filmed locally in Ojai and the back foot hills of Hollywood because how many times have you watched the same bunch of cowboys galloping like crazy after a bunch of bad guy across those same acres? Yeah, I thought so.
And just so no one feels bad, Leonard Nimoy had a bit part in "THEM" (1957 Giant radioactive ants that moved to Los Angeles)
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