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Stream The Gumball Rally Movie Online.
Movie Title: The Gumball Rally The Gumball Rally is available for streaming or downloading. |
In 1933, legendary motorcyle rider and cross country driver Erwin G. “Cannonball” Baker crossed the United States from coast to coast in approximately 54 hours driving a Graham-Page Model 57 Blue Streak 8…an amazing feat of driving. Nearly, 40 years later in the early 1970’s, “Car & Driver” magazine editor Brock Yates started the “Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash” in his honor. These events were the inspiration for a slew of films including the highly enjoyable, “The Gumball Rally”, (released in 1976) and the bigger budgeted, but inferior production, “The Cannonball Run” (released in 1981). Both were both primarily action oriented “car chase”comedies, however “Gumball” underplays it’s humour with a lesser known cast, thus delivering an overall better film than the Hal Needham directed “Cannonball Run” By far and away “The Gumball Rally”, is one of the best car chase films ever made with a jaw dropping collection of performance automobiles from all around the world. Car afficianado’s will drool over the line up of exotic cars….an AC Shelby Cobra, Ferrari Daytona, Porsche 911, Chevy Camaro, Jaguar E-Type, GM Corvette, Kawasaki motorbike, Mercedes Roadster to name but a few. Each team seeking to out race the other’s hurtling from New York to Long Beach, California.
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Apart from the superb line up of cars, a fun and breezy cast really maintain the fine balance between the unique cars and the actors.
The opening sequence with the near deserted early morning streets of New York awoken by the thunder of finely tuned engines is brilliant…., as is the final showdown as the racers approach the Queen Mary in Los Angeles.
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Lead actor’s Raul Julia (driving the Ferrari with Tim McIntire) & Michael Sarrazin (driving the Shelby Cobra with Nicholas Pryor) shine in this comic escapade and character actor Norman Burton is wonderful as the bumbling cop, Lieutenant Roscoe trying to stop the cross country madness.
( Tragically, actor Tim McIntire died at age 42 from heart failure, possibly brought about by his alleged drug/alcohol addiction. Steven Keats (Kandinsky) died from an apparent suicide at age 49, and Normann Burton died in a car accident aged 80 ! )
It’s great to finally have “The Gumball Rally” officially released on DVD, however it’s fairly dissapointing that the disc has “zero” in the way of extras. Would have been nice to have some commentary from cast or crew, or some behind the scenes on the making of the film.
So buckle up your seat belts, start your engines, and hang on and enjoy pure petroleum based entertainment…….And remember the first rule of Italian driving…” What’s a-behind me is not important “.
Of the “let’s break the law and have some fun while we do it” genre, this is one of the best. The writing, the acting and the production was witty, funny, and still holds up nearly 30 years later.
So where, oh where, oh WHERE, is the DVD? Another reviewer said it for all of us when he quoted Raul Julia’s character-defining line from the early part of the film: “What is behind me…is not important.” And so it goes with VHS…over, behind us, end of story…Bring ON the DVD!
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