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| Danton Films | Release Date: August 17, 1979 |
Starring:
Cedric Smith, Claudia Jennings, David Graham, Don Francks, George Buza, John Saxon, Judy Foster, Nicholas Campbell, Robert Haley, William Smith
Summary:
After his sponsor replaces him with his arch rival, a race-car driver decides to steal the car and race it himself.
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What gives it the Cronenberg feel, in spite of the complete absence of his standard themes, is his manner of filming the dragsters: they become, like the horrible growths that usually dominate his movies, the physical projection of the characters' hostile energies, weapons they use to act out the psychological conflicts that torture them off the track.
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William Smith, who plays Lucky Lonnie, a drag-strip racer in David Cronenberg's Fast Company, is a personification of country singer Waylon Jennings' voice: powerful and rich and funky and gentle. He doesn't hold Fast Company together - a vise the size of Paraguay couldn't hold Fast Company together - but his presence gives the movie an entirely undeserved distinction. [03 Oct 1979]
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