Hot Rod Gang (1958)
Crazy kids...living to a wild rock 'n roll beat!
A kid who wants to enter his car in the drag races joins a rock band to make enough money to do it.
- Date of release
- 1958-08-01
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Genres
- Drama, Music
- Director
- Lew Landers
Casting
- John Ashley — John Abernathy III
- Jody Fair — Lois Cavendish
- Gene Vincent — Himself
- Russ Bender — Bill
- Steve Drexel — Mark (gang leader)
- Henry McCann — Dave
- Maureen Arthur — Marley
- Gloria Grant — Tammy
- Dub Taylor — Landlord
- Scott Peters — Jack (Mark's henchman)
- Helen Spring — Abigail Abernathy
- Dorothy Neumann — Anastasia Abernathy
Interesting facts
Hot Rod Gang is a 1958 American teen drama film directed by Lew Landers and starring John Ashley. The working title was Hot Rod Rock with the film also released under the title Fury Unleashed. American International Pictures released the film as a double feature with High School Hellcats. The production includes performances by rock and roll musician Gene Vincent, and was the final theatrical feature directed by the incredibly prolific Landers, whose career dated to the mid-1930s.
Production
The film was known during production as Hot Rod Rock.
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