Thunder Alley

Thunder Alley (1967)

Screaming wheels - Reckless pleasures!

Stock car racer Tommy Callahan is forced to join Pete Madsen's thrill circus after his blackouts cause a fatal accident that gets him thrown off the circuit.

Date of release
1967-03-22
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Action, Drama, Romance
Director
Richard Rush

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Florida

Thunder Alley is a 1967 film about auto racing directed by Richard Rush and starring Annette Funicello and Fabian Forte. It was released by American International Pictures.

Production

The film was originally known as Malibu 500 and Rebel 500. It was the third of a seven-picture deal between AIP and Fabian.

The director was Richard Rush who had made a number of lower budgeted films. He got the job through his agent, who was married to Annette Funicello at the time. Rush said AIP "were fond of my work.... They were the teenage exploitation studio... Since I was very rebellious, my characters were always very rebellious, which seemed to be the keynote of American youth at that time. My pictures worked in the marketplace."

AIP was then run by the team of Sam Arkoff and James H. Nicholson. Rush said before filming, "Sam Arkoff took me aside and said, 'Look, [Jim] Nicholson has got this girlfriend, and I don't want her on the picture.' I said that was okay. A while later, Nicholson pulled me aside and said, 'Richard, there's this girl I'd like you to use on the picture...'." (It is likely this was Susan Hart.)

Filming began on 1 November 1966 and took place at the Producers Studio in Hollywood.

Rush later said "Fabian turned out to be much better than my expectations. I had that jaundiced view of, "Oh, it's Fabian — a manufactured talent." But he

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