Pit Stop

Pit Stop (1969)

Raw guts for glory! Flesh against steel!

Rick Bowman, a drag racing street punk, comes to the attention of crafty businessman Grant Willard. Willard bails him out of jail and offers him sponsorship as a stock car driver. Bowman accepts and enters the demolition derby-adjacent world of "figure eight" racing. As Bowman moves up in the ranks, his regard for his friends slips-- giving way to outright obsession with becoming the best.

Date of release
1969-05-14
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (27)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Action, Drama
Director
Jack Hill

Casting

Interesting facts

Pit Stop is a 1969 American sports action-drama film written, directed, and edited by Jack Hill, and starring Brian Donlevy, Richard Davalos, Ellen Burstyn, Sid Haig and Beverly Washburn. It is set in the world of Figure 8 stock car racing. It was released by Crown International Pictures on May 14, 1969.

Production

The original title was The Winner but it had to be retitled when Winning was released. It was retitled Pit Stop even though there is no pit stop in the film. Jack Hill saw figure 8 racing and he thought it was so "crazy and so loony" he wanted to document it. Shooting took place in and around Los Angeles in 1967. Roger Corman was an uncredited executive producer.

Although the soundtrack is credited to Seattle psychedelic band The Daily Flash, the group had already disbanded before the film's production. It should actually be credited to the post-Daily Flash project Two Guitars, Piano, Drum & Darryl.

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