Hell on Wheels

Hell on Wheels (1967)

THE ACTION IS GO!...when a HOT-HEAD meets a HEAVY-FOOT on a FAST TRACK...and the GIRLS LOVE IT!

Two brothers, one a popular race car driver that all the women love and the other a brilliant mechanic who makes the winning possible, become enemies when one messes with the other's girlfriend

Date of release
1967-09-01
TMDB
4.4 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Drama, Action, Thriller
Director
Will Zens

Casting

Interesting facts

Hell on Wheels is a 1967 American action film about stock-car racing that includes musical performances by several popular country and western singers. It stars Marty Robbins, a popular and successful singer who also dabbled as a NASCAR race driver for a number of years.

Production

The film was shot in Nashville and was independently produced. John Ashley later recalled: "Marty was a terrific fellow and a great singer, and I was a big fan of his. He was a stock car racer, loved stock cars, and the producers had put this thing together. They said to me that this was going to be his motion picture debut, and they needed me to play his brother and basically carry the movie. So I went down there for six or seven weeks."

Ashley, a native of Oklahoma, says that he was "... a big country and western fan. I got a chance to meet a lot of the guys I had heard and admired." Ashley met Charley Pride on the night that Pride became the first black artist to appear at the Grand Ole Opry. Ashley later helped Robbins sponsor a stock car racer. "I didn't have to commit a lot of money, but he wanted a publicity tie-in with me, putting Straightaway on the car.

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