Death race 2000 mr president 1976 callum

#DEATH RACE 2000 MR PRESIDENT 1976 CALLUM SERIES#

Death Race 2000 was remade as Death Race (2008) by director Paul W.S. Roger Corman later produced Deathsport (1978) with David Carradine, a dreary post-holocaust action film, which was sold as though it was a sequel to Death Race 2000, although it is not.

Up until his death in 2000, Paul Bartel also made numerous B-movie acting appearances, usually in Roger Corman company films. As director, Paul Bartel also made Not for Publication (1984), Lust in the Dust (1985), The Longshot (1986) and Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989), as well as wrote the script for the bad taste comedy Mortuary Academy (1988), although none of these ever achieved the success of either Death Race 2000 or his cult black comedy Eating Raoul (1982). Paul Bartel would go onto direct films like Cannonball (1976), a non-genre attempt to replicate the coast-to-coast car chase success of Death Race 2000 and also starring David Carradine. The funniest performance of all is that of young Sylvester Stallone who in his own close-lipped monosyllabic way, roaring and shouting as he runs victims down, gives an extremely funny send-up of brutish Italian thuggery and the type of role that he would take seriously in the next decade. A young unknown Sylvester Stallone a Machine Gun Joe ViterboДЄmong the mostly amateurish excess of the rest of the cast, David Carradine in stolid, grim mode behind black mask and cape achieves quite nicely. The level of gore in the film is rather funny in a stupid way (although Paul Bartel claims that all of was edited in afterwards by Roger Corman). There seems nothing more deliriously absurd than the images of Mary Woronov in her car with bull horns mounted on the fender careening around a field trying to run down a man with a red flag or nurses lining up patients in wheelchairs on the road outside a hospital. The lines come quickly and funnily вЂ“ вЂњIf everyone scatters go for the baby and mother,вЂќ Martin Kove instructs his co-driver as they head for a group of picnickers. The actual details of point-scoring in the Death Race are hidden up until Sylvester Stallone first runs down the construction worker, whereupon commentator Don Steele appears on screen and starts yelling, вЂњtoo bad he was only 38, two more years and heвЂ™d be worth three times the points.вЂќ The drollness of the comedy mounts with debates over whether David Carradine can score by running down race officials or Sylvester Stallone his own track crew. Frankenstein (David Carradine) with his co-driver Simone GriffethДЄnd, as with any Roger Corman film, Death Race 2000 contains at least several up and coming talents hoping to break into the industry including a young Sylvester Stallone Martin Kove, who would become a minor B action star in the 1990s a young John Landis, later director of The Blues Brothers (1980) and An American Werewolf in London (1981) in the role of a mechanic and shooting second unit a young Lewis Teague, later director of Alligator (1980), Cujo (1983) and Navy Seals (1988).Дeath Race 2000 is directed, edited and photographed in a crude and unappealing way but inside hides a drollness. Subsequently, David Carradine managed to etch out for himself the role of a sort of Zen Clint Eastwood in a number of low-budget films like this.

#DEATH RACE 2000 MR PRESIDENT 1976 CALLUM SERIES#

Death Race 2000 starred David Carradine, who had just come off the end of his cult tv series Kung Fu (1972-5). Also on board was Paul BartelвЂ™s Raoul and frequent co-star, low budget cult queen Mary Woronov. Bartel had previously directed the little-seen kinky black comedy Private Parts (1972) and would go onto create the cult black comedy Eating Raoul (1982) about a couple killing swingers. Griffith who scripted some CormanвЂ™s more amusing cult films like A Bucket of Blood (1959) and The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) and Robert Thom, who wrote the quirkily satirical science-fiction film Wild in the Streets (1968) and the very strange The Witch Who Came From the Sea (1976). In the producerвЂ™s seat was Roger Corman and on the script were Ib Melchior, a B-budget director/producer of the 1960s who made films like The Angry Red Planet (1959), Reptilicus (1961), Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962) and The Time Travelers (1964) Charles B. Indeed, Death Race 2000 gained a cult reputation in some quarters for a number of years.Дeath Race 2000 brings together some of the more fertile talents that were then gathered under the New World Pictures roof. The irony is that Death Race 2000 was a far more enjoyable film than the much more ponderous and heavy-handed Rollerball was. This quirky little low-budget production was designed to exploit the success of the far bigger budgeted Rollerball (1975) and its vision of future sports.

Death race 2000 mr president 1976 callum