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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #25 on: May 02, 2010, 04:51:21 AM »
You've got it. Joel Lawrence made very few films but his face his familiar because he's been in so many TV series.
Too bad for metalshapes who identified the film and the car (the Caballo de Hiero), but didn't search further for the actor.
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #26 on: May 02, 2010, 05:01:47 AM »
Maybe he did. If you hadn't thrown the TV still in there, I'd still be searching.
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #27 on: May 02, 2010, 05:55:00 AM »
Maybe he did, but why didn't he start with those credited on the film posters?
 I didn't know H. Haile Chace myself (he's acted in 2 films and 3 TV shows episodes only). But he was technical advisor on Johnny Dark and so maybe had some importance in the racing world, which metalshapes knows much better than me.

He also directed two movies whose synopsis (copied from imdb) I give below. The first one is called "Paradisio".  Old timers, do you remember those ads for the X-ray glasses? Here they are!
"An English professor interested in photography is given a pair of special sunglasses by an Austrian colleague. To his surprise and boyish delight, he discovers they're X-ray specs, which allow him to see through people's clothes! As he ventures across Europe, he is pursued by spies who're after the glasses. He eventually manages to elude them, and settles down to a life of ease, ogling naked women on beaches..."

The other is "V.D.", sometimes more elegantly called "Damaged Goods".
"A high school track star's wedding plans are capsized by venereal disease and a bad, beautiful new girl in town. His coach and a physician steer him into the light again. "

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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #28 on: May 02, 2010, 05:55:58 AM »
Yikes!
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #29 on: May 04, 2010, 08:09:54 PM »
Maybe he did. If you hadn't thrown the TV still in there, I'd still be searching.

Yeah, I did.

But my line of searching didnt give me any useble Info.

So you won the points fair and square... :)

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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #30 on: May 05, 2010, 06:04:19 AM »
Driver #7 Will Hutchins / Movie #9 Spinout
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #31 on: May 05, 2010, 01:04:13 PM »
Driver #18 is a certain Mr. Brett Halsey, starring in the movie #3 Speed Crazy.

The girl might be Yvonne Lime, as can be read here:

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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #32 on: May 06, 2010, 08:17:52 AM »
Sorry guys. Being not at home I can't confirm or deny. I don't remember all of this by heart. I've should have brought an USB key with my files.
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #33 on: May 06, 2010, 08:50:38 AM »
Driver #7 Will Hutchins / Movie #9 Spinout
At least I can't say that Movie 9 cannot be Spinout, since it has already been correctly identified as The Devil's Hairpin, matched with Cornel Wilde 'Driver 1).
And that Speed Crazy is oviously right.
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #34 on: May 09, 2010, 07:26:28 AM »
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #35 on: May 10, 2010, 03:55:38 AM »
Yessir!  Appreciated.
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #36 on: May 13, 2010, 10:55:44 AM »
Driver #7 Will Hutchins / Movie #9 Spinout

Sorry, Otto. As I had guessed it's a no, twice.

Driver #18 is a certain Mr. Brett Halsey, starring in the movie #3 Speed Crazy.

But this is perfectly right, Grob'.
I love the poster with the girl so stiff that her shorts seem to be molded in concrete.
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #37 on: May 16, 2010, 01:51:37 PM »
Movie No8 is The Wild Ride from 1960 and Driver 17 is John Bologni
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #38 on: May 16, 2010, 01:55:29 PM »
Driver No7: Johnny Sands, Movie No17: Born to Speed, 1946
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Movie 19 is Indianapolis Speedway, 1949 and I did not find a matching photo, but my guess would be Driver No2 as John Payne
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #39 on: May 17, 2010, 12:14:52 AM »
While Ray B pops in to check whether I am correct, I found another one: Movie No4 is The Spinout while Driver11 seems to be a young Elvis Presley.

And another one, of which I am not entirely sure: Movie No12 seems to be Burning Up a movie from 1930, starring Richard Arlen who seems to be Driver8
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #40 on: May 17, 2010, 02:27:57 AM »
Movie No8 is The Wild Ride from 1960 and Driver 17 is John Bologni

It's The Wild Ride indeed, and the right pictures, but it's not John Bologni.
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #41 on: May 17, 2010, 02:30:15 AM »
Driver No7: Johnny Sands, Movie No17: Born to Speed, 1946
Perfect.
Movie 19 is Indianapolis Speedway, 1949 and I did not find a matching photo, but my guess would be Driver No2 as John Payne

You have the movie right, not the driver (wrong picture, wrong ID).
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #42 on: May 17, 2010, 02:37:38 AM »
Movie No4 is The Spinout while Driver11 seems to be a young Elvis Presley.
No to both, but you're on to something.

And another one, of which I am not entirely sure: Movie No12 seems to be Burning Up a movie from 1930, starring Richard Arlen who seems to be Driver8
And on this one you're perfectly right.
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #43 on: May 17, 2010, 02:44:26 AM »
With due respect, Film4 got to be The Spinout - that was the movie where Ol' Yaller Mk IV had the starting number 9
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #44 on: May 17, 2010, 03:15:10 AM »
Dammit you're right. I got misled by my source who identified it as a another Elvis race movie: Speedway. I should have checked it you know were and see that Speedway was about Nascar races or such.

Now I can't change the driver which goes with this picture , it would be too revealing. So, your mission, if you accept it, is to find and name, among those drivers, which one appears in "Speedway".
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #45 on: May 17, 2010, 04:12:33 AM »
Movie No8 is The Wild Ride from 1960 and Driver 17 is probably Jack Nicholson
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #46 on: May 17, 2010, 04:45:05 AM »
You're right it is, and he wasn't that much famous at the time or they would have chosen a picture of him where he looks much more like himself !
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #47 on: May 17, 2010, 07:05:15 AM »
A shot in the dark: Driver 3 Lori Nilsen, movie is The Hot Rod Girl, 1956 and it is Film No7
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #48 on: May 17, 2010, 08:34:02 AM »
Maybe you'd better turn the light on. It's true that the girl looks a bit like Lori Nilsen, but you can you believe that the picture for Film 7 (or even Driver 3) is dated 1956?
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Re: Race movies from the top shelf
« Reply #49 on: May 17, 2010, 11:26:57 AM »
Driver 15: Richard Conte, Movie No6: Race For Life also known as Mask of Dust, 1954
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