Pit Stop 1967

Race fans will love Pit Stop! The tag line appropriately reads “crash-o-rama !” for this tense tale set against the backdrop of the auto-racing world. Figure 8 racing! Writer and director Jack Hill (Spider Baby) himself said it looked like suicide racing and what’s better than an all-American racing movie? A great love triangle, a living-on-the-edge story line and throw in the death defying racing which was actual footage he recorded. This cult classic stars acting legend Brian Donlevy in his last acting role as well as Dick Davalos (East of Eden), Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist), Sid Haig (Spider Baby), Beverly Washburn (Spider Baby) and her brother George Washburn. This movie was shot in black and white and this was the end of the black and white era. Jack Hill commented in an interview that he did that so the smoky race tracks could be better viewed and not look so clouded. Fun fact: actor Sid Haig plays a race champion but in actual reality, at that time he could not drive. Look sharp for Director Jack Hill in a bit role presenting a trophy and actor Titus Moede, an underground film maker, can be glimpsed twice in the same scene - a slight editing error which Hill laughed about later in an interview with Johnny Legend. Race fans will love this movie, after all what’s not to love about fast cars and hot women in this very entertaining film? A MAD movie indeed.