As a result, in this adaptation, Rex does not destroy the car he drove for Pops (the Mach 4) and is portrayed as a reckless and cheating corporate driver responsible for numerous crashes before being killed at the entrance of the Ice Caves in the Casa Cristo cross country race.
Speed finds out that Racer X is his long lost brother near the end of the series in "The Trick Race".
As a child, Speed idolized his record-setting older brother, Rex Racer, who was apparently killed while racing in the Casa Cristo 5000, a deadly cross-country rally race.
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In its original Japanese version "Mach Go Go Go," Speed Racer was called Go Mifune, named in honor of legendary Japanese actor Toshirô Mifune. This is why he sports a G on his shirt.
Shooting StarShooting Star, is Racer X's yellow and black racing car that apparently has no special features, like the Mach Five. However, Racer X's exceptional driving abaility seems to have no need of anything but a powerful car; he can do the rest. He's Speed's biggest competitor and supporter.
Trixie Tredwell Racer is the wife of Speed Racer Sr., and the mother of X and Speed Jr. She is the sister-in-law of Spritle and Rex Racer.
To get to Mach 6, Lockheed's Skunk Works lab — which has developed such luminaries as the U-2, SR-71, F-22, and F-35 — is working with Aerojet Rocketdyne to create a turbojet/scramjet hybrid engine that uses a turbine at low speeds, and a scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) at higher speeds.
Three direct-to-video films in the series were then released: Death Race 2 (2010), Death Race 3: Inferno (2013) and Death Race: Beyond Anarchy (2018).
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E.P. Arnold Royalton is the main antagonist of the 2008 sports action comedy film Speed Racer. He owns Royalton Industries and is a fierce competitor of many companies, one of them being Togokhan Motors.
Go MifuneIn the series, Speed's full name was Go Mifune, in homage to Japanese film star Toshiro Mifune. His name, Americanized, became Speed Racer.
TrixieTrixie often flies around in a helicopter during a race, acting as Speed's spotter, a function she also serves in the live-action movie version during the Casa Cristo 5000.
Trixie Tredwell Racer is the wife of Speed Racer Sr., and the mother of X and Speed Jr. She is the sister-in-law of Spritle and Rex Racer.
In the year 2000--against the backdrop of social turmoil, political unrest, and rampant anarchy--a now-totalitarian United States of America supports a brutal annual event to pacify the masses: the infamous Transcontinental Road Race.
Explaining why he took the Frankenstein role, David Carradine says, "I started that picture two weeks after I walked off the " Kung Fu (1972) " set, and that was essentially my image, the 'Kung Fu' character, and a lot of people still believe I'm that guy. The idea actually was: No.
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By what name was Death Race 2000 (1975) officially released in India in English?
The story starts in a countryside mansion when the elderly lord of the mansion and others begin to get ready for a hunt. While chasing the fox, his horse refuses to jump of a fence and hurl him flying over the fence. The old man is then transferred to his bed when he is spending the last few hours of his life.
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The film used Santa Anita Park as a filming location for some of the racetrack scenes.
A Day at the Races. (film) A Day at the Races is a 1937 American comedy film, and the seventh film starring the Marx Brothers, with Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan and Margaret Dumont. Like their previous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature A Night at the Opera, this film was a major hit.
During production, Irving Thalberg, who had brought the Marx Brothers to MGM, died suddenly in September, 1936 of pneumonia at the age of 37. Thalberg's death left the Marxes without a champion at MGM, and the studio never gave the same level of care and attention to the team they had received under Thalberg.
Groucho's character was originally named "Quackenbush" but was changed to "Hackenbush" over threats of lawsuits by several real doctors named Quackenbush. In My Life with Groucho: A Son's Eye View, Arthur Marx relates that in his later years, Groucho increasingly referred to himself by the name Hackenbush.
Knowing that Hi-Hat is afraid of Morgan, everyone works to make Hi-Hat aware of his presence before reaching the fence. On the last lap, Hi-Hat and Morgan's horse wipe out; when they reach the finish line, it appears that Morgan's horse has won. Stuffy realizes that the mud-covered horses were switched after the accident, and Morgan's jockey was riding Hi-Hat in the finish, thus making Hi-Hat the winner. The black folk arrive at the race and start walking with Gil, Judy, Hackenbush, Tony and Stuffy through the racetrack, all singing the final number.
Running time. 109 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. A Day at the Races is a 1937 American comedy film, and the seventh film starring the Marx Brothers, with Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan and Margaret Dumont. Like their previous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature A Night at the Opera, this film was a major hit.
The following day, just as Mrs. Upjohn is about to sign an agreement to help Judy, Whitmore brings in the eminent Dr. Leopold X. Steinberg from Vienna, whom he hopes will expose Hackenbush. After Mrs. Upjohn agrees to an examination by Steinberg, Hackenbush wants to flee for fear of being exposed; Gil, Tony and Stuffy remind him that Judy still needs his help and persuade him to stay.
Speed Racer is a 2008 sports action comedy film written and directed by the Wachowskis. It is based on the 1960s manga and anime series of the same name. Starring Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox, Roger Allam, Benno Fürmann, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rain and Richard Roundtree, the plot revolves around Speed Racer, an 18-year-old automobile racer who follows his apparently deceased brother's career, choosing to remain loyal to his family and their company Racer Motors, which causes difficulties after he refuses a contract that E.P. Arnold Royalton, owner of Royalton Industries, offers him.
Speed Racer was shot in and around Potsdam and Berlin from June to August 2007. Michael Giacchino composed the film's score. Speed Racer premiered on April 26, 2008 at the Nokia Theater, followed by its general theatrical release on May 9, 2008, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film grossed $93 million worldwide on a $120 million budget, ...
Royalton takes out his anger on Speed by having his drivers force Speed into a crash that destroys the Mach 6 and suing Racer Motors for intellectual property infringement. Speed gets an opportunity to retaliate through Inspector Detector, head of an intelligence agency's corporate crimes division.
During its production, animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) made allegations of animal cruelty against the film, reporting that one of the two chimpanzees used in the production was allegedly beaten after biting a child actor. The incident was confirmed by the American Humane Association (AHA) Animal Safety Representative on the set, who reported that the stand-in for the Spritle character portrayed by Litt had been bitten without provocation. The AHA representative also reported that "toward the end of filming, during a training session in the presence of the American Humane Representative, the trainer, in an uncontrolled impulse, hit the chimpanzee." The AHA Film Unit referred to this abuse as "completely inexcusable and unacceptable behavior in the use of any animal." The AHA placed Speed Racer on their "Unacceptable" list chiefly because of this incident, with AHA noting "the aforementioned training incident tarnishes the excellent work of the rest of production" and that it "has no method of separating the actions of one individual in the employ of a production from the production as a whole."
Though tempted, Speed declines because his father distrusts power-hungry corporations. Angered, Royalton reveals that for many years, key races have been fixed by corporate interests, including himself, to gain profits. Royalton takes out his anger on Speed by having his drivers force Speed into a crash that destroys the Mach 6 and suing Racer Motors for intellectual property infringement. Speed gets an opportunity to retaliate through Inspector Detector, head of an intelligence agency's corporate crimes division. Racer Taejo Togokahn supposedly has evidence that could indict Royalton but will only offer it up if Speed and the mysterious masked Racer X agree to race on his team in the Casa Cristo 5000, which could also substantially raise the stock price of his family's racing business, blocking a Royalton-arranged buyout. Speed agrees but keeps his decision secret from his family, and Detector's team makes several defensive modifications to the Mach 5 to assist Speed in the rally.
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 41% approval rating based on 217 reviews, with an average rating of 5.2/10. The website's critics consensus says "Overloaded with headache-inducing special effects, Speed Racer finds the Wachowskis focused on visual thrills at the expense of a coherent storyline". Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 37 out of 100 based on 37 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.
Speed Racer is an 18-year-old whose life and love has always been automobile racing. His parents Pops and Mom run the independent Racer Motors, in which his brother Spritle and his pet chimp Chim Chim, his mechanic Sparky and his girlfriend Trixie are also involved. As a child Speed idolized his record-setting older brother, Rex Racer, who was apparently killed while racing in the Casa Cristo 5000 (AKA The Crucible) a deadly cross-country racing rally. Now embarking on his own career, Speed is quickly sweeping the racing world with his skill behind the wheel of his brother's Mach 5 and his own T-180 car the Mach 6, although primarily interested in the art of the race and the well-being of his family.
Zombie maestro George Romero turns his sights to the living in this tale of a town infected by a biological agent that drives the residents insane. Unlike the remake, this Vietnam-era film is full of political commentary, focusing largely on the military's behind-the-scenes strategizing to curtail the spread of the disease—at the expense of human casualties.
The Grapes of Death (1978) Perhaps the most accessible of French erotic horror director Jean Rollin's films, "The Grapes of Death" tells the story of a small French town whose residents are turned into homicidal maniacs by a pesticide sprayed on the local grapes. It's surprisingly well-paced and relatively action-packed for a Rollin pic, ...
The next time you find yourself complaining about a cold, remember that there are plenty of worse things you could catch—at least if you happen to be in a horror movie. From the flesh-eating virus in "Cabin Fever" to the deadly prehistoric parasites in "The Thaw," the terrors in the movies below are as frightening as anything the imagination can conjure.
The riveting Japanese film "Kansen" ("Infection") plays a bit like "Assault on Precinct 13" meets "Cabin Fever," as the staff of a neglected, understaffed, out-of-the-way hospital reluctantly takes in a patient infected with a disease that turns you crazy before melting your organs into a green ooze. The workers struggle to deal with the contagion while trying to cover up a botched operation that could cost them their jobs.
In this low-budget yet thrilling early feature from David Cronenberg that combines apocalyptic mayhem with a social statement about the sexual promiscuity of the '70s, a mad doctor creates a slug-like parasite that's a combination aphrodisiac and venereal disease and releases it on the residents of a Canadian high-rise.
Something of a precursor to "Resident Evil" and "28 Days Later," this overlooked chiller with an impressive cast (Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan, Yaphet Kotto) takes place in a government facility that's locked down after an experimental virus contaminates the workers, turning them into rage-filled maniacs.
Whereas the original took the story of a small town driven crazy by a biological weapon and treated it with a message-heavy anti-establishment tone, the remake is more action-oriented, focusing mainly on the front-line struggles of the townspeople to fight off the infected.
The film went through numerous outlines, treatments, drafts, revisions and a total of eighteen different scripts before arriving at its final version. A major portion of the final screenplay was written by Al Boasberg who also contributed to A Night at the Opera, but due to a bitter disagreement with MGM, he chose not to be given any credit for his work. As they had with A Night at the Opera, t…
The Standish Sanitarium, owned by Judy Standish, has fallen on hard times. Banker J.D. Morgan, who owns a nearby race track, hotel and nightclub, holds the mortgage on the sanitarium and is attempting to purchase it in order to convert the building into a casino. Judy's faithful employee Tony, suggests asking financial help from the wealthy patient Mrs. Emily Upjohn, who is a hypochondriac. After being pronounced healthy by the sanitarium's doctor's, Mrs. Upjohn threate…
• Groucho Marx as Dr Hugo Z. Hackenbush
• Chico Marx as Tony
• Harpo Marx as Stuffy
• Allan Jones as Gil Stewart
The songs in the film, by Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann, and Gus Kahn, are "On Blue Venetian Waters", "Tomorrow Is Another Day", and "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (featuring Ivie Anderson from Duke Ellington's orchestra). Two other songs were slated for the film, but ultimately cut . One, "Dr. Hackenbush", sung by Groucho about "what a great doctor he is" ("No matter what I treat them for they die from something else") was performed on the pre-filming tour, but was apparently ne…