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Attempting to get those hot rodders off the street, Lt Ben Merill
(Chuck Connors) opens a drag strip and enlists the help of good girl Lisa
(Lori Nelson) and young mechanic Jeff (John Smith) - the guy those
youngsters listen to - to attract the young crowd keep all their hot
rodding clean and safe. But then Jeff's own younger brother Steve (Del
Erickson) has himself lured into a streetrace and is killed in the process
- and Jeff was even with him in the car. At this point, something breaks
in Jeff, and it doesn't help a bit either that the local chief of police
(Russell Thorson) makes him responsible for his brother's crash and has
his driving license revoked.
From that point on, Jeff neglects his friends, especially Lisa whom
he's (naturally) romantically involved with and tries to keep himself
distracted by work. Jeff's friends meanwhilestart to behave more and more
irresponsible with him no more around and take the hot rodding from the
dragstrip to the street again - and the whole istuation is not helped at
all when Bronc, a young troublemaker, moves into the neighbourhood ...
Soon enough, he has one of Jeff's friends (Frank Gorshin) coaxed into a
chicken race, and soon too, the police is after the young hot rodders
again.
Of course Lt Merrill knows exactly that most of the problems can
attributed to Bronc, who tries to take over the place of the youngsters'
leader that Jeff left vacant, so Merrill finally persuades Jeff to return
to the dragstrip and even gives him his driver's license back, while he
somehow sets Bronc up to lose face at the dragstrip - which Bronc doesn't
like one bit, so on the way home from the dragstrip, he coaxes Jeff into a
streetrace during which a boy on a bicycle is killed ... and all the
evidence points at Jeff having done it - at first, but Merrill soon has
second thoughts and confronts Bronc once more - which ends in Bronc
hitting the policeman over the head with a bottle ... but luckily, Jeff
has seen the incidence and now he can give Bronc the deserved beating he
has been asking for since he moved here. And since he has attacked Lt
Merrill, he has actually admitted to being guilty of having murdered the
boy, so Jeff is in the clear and he, Lisa and Merrill will work at the
dragstrip again ...
Rather conservative hot rod flick, obviously made on the cheap and
featuring mainly wooden actors ... still, as a piece of (drive-in)
nostalgia the film works just fine - though don't expect any masterpiece.
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