Hot Rod Rumble

1957
1h 19m

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Arny joins a hot rod club, but his eccentric mannerisms (a Marlon Brando rip-off performance from "The Wild One" by look-alike Hartunian) make him unpopular. At a party, Terry rebukes him fo... Read allArny joins a hot rod club, but his eccentric mannerisms (a Marlon Brando rip-off performance from "The Wild One" by look-alike Hartunian) make him unpopular. At a party, Terry rebukes him for his coarseness and centers her attention on another boy. A fight between the two men is ... Read allArny joins a hot rod club, but his eccentric mannerisms (a Marlon Brando rip-off performance from "The Wild One" by look-alike Hartunian) make him unpopular. At a party, Terry rebukes him for his coarseness and centers her attention on another boy. A fight between the two men is stopped by Jim Lawrence, but Ray Johnson, pretending friendship with Arny, keeps the antag... Read all

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The producers claimed that 90 per cent of the cast were under 23 years of age.

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Referenced in Death Scenes 2 (1992)

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4/10

"OH LORD, PLEASE DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD!"

Pedestrian, ironically, "Hot Rod" effort, in which a rebel, without cause, is accused of murdering a fellow Road Devil car club member over the usual blonde in the tight sweater who was, she says, "Just a-flirtin'"--the girl can't help it. If you've seen a single road race movie you could write this script. Acting subpar to bad, save the little bright spot of a character performance by the junkyard man who finally breaks down and allows our rebel to raid his yard for parts and use a corner of it to rebuild his rod and get back his good name, or at least win the race contest prize money and blow this town without pity..

unmemorable