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Seen it a good few times and also have it on DVD, but still watched it again tonite....

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Recorded it and watched it. It's actually a very good film, and a very impressive cast.

A couple of things I noticed. Nice bit of product placement by Ex-Lax, and Bill Fox being a rubbish team rider.

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Silly ending, though. Bill proves he is still a top rider by beating the latest wonder boy, dreams of being world champion in 1946, 47, and on ... then the stupid bugger gives it up for a woman!

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there is another film about Speedway that hardly ever gets a mention and that is the 1951 film "There is another sun" It s about a wall of death rider who competes at the local speedway track to wine a top individual prize. It stars Maxwell Reed as Racer the wall of death rider trying to get a bike to compete at the meeting Laurence Harvey and Susan Shaw also starred and directed by Lewis Gilbert who found  further fame directing James Bond films

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17 minutes ago, mickthemuppet said:

there is another film about Speedway that hardly ever gets a mention and that is the 1951 film "There is another sun" It s about a wall of death rider who competes at the local speedway track to wine a top individual prize. It stars Maxwell Reed as Racer the wall of death rider trying to get a bike to compete at the meeting Laurence Harvey and Susan Shaw also starred and directed by Lewis Gilbert who found  further fame directing James Bond films

Susan Shaw was married to Bonar Colleano, who was in Once a Jolly Swagman.

There's a clip of this on youtube showing a wall of death ride.

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Speedway was shown I believe in the TV adaptation of The Avenue Story in the seventies . 

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1 hour ago, adonis said:

haha  thats what i like about old films . realism ,   how many people do everybody know ,who give it up or have their chances of reaching the very top thwarted by the advent of a girlfriend . take a look at the national league pits , almost every kid has a clingon airhead accompanying them , and pay more attention  to them than they do getting on with the job

Saw one in Perry Barr pits, tattoos up her thighs, now in pup ...

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