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| Title: HELL DRIVERS Year: 1957 Rating: **** |
Cheating with the sped-up effect ala Keystone Cop films, the hauling-trucks for HELL DRIVERS picks up granite and races it back to the factory as quickly as possible... at breakneck speed taking neck-breaking curves... and newly hired ex-con Stanley Baker catches on that he's not very wanted... that is, the boss wants him fast, but not too fast...
And if you like breathing, you can NEVER beat the high score of antagonist Patrick McGoohan, looking like a severe, battered, modern-day pirate with a cocky grin behind the dangerous, risk-taking wheel...
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| Stanley Baker and Sean Connery in HELL DRIVERS |
His wild bunch underlings includes a young Sean Connery... and the only friend of Baker's square-jawed strong-silent-type is Italian romantic Herbert Lom, smitten with secretary Peggy Cummins, who's into the new guy instead...
The first half works best, before the action has reason to slow down during the personal feud between polar opposites. Once Baker keeps getting bullied like in a high school movie (unrealistic as he'd be able to clobber the skinny McGoohan), there's not much left but the usual fist fight and intentionally predictable truck chase...
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| Stanley Baker and David McCallum in HELL DRIVERS |
If only they'd stuck more on Baker vs McGoohan without all the after-hour parties, or the sullen background into Baker's family that features crippled bro David McCallum, who married Jill Ireland... a mousy waitress here... in real life...
The thing is, there's a only sparse amount of Noir-like intrigue during daylight hours at work, so the action (sped-up trucks) and drama (Baker vs corruption) should have remained much longer to flesh out what really matters... although what's here in HELL DRIVERS is genuinely idealistically tough enough to pay its own dues.
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| Patrick McGoohan in HELL DRIVERS |
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Patrick McGoohan in HELL DRIVERS with Sean Connery
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Stanley Baker in HELL DRIVERS with Jerry Stovin and Jill Ireland
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Stanley Baker in HELL DRIVERS with Peggy Cummins
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| William Hartnell in HELL DRIVERS |
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| Stanley Baker and Jill Ireland in HELL DRIVERS |
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| Hell Drivers trucking in fast motion |
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| Stanley Baker with Sean Connery in HELL DRIVERS |
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| Hell Drivers featuring Sean Connery and Jill Ireland... |
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Stanley Baker in HELL DRIVERS with Herbert Lom
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Stanley Baker in HELL DRIVERS with Peggy Cummins
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Stanley Baker in HELL DRIVERS with Patrick McGoohan
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Ken Richmond bangs the Rank gong for HELL DRIVERS
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| Opening Credits for HELL DRIVERS |
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| VistaVision Opening Credits for HELL DRIVERS |
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| DVD menu for HELL DRIVERS |
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Stanley Baker in HELL DRIVERS wih Sean Connery
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