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MEET THE SPEED BREED! Hollywood legend Howard Hawks (The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo) floors the accelerator in Red Line 7000, a late career treat that gave James Caan (The Godfather, Rollerball) his first starring role and would later be an influence on Quentin Tarantino. Overnight fame, overnight fortune, and any-night girls, the men of Banjo Baker's racing team press 'em all to the limit in this story of three ambitious young drivers trying to make their names in the thrilling world of stock-car racing. It's a dangerous life for the drivers and the women who love them. In the red zone beyond 7000 RPM the engine might blow, but it's the only way to win. Shot by Milton R. Krasner (All About Eve) with a screenplay by George Kirgo (Spinout) and a supporting cast that includes Charlene Holt (El Dorado), Marianna Hill (High Plains Drifter), and a pre-Star Trek George Takei, Red Line 7000 features pulse-pounding scenes of real life racing and crashes that will take your breath away.

Media

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Bonus Materials

• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
• Original lossless mono audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Audio commentary by Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman
• Bruce Kessler: Man in Motion, a new interview with assistant director Bruce Kessler
• Gas, Gears, Girls, Guys & Death, a new visual essay on the film by filmmaker and critic Howard S. Berger
• A Modern Type of Woman, a new visual essay on the “Hawksian Woman” in Red Line 7000 by film scholar Kat Ellinger
• Image gallery of posters, lobby cards, and stills
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sam Hadley
• Double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sam Hadley
• Illustrated collector’s booklet containing new writing by film critic Martyn Conterio

Sales Points

• Shot on legendary NASCAR tracks: Daytona, Charlotte, Darlington, Ascot, and Riverside
• Launched the careers of James Caan (before THE GODFATHER) and George Takei (before STAR TREK)
• Recognized by Cahiers du Cinema as one of the Year's Ten Best Films
• RED LINE 7000's Stunt Drivers are a veritable Who's Who of the NASCAR Hall of Fame

Press Quotes

Quentin Tarantino sings its praises, and French film critic/director Francois Truffaut so loved it that, a dozen years later when he appeared as an actor in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, he instantly recognized Teri Garr, not for her '70s comedies but for her unbilled extra role as one of four dancing waitresses in Red Line 7000

     — Stuart Galbraith IV, DVD Talk

Love triangles, fast driving, and car crashes abound in this fluffy later-life Howard Hawks film

     —FilmFanatic.org

The stock car races are thrilling... with great fiery spinouts and crashes so seamlessly interwoven into the storyline you'll swear the real actors are in the wrecks

     —Erich Kuersten, Acidemic Journal of Film and Media

About half of Red Line 7000 consists of real footage of apparently suicidal stock-car racing in America... For all its no-nonsense masculinity, Hawksian cinema has always been very stylized

     —Andrew Sarris, Village Voice