Girl loves hot cars and a rich dragstrip racer. Her parents don't like either one.Girl loves hot cars and a rich dragstrip racer. Her parents don't like either one.Girl loves hot cars and a rich dragstrip racer. Her parents don't like either one.
Steven Terrell
- Jim Donaldson
- (as Steve Terrell)
Paul Blaisdell
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaIn August 1957, this film was being shown on a double bill with another American International film targeting the teen market, Rock All Night (1957).
- Quotes
Tommy Burns: [singing] She's my Dragstrip Girl with a streamlined chassis Got a set of pipes and a grille that's classy - Dragstrip Baby Flip a switch and she'll start to go Her motor starts a-sparkin and she can't say no - Dragstrip Baby She's my Dragstrip Girl with a fuel-injection blast She may not have a future, but I'll see she gets a past! Dragstrip Baby of mi-i-ine...
- ConnectionsFeatured in It Came from Hollywood (1982)
Featured review
In Fay Spain's big-screen debut, she's a girl who loves fast cars and one of two boys: either Steven Terrell, the son of a bricklayer who has built his hot rod part by part, or John Ashley, son of the richest man in town, who has had everything given to him, but feels like he's in competition with Terrell for everything. Miss Spain is not sure which. But as the big drag race is coming up and Ashley buys his own drag car and "borrows" Terrell's so he'll know what the competition can do, she's going to decide before the end of the movie.
Director Edward Cahn will return to this theme with his two male leads in the future, but for now he's telling the bare story without much ornamentation or subtext. Grazia Narciso and Tito Vuolo are on hand as the pizza shop owners where the kids hang out for some comic relief, and Frank Gorshin and Tommy Ivo are also drag-racing kids. In many ways, it looks like the precursor to the beach movies that AIP would produce in the 1960s.
Director Edward Cahn will return to this theme with his two male leads in the future, but for now he's telling the bare story without much ornamentation or subtext. Grazia Narciso and Tito Vuolo are on hand as the pizza shop owners where the kids hang out for some comic relief, and Frank Gorshin and Tommy Ivo are also drag-racing kids. In many ways, it looks like the precursor to the beach movies that AIP would produce in the 1960s.
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- Also known as
- La chica de las carreras
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- Budget
- $100,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 9 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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