Greased Lightning

Greased Lightning

Infobox_Film
name = Greased Lightning


imdb_id = 0076106
writer = Leon Capetanos
Lawrence DuKore
Melvin Van Peebles
Kenneth Vose
starring = Richard Pryor
Beau Bridges
Pam Grier
director = Michael Schultz
producer = Lester Berman
Hannah Weinstein
distributor = Warner Bros.
released = July 1, 1977
runtime = 96 min.
language = English
music =
awards =
budget =

"Greased Lightning" is a 1977 biographical film, starring Richard Pryor, Beau Bridges and Pam Grier, and directed by Michael Schultz. "Greased Lightning" is a film loosely based on the true life story of Wendell Scott, the first African American stock car racing champion in the United States.

ynopsis

"Greased Lightning" is a film loosely based on the biography of Wendell Oliver Scott, the first black American stock-car racing champion. Richard Pryor is "Wendell Scott", a taxi cab driver in post-World War II, who learns his craft for car racing by transporting illegal moonshine in the backwoods of Virginia. By the mid-1960s, he was a veteran driver who had won his battles with the white racetrack owners and police officers. Pam Grier is Mary Jones, Wendell Scott's wife, and Beau Bridges is Wendell's good friend and race-car driver. This movie was partially filmed in Winder, Georgia & Madison, Georgia.

Cast

*Richard Pryor — Wendell Scott
*Beau Bridges — Hutch
*Pam Grier — Mary Jones
*Cleavon Little — Peewee
*Vincent Gardenia — Sheriff Cotton
*Richie Havens — Woodrow
*Julian Bond — Russell
*Earl Hindman — Beau Welles
*Minnie Gentry — Wendell's Mother
*Lucy Saroyan — Hutch's Wife
*Noble Willingham — Billy Joe Byrnes
*Bruce Atkins — Deputy Turner
*Steve Fifield — Deputy Drinkwater
*Bill Cobbs — Mr. Jones
*Georgia Allen — Mrs. Jones

ee also

*NASCAR
*Stock car racing
*Wendell Scott

External links

*imdb title|id=0076106|title=Greased Lightning
*rotten-tomatoes|id=Greased_Lightning|title=Greased Lightning


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