The Gumball Rally

The Gumball Rally

Infobox Film
name = The Gumball Rally


caption = 1976 movie poster
director = Charles Bail
producer = Charles Bail
writer = Leon Capetanos
Charles Bail
starring = Michael Sarrazin
Norman Burton
Raul Julia
Gary Busey
Susan Flannery
Steven Keats
Tim McIntire
Joanne Nail
J. Pat O'Malley
Nicholas Pryor
music = Dominic Frontiere
cinematography = Richard C. Glouner
editing =
distributor = Warner Bros.
released = August 201976
runtime = 105 min.
country = U.S.
awards =
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id = 1:21104
imdb_id = 0074597

"The Gumball Rally" is a 1976 film about a coast-to-coast road race. It was inspired by the actual Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash run held by Brock Yates that inspired several other movies, such as "Cannonball" with David Carradine, also from 1976. While "Cannonball" is an action film, "The Gumball Rally" is a comedy, like the later series of Cannonball-based movies starring Burt Reynolds.

The Gumball Rally stars Raul Julia, Michael Sarrazin, Norman Burton, Gary Busey, John Durran, Tim McIntire, and Susan Flannery, and was directed and co-written by Chuck Bail.

Trivia

*With the exceptions of the opening scenes of the race in downtown New York City and the finale in Los Angeles, the movie was filmed in Arizona.

*The saga of the Jaguar-that-wouldn't-start is an interesting one: At first, the producers were going to have the 2 sexy girls in the Porsche 911 driving a Jaguar E-Type. Jaguar's PR people, however, didn't want a Jaguar being used in the movie and were reportedly very matter-of-fact about it. So, as a bit of an "up yours" to Jaguar's PR staff, they instead had the 2 girls drive a Porsche and used a Jaguar anyway as a running joke throughout the race as the car that wouldn't start, and its 2 drivers are clueless as to how to get it running.

*The Mercedes-Benz 300SL driven by the 2 elderly men belonged to director Chuck Bail.

*The cars are really going 100mph+ through New York City. It was filmed early on a Sunday with the streets closed briefly.

ee also

*Gumball 3000

External links

*imdb title| id=0074597 | title=The Gumball Rally
*amg title | id=1:21104 | title=The Gumball Rally
* [http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=StreetSuperCars&search_query=streetsupercars+gumball&search=Search Gumball Videos] YouTube.com


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