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From the rip-roaring car crash-o-rama Pit Stop. With an unknown actress named Ellen McRae, who wouldn't always be unknown. A few years later she started using the last name "Burstyn."

We rated one line:

Jolene: "What religion are you?"

Rick: "Don't have one. I believe when you're dead, you're dead."

Jolene: "I believe heaven is like a big island in the sky. Where you can make love all day long and never feel ashamed!"

Whew! Well, WTF. Blame the times - the movie was made in 1967 and finally escaped was released in 1969. "Rick" is played by Dick Davolos, a 10th-gen Xerox of Elvis Presley if you squint a lot. And "Jolene" is portrayed by Beverly Washburn, a sort of yard-sale Audrey Hepburn.

The flick was written, produced and directed by Jack Hill, who may have been advertising his own non-belief in the script.

It has lots of stock footage of wham-bam figure-8 racing, with classic Fifties cars being destroyed. And scenes shot at a junkyard on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. You sure won't see any junkyards in that neighborhood today. That would be about like finding a junkyard on Fifth Avenue.

Hill certainly had an eye for talent. He moved into blaxploitation flix after meeting a studio receptionist named Pam Grier. And later practically invented...er, cough, uh...single-handedly the whole "caged women" genre. e.g., "Switchblade Sisters" from 1975, starring Lenny Bruce's daughter Kitty.