Monday, October 31, 2016

1956 - CHECKPOINT, British racing film with a ridiculous plot.

To see this is to disbelieve this.  Probably one of the worst stories for a film that I have ever seen.  There are so many plot loopholes and coincidences that I could probably fill up two posts with the insanity of this film. The film has something to do with stealing the blue prints for a racing car smuggling a bad guy across the border during a race and substituting drivers I guess.

The film was directed by hack British director Ralph Thomas and produced by hack film producer Betty E. Box.  How these two had such a long career in the British film industry is a mystery to me.

 For a racing film the cars are kind of cool with featured footage of Lotus Mark 10 Aston Martin.


80 minutes screenplay by Robin Estridge.

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