The Fast and the Furious

1954

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 48% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 48% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 1724 1.7K

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Plot summary

A framed man escapes prison and takes a wealthy woman's Jaguar with her in it. After she tries to escape numerous times, they begin to develop feelings for each other, and enter a road race that ends in Mexico.

Director

John Ireland Photo
John Ireland

Top cast

Dorothy Malone Photo
Dorothy Malone as Connie Adair
Jonathan Haze Photo
Jonathan Haze as Connie's Rescuer
John Ireland Photo
John Ireland as Frank Webster
Iris Adrian Photo
Iris Adrian as Wilma Belding - Waitress
720p.WEB
667.8 MB
960*720
English 2.0
NR
us  
25 fps
1 hr 12 min
Seeds 19

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by funkyfry 5 / 10

AIP's first film: let loose the hounds of war!

Surprisingly solid production with an obviously very low budget (this was producer Corman's first film, I believe, and he is true to form). About a man on the run who kidnaps a lovely lady in a sports car. Of course, she falls in love with him when he gives her a picnic. Strictly stock footage and poor rear-projection for the race scenes. Some nice touches in the dialogue. It's actually surprising that this film emerges as watchable, but it even ends up being likeable. Well, it took me years to find it, but I can't say I ever expected it to be any good, so I guess I wasn't disappointed. First film for American International Pictures (then known as American Releasing Corporation or ARC, under the auspices of the infamous Alex Gordon, Jim Nicholson, and Sam Arkoff), whose only producers at that time were Gordon, Corman, and (eventually) Herman Cohen, if I got all the names right. Anyway, as most drive in fans know, these guys changed the world of movies, and I guess this little film is where it all started. Well, fast cars and girls in danger is a good film formula, so I guess they didn't pick a bad place to start off.
Reviewed by FyouGitive 6 / 10

Auto racing plays a part ...

This may be one of very few opportunities to see real racers in real race cars on a real - late and lamented - racetrack. Pebble Beach was an early Mecca for road racing fans, and while there are some discontinuities and incongruous events in the story, some of what is shown on-screen will be of value to motor sport historians, who should be able to identify the drivers and cars. As a novelty, perhaps, but valuable.John Ireland and Dorothy Malone went on to do some creditable work, and are not bad here, but to be honest, they don't have that much to work with. Not entirely a time-waster, at any rate.
Reviewed by whpratt1 5 / 10

Roger Corman B Film

Frank Webster, (John Ireland) is a truck driver and is accused of killing another truck driver by driving him off the road and John breaks out of jail and finds a diner to eat and meets up with Connie Adair, (Dorothy Malone). John's identity is questioned in the diner by a man and is very suspicious of him and John knocks him out and grabs Connie and takes off in her sports racing jaguar. Connie and Frank go for very speedy rides through out California to Mexico and they even enter a car race with the police following them all the way. Connie & Frank manage to get along after fighting with each other all the time and there eventually becomes a romantic relationship between the two of them. John Ireland was also the director of this film and Dorothy Malone looked very young and attractive and they both gave an outstanding performance in this black and white B Film by Roger Corman.
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