Two race car drivers get caught up in a moonshine operation while competing for titles and women.Two race car drivers get caught up in a moonshine operation while competing for titles and women.Two race car drivers get caught up in a moonshine operation while competing for titles and women.
Douglas Henderson
- Jack Hastings
- (as Doug Henderson)
Maria McBane
- Leander Fan
- (as Marie McBane)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe "Fireball 500" is a heavily customized 1966 Plymouth Barracuda, with a 273 V-8 engine.
- GoofsAt the end of the Daytona race, both drivers swerve around crashed 1950s cars. But the main race shots were filmed in the mid-1960s with no older cars in any footage. Then Leander Fox's car, which was a mid-1960s blue and white Plymouth, becomes an early 1960s car in monotone blue as he crashes over the guardrail.
- Quotes
Jane Harris: Is Dave in trouble?
Sonny Leander Fox: Yeah, I think so.
Jane Harris: This may sound like a foolish feminine question but why don't you help him?
Sonny Leander Fox: I can't. He's doing it to himself.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Love Bug (1969)
- SoundtracksFireball 500
Words and music by Guy Hemric and Jerry Styner
Performed by Frankie Avalon (uncredited)
[Dave sings the song over the opening credits; reprise at the end of the end credits]
Featured review
I Was Surprised
Frankie Avalon is a stock car racer and that's all he wants to be. Caught between two women, strait-laced Annette Funicello and sex-obsessed Julie Parrish, he has other problems: arrogant Fabian, competitor on the track and for Funicello; moonshiner Harvey Lembeck, who wants him to run for him; and a couple of revenue agents who threaten him with six months in prison for the one run he unwittingly did unless he helps them put away Lembeck. Plus someone is trying to kill him.
Not all of these issues are resolved, but those that are are done so in a surprising and interesting way. It wasn't the shoddy goods I expected when I saw William Asher directed and co-wrote, but kept my attention all the way through. Even Lembeck, in a straight role, is good, and the attitudes on view are not those of men who grew up under the Production Code.
Not all of these issues are resolved, but those that are are done so in a surprising and interesting way. It wasn't the shoddy goods I expected when I saw William Asher directed and co-wrote, but kept my attention all the way through. Even Lembeck, in a straight role, is good, and the attitudes on view are not those of men who grew up under the Production Code.
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- boblipton
- Jul 20, 2023
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- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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