Fast Company (1979) on Netflix
Lonnie 'Lucky Man' Johnson races a dragster for Fast Company. Team boss Phil Adamson pulls Lonnie's protégé, Billy 'The Kid' Brocker, from the Funny Car and puts Lonnie in it.
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Plot summary
Lonnie 'Lucky Man' Johnson is an aging drag racing star. He drives a dragster sponsored by the oil company Fast Company and works on the engine himself. On a test run the car blows up and Lonnie walks away unhurt. Team boss Phil Adamson tells Elder that the team cannot afford a win that breaks the budget. In the Funny Car class, Lonnie's protégé, Billy 'The Kid' Brocker, gives Gary 'The Blacksmith' Black a close race. Because the fans come to see Lonnie, Adamson puts him in Billy's Funny Car while the dragster is repaired.
Cast
- Judy Fosteras Candy
- David Grahamas Stoner
- Chuck Chandleras Edmonton Track Announcer
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Fast Company (1979)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Fast Company could have had a Bruce Springsteen soundtrack: Michael Lebowitz wanted Springsteen to compose the music, but Fred Mollin was chosen for the job instead.
- Fast Company was the last film of actress Claudia Jennings, who was killed in a car accident later that year, seven months after the film came out.
- Fast Company was the first film David Cronenberg made that he had not originally written, although he did rewrite parts of the script.
- While making Fast Company, Cronenberg met Carol Spier, Mark Irwin, Ronald Sanders and Bryan Day, and went on working with them for much of his filmography.
