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Fast Charlie, the Moonbeam Rider (1978)

Director: Steve Carver

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From Time Out Film Guide

Corman and Carradine teamed up again for yet another version of the coast-to-coast race with no holds barred. This time it's 1919 and motor-cycles, not cars as in Death Race 2000. Not just a straightforward win-or-bust movie, it often goes for laughs with its miraculously injury-free carnage, and demonstrates how the scorn of a good woman can make an honest man out of free-wheelin' Charlie, ex-army dispatch rider and conman extraordinaire.

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Cast & crew

Director: Steve Carver

Producer: Roger Corman

Cast: David Carradine, Brenda Vaccaro, LQ Jones, RG Armstrong, Terry Kiser, Jesse Vint, Noble Willingham full cast

Genre(s): Action/Adventure

Duration: 99 mins


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