Car Movies » Greased Lightning http://carmovies.org Archive of tread burning car films Fri, 01 May 2009 20:58:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Greased Lightning http://carmovies.org/greased-lightning.html http://carmovies.org/greased-lightning.html#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:24:25 +0000 Hot Rod http://carmovies.org/?p=9 Greased Lightning is a 1977 biographical film, starring Richard Pryor, Beau Bridges and Pam Grier, and directed by Michael Schultz. Greased Lightning is a film loosely based on the true life story of Wendell Scott, the first African American stock car racing champion in the United States.

Synopsis

“Greased Lightning” is a film loosely based on the biography of Wendell Oliver Scott, the first black American stock-car racing champion. Richard Pryor is “Wendell Scott”, a taxi cab driver in post-World War II, who learns his craft for car racing by transporting illegal moonshine in the backwoods of Virginia. By the mid-1960s, he was a veteran driver who had won his battles with the white racetrack owners and police officers. Pam Grier is Mary Jones, Wendell Scott’s wife, and Beau Bridges is Wendell’s good friend and race-car driver. This movie was partially filmed in Winder, Georgia & Madison, Georgia.

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