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      Silver Dream Racer

      PG 1980 1h 51m Action List
      Reviews 43% 50+ Ratings Audience Score An upstart British motorcycle racer (David Essex) rivals an American hotshot (Beau Bridges) with his brother's 500cc prototype. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Exciting...emotional. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member a motorcyclist inherits the prototype for a fast racing bike. quirky British drama. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member Struggling British motocycle racer uncovers a revolutionary prototype cycle in his late brother's garage and forges on against the big money teams to challenge at Silverstone. Nice to see Christina Raines here, I thought she was fine in Nightmares. A couple of sappy montages notwithstanding, this one features a familiar underdog story which usually works. Essex stars and also provides the music, the title track which was a Top 10 hit in the UK but failed to score (like the film itself) in America. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member "Roy of the Rovers" David takes on Goliath plot line. Its a howl from start to finish. Homemade bike takes on the big teams and beats them. You can play spot the cliche right down to the ludicrously OTT ending. Pretty much a vehicle for David Essex's limited talent, his pop career was over by now and he was trying to make it as an actor. He should have stuck to singing, as a singer he only sucked, as an actor he was truly appalling. Beau Bridges must look back at this and shudder. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member This starts off rather badly with a very obnoxious but well-funded and successful US racer (loosely based on Kenny Roberts?) and his poor but ambitious UK counterpart (loosely based on Barry Sheene?) who has an old Transit van and a day job in a regular garage. This general set up is rather lame, slightly unbelievable and so is much of the acting and dialogue for the first 2/3rds of the film. Anyway, once things pick up and the actual 'big race' gets under way, the film actually becomes quite exciting. For what looks very much like a 1970s film, some of the stunts are very good (but hardly shown) and every effort seems to have been made with the bikes & tracks. The ending came as a genuine surprise! A lot better than I expected it to be. 6.5/10 Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member the way bikes wer ment to be ) fast as feck 2 strokes with a slight himt of gastrol r in the air Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis An upstart British motorcycle racer (David Essex) rivals an American hotshot (Beau Bridges) with his brother's 500cc prototype.
      Director
      David Wickes
      Screenwriter
      Michael Billington, David Wickes
      Production Co
      The Rank Organisation
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      Action
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Sep 25, 2018
      Runtime
      1h 51m
      Sound Mix
      Surround
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