Thunder Alley

"Tell me, father dear, what's more important to you – the money or my life? ... Father, you have to think about it?" Looking for a job after an accident, stock car race driver Tommy Callahan (Fabian) comes across the Thrill Circus stunt show run by Pete Madsen (Jan Murray)…

Daniel

Purely pre-fabricated piece of entertainment manufacturing here. Pretty people, cheese comic & romance elements with a dash of 1960s' rebelliousness sprinkled all over a main course of stock car racing. It's not the type of film that revs my engine at all, but for what it…

Burrows

Mostly atrocious AIP pic feels less of a piece with the earlier beach movies starring Funicello and more like a hangover from same.   As to its place in the stock car racing movie firmament, I never thought anything could make me miss Elvis Presley and Bill Bixby in…

Will I Actually Like This Old Movie?

Rear Projection Theater Presents Thunder Alley. Middling beach movie gone slightly dramatic, moved to the racetrack, where stock footage is cheap and plentiful. Lots of cars getting destroyed, Fabian looking like Scared Seth Meyers in his helmet and goggles, Annette doing…

proofrock

Can we just take a moment to appreciate this poster? It’s truly a thing of beauty. The film, however, is not. It has promising elements, namely a really nice performance from Annette Funicello and some moments that just felt quite natural. I also liked that, though the…

Andrea

This uninspired drama has one-time heart-throb Fabian as a former driver who joins a low-rent stock-car circus after a blackout destroys his racing career. The way to get full enjoyment from Thunder Alley is to embrace its corniness, to laugh where you may just as easily…

Saint_Hooligan

More films should just stop in the middle and everyone has a wild, groovy party for ten minutes imo

Beav

It’s a stock car movie, then—for about 20 minutes in the middle—it’s a teen party movie, then it’s racing again.

Jackson

This is a typical Bikini Beach Movie except with more racing and stunts. The best parts of the movie are just the stock footage of real crashes in real races. The races themselves were very hard to follow as the only thing we got to understand the positions of the cars was…

Kakafuego