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  1. Fast Company (1979) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

  2. Fast Company: Directed by David Cronenberg. With William Smith, Claudia Jennings, John Saxon, Nicholas Campbell. After his sponsor replaces him with his arch rival, a race-car driver decides to steal the car and race it himself.

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    • Drama, Sport
    • David Cronenberg
  3. Synopsis. Strap yourself into a car that flies 240 miles an hour down a quarter mile track. An over the hill drag racer finds himself considering retirement and ceding the spotlight to his protégé and targeted for replacement by the oil-company executive who sponsors his team. Remove Ads. Cast.

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    • David Cronenberg
  4. Sep 11, 2009 · Filmed in 1978 between his early horror hits Rabid and The Brood and barely released in the U.S. due to a distribution dispute, Fast Company languished for decades until it was resurrected by the Blue Underground video label in 2004. Reissued in a superior Blu-ray edition, this highly enjoyable film can now be appreciated for what it is: a good, low-budget B-movie that Cronenberg made to gain ...

  5. The fact is that “Fast Company” is so readily accessible for those simply wanting some B-movie fun rather than the thought provoking and heavy handed “body-horror” that Cronenberg was focusing on and that reached it’s peak with “Videodrome” (1983) and his reworking of “The Fly” (1986). Some others say he topped himself with ...

  6. Overview. An over the hill drag racer finds himself considering retirement and ceding the spotlight to his protégé and targeted for replacement by the oil-company executive who sponsors his team. David Cronenberg. Director, Screenplay.

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  8. William Smith, who plays Lucky Lonnie, a drag-strip racer in David Cronenberg's Fast Company, is a personification of country singer Waylon Jennings' voice: powerful and rich and funky and gentle. He doesn't hold Fast Company together - a vise the size of Paraguay couldn't hold Fast Company together - but his presence gives the movie an entirely undeserved distinction.

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