Michael Sarrazin,
Norman Burton,
Gary Busey,
John Durren,
Susan Flannery
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For better or worse, The Gumball Rally was the catalyst for a short-lived cycle of "illegal cross-country race" flicks. As thick-headed cop Roscoe (Norman Burton) does his best to stop the titular ral... read more
DVD Release Date: August 30, 2005
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January 17, 2011This is one of those movies you find on accident and before you know what hit you (in this case, hit you at 180 miles per hour), you're watching a bizarrely hilarious film from the 70's that should be awful. Basically, it was Cannonball Run before Cannonball Run and it has Raul J... read more
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January 3, 2011One of the first of the cross country illegal car racing movies. Like most of them, there is a big cast, and a bunch of stars, and the movie is very funny for the most part. It also has it's unfunny parts, though.
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September 25, 2009I loved this as a kid but the premise has been spoilt now by evil rich kids.
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October 10, 2006This movie I haven't seen since I bought the DVD this year. It's really hilarious and outrageous illegal road race. Whoo! And a silent moustache motorcyclist is heaps of funny in his accidents.
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November 14, 2011This is the original movie based on the real cross country car races that took place in the 1970's after Nixon implemented the 55 mile per hour speed limit. This movie came out in 1976 just before the gasoline shortages. The 55 MPH speed limit started after the 1973 Arab Oil Em... read more
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March 13, 2008Raul Julia is racing fool with an eye for beautiful women......before there was the cannanball run.....it was GUMBALL........great fun film!!!!
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September 13, 2007A real 427 Shelby Cobra, Ferrari Daytona V-12, a 600+ Camaro, a Kawasaki race bike & more compete in this cool secret car race across the States. Three engines were used in the Cobra alone as two of them blew up from the abuse this movie pushed on them. The vehicle recordings o... read more
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June 3, 2007An all out, no holes bared race from New York City to Long Beach, California just for bragging rights, and they don't make 'em like this one, anymore, when cars were cheap and gas was cheaper, and everything was filmed on location!. . .
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May 27, 2007I saw this movie when I was a kid at the drive-in. I have wanted a Cobra ever since. Great fun movie about a true story. Beauty Linda Vaughn makes an apprearance. Rest in peace "Smitty".
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April 16, 2007I love it when I was little girl. It was my fifth time to watch this movie...will be more later. enjoy!
Critic Reviews
May 5, 2008
Variety Staff, Variety
May 9, 2005
Richard Eder, New York Times
People who pay money to see this effort to find knee-slappers in the 55 mile-an-hour speed limit will also make amiable fools of themselves. Full Review
October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Although we are all going to have the greatest difficulty even remembering the name of The Gumball Rally in three months' time, it is a pleasant, slick, inoffensive entertainment. Full Review
May 5, 2008
TV Guide's Movie Guide
One of many coast-to-coast car-race films indistinguishable from the others. Full Review
June 24, 2006
Time Out
It relies almost exclusively on the exceptional stunt work, the plot only occasionally dropping into first gear for some boring and irrelevant dramatic stuff. Full Review
April 25, 2006
Shane Burridge, rec.arts.movies.reviews
The cars are the stars
February 18, 2007
Jake Euker, F5 (Wichita, KS)
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April 4, 2006
Jeffrey Westhoff, Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
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August 17, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
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