Hell Drivers (film)
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| Hell Drivers | |
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 IMDB Image:3hv out of 5.png 6.8/10 (391 votes) |
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| Directed by | Cy Endfield |
| Written by | Cy Endfield, John Kruse |
| Starring | Stanley Baker, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, Sean Connery |
| Release date(s) | 1957 |
| Running time | 108 min. |
| Language | English |
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Hell Drivers is a 1957 film starring Stanley Baker, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, Herbert Lom, William Hartnell, Sid James, Jill Ireland, Alfie Bass, Gordon Jackson, David McCallum and, in a small role, Sean Connery.
The plot of Hell Drivers circles around Joe 'Tom' Yateley (Baker) who is an ex-convict. Trying to leave his past behind, he decides to starts working for the Hawlett Trucking company, which transports gravel. Trouble begins when he tries to expose his boss' rackets.
[edit] Trivia
- Patrick McGoohan, David McCallum and Sean Connery would all later find fame in the 1960s playing secret agents: McGoohan played John Drake in Danger Man and Number Six in The Prisoner, McCallum played Ilya Kuryakin in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Connery played James Bond in six official films and another unofficial one while William Hartnell is best known as being the first actor to play the Doctor in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
- This is the only film in which Irish actor Patrick McGoohan (C. "Red" Redman) plays an Irish character.
- David McCallum (Jimmy Yately) met his first wife Jill Ireland (Jill) during filming. They were married from May 11, 1957 to 1967.
- Many people in the Rhondda Fach can take pride from a line in the film uttered by Stanley Baker. When asked the name of his birthplace, he replied "Blaenllechau".
