{"id":4178,"date":"2018-03-29T01:36:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T01:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2018-03-29T01:36:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T01:36:56","slug":"50-years-ago-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/29\/50-years-ago-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Years Ago Yesterday&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/bb543322000313cce921907747a97094.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4179\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/bb543322000313cce921907747a97094-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Wild Racers<\/em> <\/strong>opened starring Fabian and Mimsy Farmer. He is arrogant race car driver Joe Joe Quillico who calls himself \u201cJoe Joe Quillico, King of the Hillico. They call me Joe Joe, because I have the mojo.\u201d After being banned from NASCAR racing in the U.S. due to an accident he caused, he has moved abroad to compete in Formula One and sports car prototype racing on the European Grand Prix circuit. She is a tourist who hooks up with him and follows from race to race.<\/p>\n<p>This was the only film Mimsy Farmer did for AIP that was not a hit with the drive-in crowd. Though featuring great racing sequences comparable to <em>Grand Prix<\/em> and <em>Le Mans<\/em>, the film directed by Daniel Haller may have been too artsy for the typically teenage and drive-in audience. The quick edits and off-camera conversations over nicely shot racing footage may have been bit much for them. However, this stylized approach is what makes the movie way above average. It is also buoyed by the interesting mix of French pop songs by Pierre Vassiliu with a bouncy music score by Mike Curb, and from the fine performances from the two leads. Fabian, who with his boyish looks, makes Joe Joe likable despite his self-centered attitude and Mimsy Farmer, with her short hair worn in a small pony tail, is adorably sweet and innocent as the girl who almost tames him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wildracerscard5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4180\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wildracerscard5-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Read more about Mimsy Farmer in my BearManor Media book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Talking-Sixties-Drive-Movies-Lisanti\/dp\/1593939981\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1522287172&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=talking+sixties\"><em><strong>Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wild Racers opened starring Fabian and Mimsy Farmer. He is arrogant race car driver Joe Joe Quillico who calls himself \u201cJoe Joe Quillico, King of the Hillico. They call me Joe Joe, because I have the mojo.\u201d After being banned from NASCAR racing in the U.S. due to an accident he caused, he has moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}