Stock Car – 1955 | 68 mins | Crime, Drama | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Typical b-movie melodrama from Butchers set in the world of the stock car racing. There’s a minor crime story and some staid romance but the film only livens up when the souped-up cars roar around the track.

Katie Glebe (Rona Anderson), the daughter of a stock-car owner killed while racing is dissuaded from selling her father’s Halfway Garage by American fellow-racer Larry Duke (Paul Carpenter) who helps her run it, and pay off her father’s debts to the oily Turk (Paul Whitsun-Jones). Turk’s mistress, Trixie (Susan Shaw), is used to divert Larry whilst a stolen car intended for stock car racing is recovered from the garage, and Larry is beaten up when he attempts to intervene. Larry subsequently recognizes the stolen car on the stock car track, but he is nearly killed in a fixed race due to Turk and his crooked driver Monty (Harry Fowler) having tampered with his steering. Larry and Italian mechanic Robbie, hatch a plan to win an international stock car and repay Katie debt to Turk with the £500 winnings.