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BURT MUNRO – OFFERINGS TO THE GOD OF SPEED (1971)
Run Time: 26:25
Producer: NZBC
Director: Roger Donaldson
Key Cast: Burt Munro
FILM MAKERS
Short subject documentary about land speed record holder Burt Munro. Produced for NZBC.
SUMMARY
Well who doesn’t? Everybody breaks the speed limit…don’t they?
Long before he made 2005 movie The World’s Fastest Indian, director Roger Donaldson was fascinated by veteran motorbike racer Burt Munro. Donaldson spent more than two years making this Survey documentary, observing Munro working in his Invercargill shed and following him to Bonneville Flats, Utah, where the 68-year-old attempts to hold the speed record he set on his 1920 Indian Scout bike. Munro worked tirelessly on his bike using basic equipment and ingenuity to solve problems. Donaldson interviews friends, family and biking buddies, who comment on Munro’s vitality and his lifelong obsession.
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… and a nice albeit somewhat amateurish follow up to the Biopic . Great background music though ….
Though really the bio pic is a follow up to this one 😉
Well yeah Corrina .. of course I get that … I mean … think about who the ( bleep ) yer responding to 😉
… the term ‘ follow up ‘ being in reference to you posting the BioPic first … and this bit of ancient NZ TV history … second ..
Sheesh … ya’d think by now ya’d know better ..
Now go watch ” One Week ” and that insane Brazilian M/C horror flic so’s you can present them both to a general public needing to watch them
One full discloser though …
” One Week ” is not ;
Hip
Cool
Bad____ed
etc – et al – ad nauseam
What it is … is the reality of how most of us would deal with as serious an issue as the main protagonist is contending with .
With the added bonus of a classic ‘ snortin Norton ‘ as one of the main co-stars
Sheesh ………
( And yeah I get the smiley face .. question is … does you get the Italian American East Coast sarcasm ? )
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” Motorrad ” is the insane BopZillian M/C horror film ..
” Tall and tan and young and lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes
Each one she passes goes “ah!” ”
Tuto ben !
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it’s on the queue for next week 😉
Burt is with us