A made for TV remake of the 1946 film, with additional racing angle. Like the first one, the two killers, Lee Marvin and Clu Gulager (in a playful performance) kill John Cassavetes (in a surreal way - they shoot him dead but there's not a drop of blood). Then start working out the backstory, which involved mechanic Claude Akins, Angie Dickinson (too nice for a femme fatale), and gangsters Ronald Reagan and Norman Fell.
Back projected racing scenes aren't great but Siegal has a sure hand in showing us the climactic bit of driving that allows them to ambush the mail truck for a million bucks.
Considering the lack of blood at the beginning the killers are allowed (by the censor) to be quite rough with Dickinson,and there's plenty of blood at the end. The film went in fact direct to cinemas. Good cast. Music by John Williams. Universal.
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