1956 Mille Miglia movie "Checkpoint" now on youtube too

[Ace-Garageguy]

A British (color) film with racing sequences shot partially during the 1956 Mille Miglia in Italy is now on youtube in its entirety. The plot is kinda lame, but the cars, women and scenery are beautiful indeed. It's fascinating to me to see these cars filmed when they were state-of-the-art racing machines, muddy, greasy, hot and wet...not over-restored and coddled "art" objects.

The film thanks "the David Brown organization" (Aston Martin) and John Wyer (went on to run the Ford GT40 racing program) for technical assistance. Plenty of mid-'50s Astons, big Healeys, Jags, Porsches, a V12 Lagonda, Mercs, Lancias, Alfas, Maseratis, Ferraris, etc...all when they were new race cars in action (complete with no firesuits or rollbars, and bakelite helmets).

Worth a watch if you love vintage European sports cars.

Look up '"Checkpoint 1956" on YT.

Edited November 16, 2013 by Ace-Garageguy

[Greg Myers]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7ncweROe9U

[Rob Hall]

Sounds very interesting...will have to check it out. Looks like Amazon Prime has it also for streaming.

Edited November 16, 2013 by Rob Hall

[sjordan2]

Between a cast with Stanley Baker, James Robertson Justice and Anthony Steel, plus all those fifties cars, looks like a winner to me.

[Roncla]

Thanks for the heads up. I'm watching it tonight.

[lordairgtar]

The bad guy looks like one of the CBI agents in The Mentalist...Rigby.