Hot Rod

James Lydon stars as David Langham, an enterprising youth with an eye for the girls and an ear for a well-tuned high-compression machine. And his dad (Art Baker) happens to be a small town judge.
Hot Rod
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 1 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: October 19, 2010
  • Originally Released: 1950
  • Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)

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Rotten39%

TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 117

Upright64%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 304,371
Rating: 2/5 -- A perennial problem with comedy from regular collaborators is that the results feel too much like friends' in-jokes. Full Review
Film4
Nov 15, 2011
Rating: 2/4 -- If you're looking for plausibility, this is not your movie. If you're looking for laughs, this is not your movie. If you like seeing delusional overgrown adolescents fall down a lot, then this one's for you.
USA Today
Sep 1, 2007
Sandberg has a stubborn charm that should win over even the most jaded veteran of post-[Napoleon] Dynamite comedy. Full Review
Irish Times
Mar 31, 2019
Rating: 3/5 -- Silly but funny. Full Review
Guardian
Sep 29, 2007
The Jackass-ification of mainstream American comedy continues, but where are the laughs? Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Mar 31, 2019
Rating: 4/5 -- He'll break a few ribs -- you'll split your sides. Full Review
Sky Cinema
Mar 31, 2019
Rating: 3/5 -- Though it's as disposable as a plastic razor, Hot Rod is not without a few good yuks. Full Review
BBC.com
Sep 25, 2007

Description by OLDIES.com:

Like something that rolled out of a garage in Andy Hardy's hometown of Carvel Indiana comes Hot Rod. James Lydon (whose radio and film portrayals of Henry Aldrich were perhaps but a half-block removed from Andy) stars as David Langham, an enterprising youth with an eye for the girls and an ear for a well-tuned high-compression machine. And his dad? He's a sagacious font of advice (Art Baker) who happens to be a small town judge. The film, which combines the excitement of tire-singing speed with a cautionary message about the perils of street racing, would see a stream of redlining exploitation flicks in its rearview, Hot Rod Girl, Hot Rod Gang and Hot Rods to Hell among them.

Product Description:

The postwar hot-rod craze spawned a whole new movie subgenre. This Monogram entry, titled simply HOT ROD, stars Jimmy Lydon as David Langham, the son of a juvenile court judge (Art Baker) who'd like nothing better than to throw all hot-rodders in the slammer. It is inevitable, then, that David succumbs to the lure of the race track, mainly to impress his girlfriend Janie (Gloria Winters). Before long, David's vehicle is stolen by his rival Joe Langham (Myron Healey), who is promptly involved in a hit-and-run accident. For a while it looks like David's dad is going to throw the book at his own son. Will the truth prevail' Featured in the cast is Tommy Bond, the former "Butch" in the Our Gang series.

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