This film was part of Ranks plans to go to far flung locations as background to their films.So here we have a colourful location in front of which is played out a colourless story.Anthony Steel is so inert he is virtually horizontal.Stanley Baker on the other hand wildly overplays barking out his lines like an RSM on a parade ground.
Lucky they didn't film the following year as there were two fatal crashes which brought an end to this extremely hazardous race.
Review of Checkpoint
