What is interesting about B films is their ability to demonstrate qualities, despite the scarcity of means. Unlike a big budget, where all the means for success are granted, which is not always enough to avoid flops, in a B series the means are frankly reduced, although positive results are still expected, due to the reduction of costs. So B movies are mostly cheap films that try to hit the majority taste of the public.
All this to conclude that Pit Stop is certainly not an auteur film, nor a masterpiece of cinema, but it is one of the most exciting films I have seen about car racing.
A low budget with a simple and predictable plot, a lot of editing work to cut filming costs, second-rate actors (despite the presence of an unexpected Ellen Burstyn in a secondary role, which gives the film a touch of class), but action in spurts, fantastic and exciting races, with accidents in bulk, taken from a time when motor racing was still synonymous with a game of life and death.
All this to conclude that Pit Stop is certainly not an auteur film, nor a masterpiece of cinema, but it is one of the most exciting films I have seen about car racing.
A low budget with a simple and predictable plot, a lot of editing work to cut filming costs, second-rate actors (despite the presence of an unexpected Ellen Burstyn in a secondary role, which gives the film a touch of class), but action in spurts, fantastic and exciting races, with accidents in bulk, taken from a time when motor racing was still synonymous with a game of life and death.