{"id":17551,"date":"2010-12-07T15:19:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T15:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=17551"},"modified":"2022-06-27T13:46:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T12:46:36","slug":"king-of-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/king-of-the-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"King of the Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s a pretty obscure movie, but King of the Mountain remains one of our favourite car flicks out there.<\/p>\n

The film, directed by Noel Nosseck, focusses on a real life scene of the late seventies in which street racers would go head-to-head up Mulhollund Drive high up in the Hollywood Hills.<\/p>\n

At the core of the film is the relationship between a bunch of street racers fighting for dominance. The payoff is that the old guard as represented by Hopper and his hulk of Detroit steel, ebbs into a technologically adept, youthful future. This was, after all, the eighties.<\/p>\n

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There is a delectable selection of onboard and heli shots that capture the contortions of a particularly phat Porsche Speedster driven by by fro-rocking leading man Harry Hamlin and a brilliantly eschatological Dennis Hopper at the helm of a battered, stripped down street racing ‘vette.<\/p>\n

A fairly long but engaging sequence is featured below. Stick with it for the brilliant, schlocky end punctuation that starts the scrolling credits and period authentic Carly Simon theme tune.<\/p>\n