Fast Company (1979 film)

Fast Company
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	David Cronenberg
Produced by	Michael Lebowitz Peter O'Brian Phil Savath Courtney Smith
Written by	Story: Alan Treen Screenplay: David Cronenberg Phil Savath Courtney Smith
Starring	William Smith Claudia Jennings John Saxon Nicholas Campbell
Music by	Fred Mollin
Cinematography	Mark Irwin
Edited by	Ronald Sanders
Distributed by	Admit One Presentations Danton Films
Release date	18 March 1979
Running time	91 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

Fast Company is a 1979 Canadian action film directed by David Cronenberg and starring William Smith, John Saxon, Claudia Jennings and Nicholas Campbell. It was written by Phil Savath, Courtney Smith, Alan Treen and Cronenberg. It was primarily filmed at Edmonton International Speedway, in addition to other locations in Edmonton, Alberta, and western Canada.

Fast Company is the story of a drag racer (Smith) and his villainous manager (Saxon). The first of his features for which Cronenberg did not originate the screenplay, Fast Company brought Cronenberg into contact with cinematographer Mark Irwin, art director Carol Spier, sound editor Bryan Day, and film editor Ronald Sanders, all of whom became regular crew members on his films. Actor Nicholas Campbell, who plays William Smith's young sidekick, also went on to appear in three more Cronenberg films, The Brood, The Dead Zone, and Naked Lunch.

Although Fast Company - an all-action, non-horror, non-psychological B-movie - remains an anomaly in Cronenberg's filmography, it has never lost its place in the affections of its director, who is an enthusiast of cars and their machinery ("which I get very metaphysical and boring about") and sometime racer.

This was the final film for Claudia Jennings before she was killed in a car accident later that year, several months after the film's release.