Greased Lightning
| Greased Lightning | |
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| Directed by | Michael Schultz |
| Produced by | Lester Berman Hannah Weinstein |
| Written by | Leon Capetanos Lawrence DuKore Melvin Van Peebles Kenneth Vose |
| Starring |
Richard Pryor Beau Bridges Pam Grier |
| Music by | Fred Karlin |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Release date
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July 1, 1977 |
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Running time
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96 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Greased Lightning is a 1977 American biographical film, starring Richard Pryor, Beau Bridges, and Pam Grier, and directed by Michael Schultz. Richie Havens provided the soundtrack. Greased Lightning is a film loosely based on the true life story of Wendell Scott, the first African American NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race winner and 2015 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee. Greased Lightning was partially filmed in Winder, Georgia Athens, Georgia at the former Athens Speedway, and Madison, Georgia. And also Middle Georgia Raceway in Byron, Georgia
Wendell Scott, a taxi cab driver in post-World War II, learns his craft for car racing by transporting illegal moonshine in the backwoods of Virginia. By the mid-1960s, he was a veteran driver who had won his battles with the white racetrack owners and police officers.
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