Stroker Ace

The Raging Gockel (AKA: Stroker Ace ) is an action comedy from Hal Needham from the year 1983.

Action

Stroker Ace is a popular racing driver and three -time champion of NASCAR. He's an all or nothing pilot, either he wins or does not come to the finish. He 's an arrogant guy and not interested in anything around him, except for his rivalry with the young climber Aubrey James.

When he quarreled with his sponsor Jim Cattey of Zenon Oil ( by filling his car with concrete during Cattey still is sitting ), he will have to look for a new financial backer. The owner of the chicken restaurant chain Clyde Torkel offers and offers Stroker and his mechanic Lugs Harvey a three-year contract they accept rushed. As it turns out later that he is committed to this agreement to participate in various public relations events that did not like Stroker. Among other things, it must occur in chicken costumes in public and accept to all evil, that his race car, the slogan " The Fastest Chicken in the South " sheet ( The Fastest Chicken in the South).

When Stroker realizes that he himself can not get out of this contract, he devises a plan with Lugs as he can get Torkel to fire him.

While working for Torkel, he comes with the pretty Pembrook in contact, which is responsible for the PR work Torkels. He tries to capture the imagination, but it was only when he got the Antialkoholikerin drunk, opened for him the opportunity to obtain the self-confessed virgin into bed. But he gets a guilty conscience and lets go of her.

Stroker manages to win a few races and has in the last race of the season the chance to win the championship title. Start Shortly before the last race Stroker and his friends with the implementation of its plan, which is intended to allow Stroker, get out of the contract with Torkel: they send a straw man to Torkel, posing as brewery owner and wants to buy Torkels companies. Torkel takes your mind until the end of the last race.

Before the last race is started, makes Torkel Stroker following proposal: Should he win and become champion, he must apply the contractually agreed, another two years chicken; he should not do that, he would dismiss him and declare the contract void.

During the race Stroker is torn and initially falls far behind. But the longer the race, the more it grabs his ambition to win the race.

Due to its poor position in the race to Torkel feels compelled to agree to the deal with the brewery and are at the same time the press announced that he dismisses Stroker with immediate effect. When this message to Stroker transpires in a race car, he finally decides, again to give everything and to take the title. In a tight final, he makes it to the top position, is sent in the last turn of a competitor into a spin, which turns over his car and it slides on the roof lying on the goal line.

Torkel congratulates the new champion grudgingly whether his hasty decision, but is not yet convinced that they have threaded a financially lucrative sale of his company. At this point, Stroker, however, tells him that this contract can not be established because the brewery was willing to buy a threaded- he feint.

Background

The action comedy is a film adaptation of the novel Stand On It by William Neely and Robert K. Ottum. Burt Reynolds waived for the role in this comedy a role in Terms of Endearment, which was eventually played by Jack Nicholson.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times (July 1, 1983), although the film was a literary adaptation, but he belonged to a series of virtually identical films with Burt Reynolds as The highway is all hell broke loose. He is light entertainment for the summer.

Awards

Jim Nabors in 1984 he received the Golden Raspberry for Worst Supporting Actor. Hal Needham and Hank Moon Jean were nominated for a 1984, Loni Anderson for two Golden Raspberry.

DVD Release

  • The Raging Gockel. Koch Media GmbH, 2011
1983 in film Screenplay Hugh Wilson (director) David Peckinpah Hank Moonjean Film score Chicago Sun-Times Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor
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