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Fireball Jungle: Directed by Joseph G. Prieto. With John Russell, Lon Chaney Jr., Alan Mixon, Randy Kirby. A stock-car racer pursues a gangster and a troublemaking driver who killed his brother as they overran a Southern stock-car circuit.
- (68)
- Crime, Drama
- Joseph G. Prieto
- 1977-04
Fireball Jungle is a 1968 melodrama directed by Joseph P. Mawra and starring John Russell and Lon Chaney Jr. The film featured the hit single, "Love (Can Make You Happy)" by Mercy and was filmed in and around Tampa, Florida.
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Gangster Nero Sagittarius hires stock car driver Cateye Meares, leader of a band of sadistic thugs, to help him gain control of several automobile racetracks.
- Jose Priete, Joseph L. Wiezcki
- John Russell
The actual lead is a dimwitted driver in the 'fireball jungle' of stock car racing known as Cateye Meares (Allan Mixon), a real scumbag whose supply of cash, cars, clothes, and girls come from mob kingpin Nero Solitarius (Russell), in exchange for providing his syndicate with stolen vehicles (shades of Lon Chaney's 1942 "Eyes of the Underworld ...
Fireball Jungle (1968) R 10/02/1968 (US) Crime 1h 34m. User. Score. Play Trailer. 'CATEYE'...a SAVAGE BRUTE KING of a jungle of hot rods and barracuda babes! Overview. Ambitious driver, wanting to get to the top of the stock-car circuit, gets mixed up with gangsters. Joseph P. Mawra. Director. Harry Whittington. Writer. Reviews.
