What's that film

[maicoman]

Just racking my brain trying to remember a dirtbike movie made in the late 60's or early 70's.
It was a British made movie, I think it was called "Scrambling" but I just can't remember. The premace of the story is there is a young boy that scrambles on a Husqvarna and parks it in the pits after his race. A boy is walking past the bike and tries to start or steel it and he crashes.
  The owner helps the boy buy an old Husky and they rebuild it and he races. There are some parts of sabotage and general muckracking in the film and then the kids gets kidnapped by some bank robbers towards the end.
  I think the family in the movie drove a Humber or Rover car which made sense for the movie to be late 60's. I would love to watch this film again if anyone knows what it is.
Cheers Brooksie.

[KTMaico]

The kid gets kidnapped and shipped to Australia via Sweden, Has a name change along the way to throw off any chaasers. I think it was called "The Hans Applgren Story" 

Only Kidding, Sorry Hans.

Kevin

[Nobby25]

Hey Brooksie Try http://www.vintagemx.us/movies.htm there is a big list of movies that had bikes in them, there is one called scramble. I was trying to remember a movie from the early seventies also which turned out to be Hells Angels 69 that had a lot of "scrambling" in it. cheers Nob

[maicoman]

Cheers Nobby, that's an awesome site and yes found the movie. It's called "Scramble" and was made in 1970. I also saw listed one of my favourite other bike movies Silver Dream racer featuring David Essex.

[Lozza]

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/General-news/2011/March/mar1111-david-essex-reunited-with-silver-dream-racer/

[Gerard De Ruyter (Twistandshout)]

So uh I guess that was David Essex atop the machine?  But.....that's not how I remember him at all....  Surely he's actually one of the guys standing next to the bike - please......?

[firko]

Nope Twisty, that's acclaimed vocalist/thespian David Essex aboard the SDR. Even his giant talents couldn't save this lemon of a movie.  Silver Dream Racer is the road racing equivalent of the equally odious motocross movie "Sidewinder one". Another stinker was Little Fauss and Big Halsy which the talents of Robert Redford couldn't even save from sinking. Thank buggery that Worlds Fastest Indian eventually came along to prove that a great motorcycle could be made.

[NR555]

[Freakshow]

WITH a TOP HAT AND A MIGHTY dt1 CAN THE STORY BE WRITTEN ANY BETTER ?

[TeeBone]

Another dirtbikin movie out of the 70's is Race with the Devil. Peter Fonda, Warren Oates and Loretta Swit (Hotlips) star in this not too bad movie. Worth tracking down if for nothing more than the early KX footage.

[pancho]

 I saw a movie called "The pace that thrills" 'round about 1950.
 It stared Bill Williams [a "B" grade movie favourite of the times].
Being about 12 yrs old at the time I thought it was good fun, even though my pre teen brain recognised some stupidity in it.
 For a change it wasn't about nasty louts but about blokes having fun on dirt tracks and the road. Wouldn't mind seeing it again for fun [& squirming over some of the sequences.]
 cheers pancho.