The Junkman

H.B. Halicki's follow-up to 1974's demolition derby-classic GONE IN 60 SECONDS isn't quite as rafishly original as the first film, but it's still an astonishing artifact from a time when if you wanted to smash up a bunch of cars on screen, you had to smash up a bunch of cars on screen — there were no CGI effects to help you fake it. Writer, producer, director, star and (most important) stunt driver Halicki plays international businessman and movie mogul Harlan Hollis, who's just finished his first feature, Gone in 60 Seconds. But Hollis has enemies, including one of his own executives, who hires a a band of assassins to kill Hollis and his family. Does th...