{"id":395,"date":"2013-03-11T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T00:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2013-03-11T21:11:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T02:11:40","slug":"racing-fever-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/racing-fever-the-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"At The Movies&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife is downstairs watching the Academy Awards, which brings up a thought about hydroplanes and movies. Here&#8217;s some movies that I know of that had inboard hydroplanes featured in them. If there were any others, let me <a href=\"mailto:webmaster@vintagehydroplanes.com\">know<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>Racing Fever<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; The Movie&#8221; brings forth the following movie trailer. If you haven&#8217;t bought and seen this 1964 movie yet, buy it and get ready to see a really &#8216;bad movie&#8217; with the most stupidest, love story \/ bad guy storyline plot. It&#8217;s so stupid, you&#8217;ll laugh more than anything, but in the 60s, if would have probably been a movie one would typically walk out on, if it were not for the neat action footage of the old limited class hydroplanes doing their thing in Florida.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GbXLLCA9r14\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Magnificent Obsession<\/strong><\/em> (1954) trailer<br \/>\nstarring Rock Hudson &amp; Jane Wyman<br \/>\n<em>I believe this has the unlimited boat, <strong>Hurricane<\/strong> which Rock Hudson&#8217;s playboy character owns and uses for one of his play toys.<\/em><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hlz1KlRM5kI\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Madison<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Movie Trailer (long version)<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gd67US7X2f0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Route 66<\/strong><br \/>\nThe famous TV show. This 1963 episode feature the 4-seater <strong>Miss Budweiser<\/strong> Unlimited hydro (Bernie Little converted it to drove folks around in) going in a head-to-head &#8220;race&#8221; with Ray Gassner&#8217;s<strong> Sunshine Baby IV, H-57<\/strong> 7-litre Lauterbach. Guy Lombardo makes a few appearances and his Port-O-Call Lounge, too.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nTTmGjywFqk\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Brent McLean for sending in the video link<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;..and Guido Romani send me this about an Italian movie that featured hydroplanes: <em><strong>Violenza sul Lago<\/strong><\/em> (about 1952\/3) with Mario Verga boat &#8220;<strong>Laura<\/strong>&#8221; and a few passages with driver\/owners Verga and Selva as actors!<br \/>\nGuido states video will be available later &#8211; but below appears to be the movie poster.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/racing-fever-the-movie\/italian_movie_poster\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-403\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-403\" alt=\"italian_movie_poster\" src=\"http:\/\/vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/italian_movie_poster-162x300.jpg\" width=\"162\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/italian_movie_poster-162x300.jpg 162w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/italian_movie_poster.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife is downstairs watching the Academy Awards, which brings up a thought about hydroplanes and movies. Here&#8217;s some movies that I know of that had inboard hydroplanes featured in them. If there were any others, let me know. &#8220;Racing Fever &#8211; The Movie&#8221; brings forth the following movie trailer. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}