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Silver Dream Racer on DVD (1980)

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Average rating: 62%
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3.0
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Starring: David Essex, Beau Bridges, Cristina Raines, Diane Keen
Director: David Wickes
Studio: ITV DVD
Run time: 111 mins
Certificate: 15
User collections: aceface collection
Genres: Action/Adventure, Thriller
Languages: English
Released: 13/06/2003

Brief synopsis of Silver Dream Racer

Two professional motorcycle racers competing in the world motorcycle championship find themselves at odds in a more personal type of competition. They both love the same woman. Mick Freeman (played by popstar David Essex) gains the edge when he discovers the bike of his dream, the Silver Dream Racer, in his late brother's garage.

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Rating of 2 stars out of 5 Radio Times

Whatever happened to David Essex? Here he is, near the end of his heyday, racing motorbikes, dressing in leather, trying to be James Dean and keeping Brylcreem in business. He wrote the music, too. The plot kicks in when Essex is given the mean machine of the title, a space-age ride designed to leave American ace rider Beau Bridges on the starting grid. Love interest is secondary. A vanity project from beginning to end, it tries hard to be a British Wild Angels, Easy Rider or Electra Glide in Blue, but rarely rises above the level of a clapped out Vespa.

Halliwell's Film Guide

One wonders who can have thought there was any box-office appeal in this cliché-ridden, derivative, flashily made update of the Road to Ruin.

Time Out

A catatonic David Essex hauls himself up, Sheene-style, to higher sponsorship on the motorcycle racing circuit. Beau... Read more on www.timeout.com

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Rated - 0 stars

A customer from SALISBURY , 04/04/2004

Remember this film with a passion as was there when they filmed a lot of it

what on earth have they done to the ending this was not how the film ended!!!! originaly

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Rated - 2 starsEnding.....

A customer from Kent , 24/08/2005

This film is about a motorbike rider who wants to be the best. He finally gets his dream bike throught a tragic accident. He goes on to prove how good he is. Sadly the film has been cut and the end changed from sad to a now happy ending – so if you can get the original then watch that.

Ok if you want to see a film you remember from years ago, but if you’ve not seen it before then I would suggest trying something else more up-to-date

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Rated - 3 starsA minor fault

A customer from North East , 17/12/2003

I have one fault with this movie. Not with movie as such but more with carlton. Anyone who remembers this classic bike movie will remember that the very end of the movie as david essex crosses the finish line, the bike developes a fault & he crashes. Carlton in thier infinite wisdom decided to cut this from the movie so the film ends with him crossing finish line to win the race.

Anyone have any idea why they would do this as i cant think of any.

  2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
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Rated - 1 starschange of ending

lynne arnold from weymouth dorset , 31/05/2005

what happened to the original ending. such a let down this version. whos idea was it to change the ending, where the bike failed after going through the finishing line.

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Rated - 3 starsA minor fault

A customer from North East , 17/12/2003

I have one fault with this movie. Not with movie as such but more with carlton. Anyone who remembers this classic bike movie will remember that the very end of the movie as david essex crosses the finish line, the bike developes a fault & he crashes. Carlton in thier infinite wisdom decided to cut this from the movie so the film ends with him crossing finish line to win the race.

Anyone have any idea why they would do this as i cant think of any.

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Rated - 1 starschange of ending

lynne arnold from weymouth dorset , 31/05/2005

what happened to the original ending. such a let down this version. whos idea was it to change the ending, where the bike failed after going through the finishing line.

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