Speed Zone is a film about an assortment of greedy and eccentric people who are forced to participate in the annual and illegal cross-country car race, the Cannonball Run.
From Washington, D.C. to Santa Monica, they race in order to claim a cash-prize money for the winner and runners-up. Oafish Charlie is forced to drive a BMW with bubble-brained starlet Tiffany.
Alec, an English deadbeat, asks Mafia hitman Vic, hired to kill him for outstanding bad loans, to travel with him in a Jaguar XJ-12. Alec hopes to use the prize money to get out of his debits.
M.I.T. graduates and best friends Lea and Margaret participate in the race, driving a Ferrari Daytona Spyder, hoping to meet some good looking guys along the way.
Valentino, a skittish Italian, teams up with Flash, an ex-cop, to drive a red Lamborghini Countach for business reasons.
Heather and Jack are two television reporters covering the action in their Ford van and even partake in the race themselves.
Nelson and Randolph Van Sloan are two wealthy and spoiled brothers driving a Bentley Corniche convertible, and resort to dirty tricks to get ahead.
Hounding the Cannonballers all along the way is the manic and corrupt Police Chief Spiro T. Edsel and his dim-witted aide, Whitman, hoping to stop the race and end the nuisance the drivers cause by any means necessary.
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Cannonball Fever
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Drivin
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Richie Havens:
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Perfect Crime
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Born to Race
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Roll Away
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Michael Mugrage:
Writer
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Dizzy Miss Lizzy
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Tiffany's Theme
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Rattlesnake Shake
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Tiffany's Theme
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David Wheatley:
Performer
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