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In 1949 Barkhimer took over San Jose Speedway and also started his own association, and in 1954 he co-founded west coast NASCAR. [3] Among top drivers who were killed at the Oakland Speedway was Clyde Rea Bray, who had held second place in the A.R.A. [clarification needed] points in 1939, behind champion Wally Schock. Bray had come in 5th in ...
The 1954 season included 9 individual races, with Oakland Speedway and Balboa Stadium both hosting two events. [1] Multiple of the season's races were in combination with the NASCAR Grand National Series.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 3 Ring Circus: Joseph Pevney: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joanne Dru: Comedy: Paramount: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Richard Fleischer ...
The High and the Mighty is a 1954 American aviation disaster film, directed by William A. Wellman, and written by Ernest K. Gann, who also wrote the 1953 novel on which his screenplay was based. [3] Filmed in WarnerColor and CinemaScope , the film's cast was headlined by John Wayne , who was also the project's co-producer.
The 1954 Mid-South 250 was a NASCAR Grand National race that took place on October 10, 1954, at Memphis-Arkansas Speedway in the community of LeHi, Arkansas. One hundred and sixty-seven laps were raced on a dirt track spanning 1.500 miles (2.414 km). Twelve-thousand people attended this untelevised race where Buck Baker won in his 1954 Oldsmobile.
Race-car driver Gino Borgesa meets a ballerina, Nicole Laurent, whose pet poodle causes a crash at the track. She persuades an ex-lover to give Gino money for a new car.
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The Forty-Niners is a 1954 American Western film directed by Thomas Carr and written by Daniel B. Ullman. The film stars Wild Bill Elliott, Virginia Grey, Harry Morgan, John Doucette, Lane Bradford and I. Stanford Jolley. The film was released on May 4, 1954, by Allied Artists Pictures. [1] [2] [3]