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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXpCZDKK6hA
Steve Hacker
Johnny Dark (1954) Presented by Undiscovered Classics.
Movie begins around 25 minutes.
Around 30 minutes the black piano player is the famous "Scatman" Caruthers
Undiscovered Classics
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Think back to 1953, a time when if you wanted your own American sports car, you had to build it. Yes, the Corvette was coming out the same year and just a few hundred would be available to the public. So if you couldn’t buy your own Corvette, you had to build it. Universal Studios wanted to capitalize on this new sports car excitement and in 1953, started filming “Johnny Dark” – a film about an automobile engineer, Johnny Dark, who designed a radical new car
(in reality, a Woodill Wildfire, Series 2 car). When the company’s owner refuses to sponsor the car in a Canada to Mexico Sports-car race, Johnny, with the aid of the company owner’s granddaughter, steals the car and runs the race against his former friend and the race’s favored driver.
It stars Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie as the main characters meaning this was an “A” level film. No “B” movie here gang. In fact, when it was filmed in 1953, it was one of the first to capture race scenes from a helicopter. Remember, American road racing was in it’s infancy in 1953, this was one early racing film!
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