A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
June 2, 1997
Original Title:
Top Gear: Fast and Furious
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
BBC
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 77
Fast and Furious is the third home video release of original-format Top Gear. Arriving in a classic Mercedes-Benz 300SL, Tiff Needell opens up with the statement that ever since man first jumped on a horse, they have wanted to go faster and faster. What follows is a compilation featuring supercars driven by him and fellow presenter Jeremy Clarkson from Series 32 through to Series 36 of the original version of Top Gear, including the McLaren F1, Ferrari F50, and TVR Griffith 500.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.