Hell Drivers

Although Stanley Baker had played prominent supporting roles in films for several years to great acclaim, this was the first time he took the lead in a film.

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David McCallum (Jimmy Yately) met his first wife, Jill Ireland (Jill), during the autumn 1956 shoot.

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Hawlett has two petrol pumps, one labelled "BP" and the other "BP DERV". The first dispenses ordinary petrol from British Petroleum and the second diesel; in the United Kingdom, DERV stands for Diesel Engine Road Vehicle.

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With this particular film, Stanley Baker was to become one of Britain's biggest film stars.

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Tom says he comes from a place called Blaen Llechau (a small village situated on a mountain in South Wales), not far from Cardiff, Wales. In fact, Stanley Baker was from Ferndale, the village that Blaen Llechau looks down on.

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Before Sean Connery (Johnny Kates) was cast, Patrick McGoohan (C. "Red" Redman) and Stanley Baker (Tom Yately) had been considered for the role of James Bond in Dr. No (1962).

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For the fight scene, Stanley Baker and Patrick McGoohan drew on their amateur boxing experience.

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The trucks are 1955 Dodge 100 "Kew" models, also known as "Parrot Nose". They were built in Kew, Greater London, from 1949 to 1957.

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This was the second of six collaborations between the actor Stanley Baker and the director Cy Endfield; the best known is Zulu (1964).

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In his first year on the big screen (he had previously been on television), Sean Connery plays a truck driver. His father was a truck driver.

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Howard Pays (Vera Day's jealous date) and David McCallum (Stanley Baker's disabled younger brother) were later seen together in "Jungle Street" (1961).

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In one scene, the then-unknown 27-year-old Ronnie Barker, who was not credited in the titles, can be seen holding a clipboard.

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This was Anna Cameron's debut.

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At one point Red (Patrick McGoohan) shouts, "I'm no prison warden!" — McGoohan would eventually play a prison guard in Escape from Alcatraz (1979).

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The following year, Stanley Baker and David McCallum would share the lead in Violent Playground (1958).

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David McCallum and Gordon Jackson appeared together in The Great Escape (1963).

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This was Sandra Robb's last film.

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Exploitation visa in France: # 20140.

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Hell Drivers aired on the ITV channel in the United Kingdom on 29 April 1971, between 7 and 9 in the evening, as part of the channel's "Thursday's action film" slot.

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