The World's Fastest Indian Page #10

Synopsis: For 25 years in Invercargill at the south end of New Zealand, Burt Munro (1899-1978) has been working on increasing the speed of his motorcycle, a 1920 Indian. He dreams of taking it to the Bonneville Salt Flats to see how fast it will go. By the early 1960s, heart disease threatens his life, so he mortgages his house and takes a boat to Los Angeles, buys an old car, builds a makeshift trailer, gets the Indian through customs, and heads for Utah. Along the way, people he meets are charmed by his open, direct friendliness. If he makes it to Bonneville, will they let an old guy on the flats with makeshift tires, no brakes, and no chute? And will the Indian actually respond?
Director(s): Roger Donaldson
Production: Magnolia Distribution
  10 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
PG-13
Year:
2005
127 min
$5,100,000
Website
1,450 Views


that they may cause drowsiness...

- do not operate machinery.

- I know that.

Well, you're not supposed

to take two of them anyway.

One for me

and one for the old girl.

Nitroglycerine.

Should make it go faster.

Have some of this, love.

There you go.

- Yeah, we're almost there.

- Alright, here we go.

- Hold her still.

- Your goggles.

- What?

- Goggles.

- Put your goggles on.

- I know, calm down.

I can't get my leg in because

of the asbestos cloth on it.

Let me take it off.

- What about your leg in that heat?

- Screw it, I've got a spare one.

Right, Burt.

Get those goggles.

- Ready?

- Alright, you know the way.

Make sure you come back.

Come on, les go!

Right, push!

Come on, fellas. Push faster!

Keep running.

Keep it straight, buddy.

Bring it in, Burt. Come on.

Go, go, go...

Les go, Burt!

Come on, Burt!

You can do it, Burt.

He's got no parachute,

he's got no brakes.

158.647.

Mile one,

158.647 miles per hour.

Go, Burt!

- Go on!

- Go, Burt!

- Make us proud, honey!

- Burt!

167.921.

Mile two,

167.921 miles per hour.

Break it, Burt.

Come on! Go, go, go!

Come on, Burt.

Mile three,

171.371 miles per hour.

Come on, come on, come on!

Mile four,

172.485 miles per hour.

Yeah!

Come on!

Mile five,

183.694 miles per hour.

193.728.

Mile six,

193.728 miles per hour.

Come on, come on!

Come on, Burt.

You can do it!

Come on, Burt!

Mile seven,

194.211 miles per hour.

- Go, Burt!

- Burt, go!

What is it?

201.851.

Mile eight,

201.851 miles per hour.

Ladies and gentlemen,

thas a new record...

201.851 miles per hour.

Burt, I hope you're going

to stop soon.

- He's gone back!

- Back where?

Back to whatever planet he came from

because he sure ain't from this one.

I really did toast my leg.

I did it.

I did it.

Tom, can you get that,

my hands are wet.

Hello?

This is the United States calling I have

a collect call from Mr. Burt Munro...

will you accept the charge?

- Mum, is Burt calling collect.

- It is? Accept the call, accept the call!

My mum said we can accept the call.

- Go ahead, sir.

- Hello Tom, is that you?

- Yes.

- Is me, Burt.

I did it Tom,

she's the worls fastest Indian.

She is?

Dad, dad!

Dad! He did it! Burt did it!

He set a new record.

How is it going?

Hello, mate!

- Hey, Duncan.

- Congratulations, Burt.

Hello, Frank.

How are you?

- Welcome home, Burt.

- Hello, George.

My goodness, you've made

this place look spiffing, mate.

You did us proud.

- You put Invercargill on the map.

- Well, I reckon so, yeah.

- What have you got planned now?

- Right now I've a lot of work to do...

if I'm to get back to Bonneville

next year, you know.

So, more early mornings then?

Yeah, more early mornings.

Hello, love.

- Welcome home.

- Nice to be back.

- Hello, Tom.

- Hey, Burt.

How are you, son?

Good to see ya.

You're growing up a bit, huh?

I looked after your lemon tree

just like you told me.

You did, yeah.

Is doing well isn't it?

Yeah, is beautiful.

- I fed the chickens.

- You did?

- And mum cooked all the eggs.

- Oh, yeah...

- did they taste good?

- Yep.

- Yeah, good. Have you got my key?

- Here it is.

- Right thanks.

- I took good care of it.

- I knew you would.

- How fast did you go?

Mighty fast. In one of my runs

I did over 200 miles an hour.

What would happen if you opened

your mouth at that speed?

Well, you'd blow the backside

out of your pants I reckon.

Right, lets see.

Its nice to be home.

Back in my shed.

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Roger Donaldson

Roger Lindsey Donaldson (born 15 November 1945) is an Australian-born New Zealand film director, producer and writer whose films include The World's Fastest Indian (2005), acclaimed 1981 relationship drama Smash Palace, and a run of titles shot in the United States, including the Kevin Costner films No Way Out (1987) and Thirteen Days (2000), and the 1997 disaster film Dante's Peak. He has worked twice with actors Kevin Costner, Pierce Brosnan, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Madsen. more…

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