'Go Kart Go' (1964) – Jan Darnley-Smith
'Go Kart Go' (1964) is simply smashing, fast-moving, rough n' tumble, marvellously madcap kids comedy over the remarkably intense rivalry between two opposing Go Kart teams that culminates somewhat calamitously in a no less smashing whizz-bang conclusion where wholesome flaxen-haired hero 'Jimpy' (Denis Waterman) stoically takes on the conspicuously dastardly Harry Haggertty (Frazier Hines) in a terrifically thrilling, lemonade-spilling, axle-spinning climax of Daredevil Go Karting and delightfully disarming 'pluckiness' that makes 'Go Kart Go' one of the more niftily nostalgic, riotously rose-tinted examples of the ceaselessly edifying coda of 'good forever trounces evil' so beloved of the greatly admired Children's Film Foundation. With a truly exemplary supporting cast of expert comedy wags including the estimable pratfall-ready thesping talents of Wilfrid Brambell, Graham Stark, Cardew Robinson, and a pacey, finger-poppingly rocking score by film & TV music legend Ron Goodwin, you'd be a rotten egg to miss out on these wizard larks!
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