A friend named Nick found this reference to King of the Mountain on the back of the Contents page from European Car magazine May 2006. I couldn't believe that they elevated that movie to the status of being the last real car movie of our time. I can believe Le Mans being in that category but not King of the Mountain.
I have heard that in Australia King of the Mountain has become a cult classic and the Australian race by the same title has been won repeatedly by Pete Brock.
I think that making a good movie about Mulholland is still possible, as long as there are enough of us left to make sure that it is accurate. That's why I am making the effort to make The Mulholland Experience more complete and the project with Victor very truthful and accurate. We want our stories to live on and be remembered as they happened, not as Hollywood would have it, like King of the Mountain. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure that we are all happy that they made a movie about Mulholland racing. It's just that myself and a couple of my good Mulholland buddies really didn't appreciate the way that Charley was portrayed (played by Dennis Hopper). They were disrespectful, and incorrectly showed his character as being unstable, insane-like, aggressive, loud, obsessive, and in-polite. He wasn't like that at all. I had the opportunity to talk to him several times while he helped me with engine problems with my Camaro. Charley was mellow, nice, knowledgeable, helpful, polite and with a good demeanor. Also kind of quiet. His mellow attitude may have changed dramatically when he was driving/blazing thru Mulholland, but this is necessary in order to be called the undisputed King of the Hill. Rest in peace.
