Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown is a 1977 animated film produced by United Feature Syndicate for Paramount Pictures, directed by Bill Meléndez, and the third in a series of movies based on the Peanuts comic strip. It was the first Peanuts project to not have music by Vince Guaraldi. It is considered the darkest of the four Peanuts feature films since the scenes were too violent for younger kids.
The Peanuts gang head off to a summer camp in a m...
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Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown is a 1977 animated film produced by United Feature Syndicate for Paramount Pictures, directed by Bill Meléndez, and the third in a series of movies based on the Peanuts comic strip. It was the first Peanuts project to not have music by Vince Guaraldi. It is considered the darkest of the four Peanuts feature films since the scenes were too violent for younger kids.
The Peanuts gang head off to a summer camp in a mountainous area (somewhere in the western US), where they ultimately compete in a river rafting race; Charlie Brown, true to form, is accidentally left behind by the bus while at a desolate rest stop. He is then forced to hitch a harrowing ride on Snoopy's motorcycle in order to make the rest of the journey to the camp, accompanied by rock guitar type riffs of "biker music" while Charlie Brown is shouting in fear at Snoopy's wild driving. Upon their arrival, the kids are immediately exposed to the regimentation and squalor of camp life which...
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