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1	* RetroactiveRecognition: Where do we begin? Practically every character with a speaking role later had a successful acting career. When the movie was redistributed on DVD, it was advertised as the movie that had "[[Creator/WilliamHartnell The First]] Series/{{Doctor\|Who}}, [[Creator/SeanConnery the first]] Franchise/JamesBond, [[Series/ThePrisoner1967 Number Six]], the boss of Series/TheProfessionals, [[Film/{{Zulu}} Lieutenant John Chard]], and ''Film/{{Carry On\|Series}}''[='=]s Creator/SidJames." Although many of these actors had careers stretching back several years (sometimes several decades) when they made ''Hell Drivers'', their most iconic roles were still to come.
2	** Creator/StanleyBaker, as Tom Yately, was seven years away from his career-defining role as Lieutenant John Chard in ''Film/{{Zulu}}''.
3	** Herbert Lom, as Gino, had been playing minor roles for twenty years; six years after this film, he was cast as Police Commissioner Charles Dreyfus in ''Film/AShotInTheDark''.
4	** The role of Red was one of Patrick [=McGoohan=]'s earliest; ''Danger Man'', ''Series/{{The Prisoner\|1967}}'', and ''Film/IceStationZebra'' were still many years away.
5	** Creator/WilliamHartnell had been playing minor roles for 25 years when he was cast as Cartley. Six years later, he was cast as the First Doctor in ''Series/DoctorWho'', ensuring his pop culture immortality.
6	** Creator/SidJames and Creator/AlfieBass had already played members of the title gang in ''Film/TheLavenderHillMob'' when they took on the roles of Dusty and Tinker. Within a few years, Bass would be cast in ''Series/TheArmyGame'' and become a fixture of British television for the next twenty years, while James joined the ''Film/{{Carry On\|Series}}'' series for its fourth film, ''Film/CarryOnConstable'', and became a British cultural icon.
7	** Gordon Jackson, as Scottie, became more well-known on British television as Hudson the butler in ''Series/UpstairsDownstairs'' and George Cowley in ''Series/TheProfessionals'' nearly a decade and a half after ''Hell Drivers''.
8	** Creator/DavidMcCallum's scene as Tom's brother Jimmy was one of his first film appearances. ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'' was still seven years in his future.

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