This look into speedboat racing on the briny Salton Sea in southern California is not exactly sports journalism at its finest, and more than one of the spills we see appear staged. It's really just a curio and may not be of much interest to most. I liked seeing it because it was just 9 minutes, had some campiness to it, and I've visited the area, which was once quite a tourist destination, but fell on hard times in the 1980's. If you ever get a chance, check out Bombay Beach, a town of just a couple hundred people which has quite a bit of quirky art amongst its buildings (abandoned or otherwise). As this short film was created a couple of decades before the area's zenith we don't any indication of the luxury resorts that would appear on the shores of the Salton Sea, which is unfortunate. It's just tiny speedboats zipping around, cheesy commentary, and some fun with reversing/slowing motion. Seeing 18-year-old pioneer Loretta Turnbull briefly was kind of cool though - I hadn't heard of her before, but she was apparently famous in the 1930's, appearing on the back of a Wheaties box and various other advertisements. It's too bad there wasn't more meat to her story here or the race she was out there for, e.g. Who even won?