Tales of the Rat Fink

The Legend of the World's Greatest Kustom Car Builder Ed "Big Daddy" Roth

From the award-winning director of Comic Book Confidential and Grass comes Tales of the Rat Fink, Ron Mann's wildly inventive bio about Renaissance man Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, who engineered a shift in midtwentieth century culture with his customized cars, "monster" T-shirts and America's alternative rodent - "Rat Fink" The subject of Tom Wolfe's essay "The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby", Ed Roth
helped fuel the "Kustom Kulture" / Hot rod movement of the 1960s in Southern California. Hot Rodding grew from crude backyard engineering where performance was the bottom line into a refined art form where aesthetics were equally important.

Mann's largely animated documentary features the voice talents of John Goodman, Ann-Margret, Jay Leno, Brian Wilson, Tom Wolfe, Matt Groening, Robert Williams, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Paul LeMat, Billy F Gibbons, and The Smothers Brothers.

Filmed in Kandy color. Recorded with real 426 hemi engines.