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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Richard Compton (writer)
Release Date:
25 September 1974 (USA) more
Tagline:
In this town a speeding ticket is a death sentence
Plot:
A sadistic small-town sheriff has a habit of deliberately forcing speeders to their deaths on the mountain roads leading into town... more | full synopsis
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The car is the real star of this movie. more (6 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Martin Sheen | ... | Michael McCord |
 | Vic Morrow | ... | Sheriff Roy Childress |
 | Michelle Phillips | ... | Maggie |
| Stuart Margolin | ... | Deputy |
 | Nick Nolte | ... | Buzz Stafford |
| Janit Baldwin | ... | Sissy |
 | Gary Morgan | ... | Lyle Stafford |
| Frederic Downs | ... | Judge J.A. Hooker |
| Don Mantooth | ... | Jack (as Donald Mantooth) |
 | Joe Estevez | ... | Don McCord |
| Britt Leach | ... | Johnny |
| Norman Bartold | ... | Howard |
| Barbara Collentine | ... | Edith |
| Michael Richardson | ... | Charley |
| Gavan O'Herlihy | ... | Tom |
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74 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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This was ABC-TV's 200th "Movie of the Week". more
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Continuity: When "The Kid" shows his car to the Sheriff, the fuel induction setup appears to be four 2-barrel carburetors on a small block Chevy. Later, when "The Kid" is working on his car at the garage, the engine has a Holley 4-barrel carburetor. more
Quotes:
Howard:
Your Honor, I plead nolo contendere.
Judge J.A. Hooker:
That's the same as guilty. That will be a one hundred dollar fine or 10 days in the county jail.
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Martin Sheen, Michelle Phillips, Stuart Margolin and the late Vic Morrow are the human stars of this movie about a young man looking for answers about his brother's death. Mr. Sheen, Mr. Margolin and Mr. Morrow all turn in first rate performances in their respective roles; Ms. Phillips has the slightly less than enviable task of trying to spice up a made-for-TV movie (twenty-five years ago), by supplying the "sex interest" in an otherwise sexless film. The real star, however, is the "California Kid"; a 1934 Ford coupe, borrowed from "Jake" Jacobs, put before a camera and given a workout that'll leave the viewer panting, gasping and holding the edge of the seat with breathless anticipation.
The action scenes are spectacular, (although some of the dialog is a bit lame) making for a fine evening's diversion. This is how all "car movies" should be made.
Try to catch this one on the late movie channel; it's well worth the missed sleep.