We specialize in offering rare, out of print dvds and movies for sale that you cant find elsewhere at fantastic prices. A humble tv movie made for cbs in 1979, death car on the freeway arguably owes a lot to steven spielbergs duel, but it inspired a generation of filmmakers to follow, and is a direct ancestor to quentin tarantinos death proof. Finally, it pushes janes car across the lanes so that another car crashes onto janes and her car is set on fire. Completing the trilogy that started with signal 30 and rolled on. Its a cohesively written and wellexecuted tv movie, even if the acting gets a tad cheesy and the antifast car sentiment a little annoying. Death car on the freeway 1979 09241979 us mystery, thriller, tv movie 1h 31m user score. Mar 31, 2017 a unknown, psychotic driver uses his van to kill unsuspecting female drivers on the freeway. Death car on the freeway tv movie 1979 plot summary imdb. It is understandable as director and writer of freeway, matthew bright, made his life mostly as scenario writer before trying his luck in directing.
Death car on the freeway tv movie 1979 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Over 9,000 of the worlds best film festivals and screenplay contests, including 157 academy award bafta award accredited festivals, use filmfreeway to reach over one million filmmakers worldwide. In a plot similar to steven spielbergs duel, this tells the story of an unseen driver who is dubbed the freeway fiddler. Ive been using film freeway for a year and so far ive gotten about 20 acceptances for 3 different films.
Shelley hack survived on screen a lot longer than many people would have predicted back in 1980, costarring in the tv weeklies cutter to houston 1983 and jack and mike 198687, and delivering. Death car on the freeway not rated 1h 31min mystery, thriller tv movie 25 september 1979 an unknown, psychotic driver uses his van to kill unsuspecting female drivers on the freeway. The black van goes down a slope and joins the heavy traffic of another freeway. The improvement that death car makes on other wacky road movies is this. Death car on the freeway is about a psycho in a souped up blacked out van stalking single women on the california freeways. Overview of death car on the freeway, 1979, directed by hal needham, with gloria stroock, alfie wise, abe vigoda, at turner classic movies. She also worked in film during these years, including a part on the burt reynolds action flick the cannonball run 1981.
The hm vehicles freeway hm meaning high mileage was a threewheel microcar manufactured in burnsville, minnesota, from 1979 to 1982. With the broadcast of death car on the freeway, the 1979 tvmovie by superstar stuntmanturneddirector hal needham smokey and the bandit, cbs attempted to leech off of abcs big push to make. Death car on the freeway tv movie 1979 death car on. With this event, we want to present to an audience these films as a legitimate cinematic movement, not a mere subgenre of horror. Best movies like death car on the freeway bestsimilar. In a plot similar to steven spielbergs duel, this tells. Aug, 2011 top 5 weird ww2 german prototypes that actually flew duration. Common english terms are freeway in australia, south africa, united states and canada, motorway in the united kingdom, pakistan, ireland, new zealand and parts of australia and expressway parts of canada, parts of the united. A humble tv movie made for cbs in 1979, death car on the freeway arguably owes a lot to steven. Freeway is a 1996 american blackcomedy exploitation crime film written and directed by matthew bright and starring kiefer sutherland, reese witherspoon and brooke shields. No videos, backdrops or posters have been added to. Yes, final angel shelley hack switches to final girl as a newswoman fighting sexism in the workplace even as a man in a van the freeway fiddler. Highway safety films that targeted the teenage menace have been around. It also marks a pivotal point in us film history when tv movies were pushing boundaries harder than most theatrical ones when it came to the representation of women and feminist issues.
The films plot resembles a dark take on the fairy tale little red riding hood. Death car on the freeway is a 1979 american madefortelevision crime thriller film starring shelley hack. Death car on the freeway 1979 the movie database tmdb. Death car on the freeway 1979 apocalypse later film. Shelley hack, frank gorshin, peter graves, harriet nelson, barbara rush. Another car who gets caught in the fracas pushes the black van out of the freeway, but it comes back even more savagely for revenge. Death car on the freeway tv movie 1979 death car on the. Death car on the freeway 1979 mystery, thriller tv movie. In a plot similar to steven spielbergs duel, this tells the story of an unseen driver who is dubbed the freeway fiddler the cast features several tv veterans, including george hamilton, frank gorshin, peter graves, dinah shore, harriet nelson, barbara rush and abe vigoda. Janette clausen hack is a television reporter investigating a series of freeway murders involving a psychopathic van driver who is deliberately targeting and killing female motorists by crashing into their cars.
William george bonin january 8, 1947 february 23, 1996, also known as the freeway killer, was an american serial killer and twiceparoled sex offender who committed the rape, torture, and murder of a minimum of 21 boys and young men in a series of killings in 1979 and 1980 in southern california. Robert blames his assistant alfred borden for her death and the two become. A twisted take on little red riding hood, with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker travelling to her grandmothers house and being hounded by a charming, but sadistic, serial killer and pedophile. The unnamed footage festival showcases features and short films all in the genre of found footage horror or faux documentary. Filmfreeway connects filmmakers and screenwriters with film festivals and screenplay competitions.
Film festivals, screenplay contests, submissions filmfreeway. I saw this movie when i was a child of six and it had a lasting impression on me. Death car on the freeway, movie made for tv, 1979 imdb. With reese witherspoon, kiefer sutherland, bokeem woodbine, paul perri. She also starred in the tv movies brave new world 1979 1980, death car on the freeway cbs, 1979 1980 and hart to hart abc, 1979 1980. Death car on the freeway 1979 the fourth centennial for me to celebrate in 2016 is that of dinah shore, who was a leap year baby, born in tennessee on 29th february, 1916. If you like death car on the freeway you are looking for movies about with psychopath, freeway, maniac, strong female character, on the road, accident and.
Death car on the freeway 1979 cast and crew moviefone. He does this while blasting weirdly distorted fiddle music. Discover events that match your passion or create your own. I loved the tongue in cheek humour that made freeway into a cult film. Death car on the freeway 1979 0924 1979 us mystery, thriller, tv movie 1h 31m user score. She also appeared in the man in the santa claus suit nbc, 1979 1980. A controlledaccess highway is a type of highway that has been designed for highspeed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flowingress and egressregulated. She died at 77 in 1994, but technically she only saw 19 birthdays, so she was forever young. Bonin is also suspected of committing a further 15 murders.
With shelley hack, frank gorshin, peter graves, harriet nelson. Death car on the freeway 1979 directed by hal needham. He picks a victim then runs them off the road or causes some other kind of accident killing them. Considering that freway was his first film, it is a pity that for some reason his career didnt take off, as his next three films were complete failures and he didnt turn anything since 2003. Death car on the freeway 1979 completion the film will screen at an american documentary film festival event as well as adding a single title card to credits acknowledging the american documentary film fund for assisting with the completion of the film. We take great care in the creation of your rare dvds for sale so that the content is exactly what you would get from the original studio dvd or the best possible source available. Former stuntman hal needham employed several of his old professional comrades in his madefortv death car on the freeway.
The story of freeway is a twisted version of little red riding hood. Check out death car on the freeway by king apparatus on amazon music. Death car on the freeway feels like a movielength episode of charlies angels or chips, but thats far from being a bad thing. A small town sheriff sets out to find the two kids who have taken his car on a joy ride. Death car on the freeway first aired on cbs television on september 25, 1979. One of the most incredible pieces of filmed entertainment to ever grace television screens, death car on the freeway is nasty, ambitious, and peppered with more fabulous cameos and crashes than cannonball run its no real surprise that director hal needham would go on to direct both cannonballs. Each of the detailed ratings you select will result in a cumulative score for this film. Death car on the freeway tv movie 1979 release info imdb. Death car on the freeway 1979 completion the film will screen at an american documentary film festival event as well as adding a single title card to credits acknowledging the american documentary film fund for assisting with the completion. Great car chases and one of my favorite cars a 240z. Rita wilson says she had extreme side effects from controversial drug chloroquine during covid19 treatment. Originally known as the century freeway, it was renamed the glenn anderson freeway in 1994 for the democratic california politician who. A unknown, psychotic driver uses his van to kill unsuspecting female drivers on the freeway.
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