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Road Games
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90138
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Road Games (1982)
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The truck driver plays games... The hitchhiker plays games. And the killer is playing the deadliest game of all!
One game kills time - The other kills people!
On the world's loneliest highway it's not a game - it's murder!
Hollywood's Stacy Keach stars in Australia's Road Games. Keach is a truck driver who takes the law in his own hands to capture a serial killer. When the police fail to nab the murderer of hitchhikers, Keach takes to the road, conducting his own search. En route, he picks up hitcher Jamie Lee Curtis--and it is her presence that brings the killer out of hiding and into the bloody finale. Director Richard Franklin's fondness for Hitchcock, which would come to full fruition in Psycho II (1982), is very much in evidence throughout Road Games
While making Patrick, Richard Franklin gave Everett De Roche a copy of Rear Window as an example of how he wanted the script typed. De Roche loved the script and said he wanted to do a film like it set on a truck.[2] He came up with the idea and developed it with Franklin in Fiji where the latter was co-producing The Blue Lagoon (1980).[1] De Roche would write in a hotel while Franklin worked on the unit and visited him periodically; the first draft was written in eight days.[3]
The budget of $1.75 million was at the time the highest ever for an Australian film. Avco Embassy paid $500,000 for all rights outside Australia and the balance came from the Greater Union, the Australian Film Commission, the Victorian Film Corporation and the Western Australian Film Council.[1]
Richard Franklin wanted to cast Sean Connery in the lead role but was unable to afford his salary so Stacy Keach was chosen instead. Australian actress Lisa Peers was cast to play opposite him but the US distributors insisted on an American co-star so Franklin went with Jamie Lee Curtis.[4] The film ran into trouble with Actors Equity when the Melbourne branch of the union approved the importation but the Sydney branch opposed it. "We found ourselves as the ping-pong ball in a game of politics between Melbourne and Sydney, and it nearly resulted in the film closing down," said Franklin.[3]
The movie was shot on location in the Nullabor Plain and in Melbourne. Franklin later admitted he wished he had increased the size of Curtis' part to take more advantage of her.
Release Date: February 8, 1982 @ Embassy 72nd Street
Distrib: Avco Embassy
One game kills time - The other kills people!
On the world's loneliest highway it's not a game - it's murder!
Hollywood's Stacy Keach stars in Australia's Road Games. Keach is a truck driver who takes the law in his own hands to capture a serial killer. When the police fail to nab the murderer of hitchhikers, Keach takes to the road, conducting his own search. En route, he picks up hitcher Jamie Lee Curtis--and it is her presence that brings the killer out of hiding and into the bloody finale. Director Richard Franklin's fondness for Hitchcock, which would come to full fruition in Psycho II (1982), is very much in evidence throughout Road Games
While making Patrick, Richard Franklin gave Everett De Roche a copy of Rear Window as an example of how he wanted the script typed. De Roche loved the script and said he wanted to do a film like it set on a truck.[2] He came up with the idea and developed it with Franklin in Fiji where the latter was co-producing The Blue Lagoon (1980).[1] De Roche would write in a hotel while Franklin worked on the unit and visited him periodically; the first draft was written in eight days.[3]
The budget of $1.75 million was at the time the highest ever for an Australian film. Avco Embassy paid $500,000 for all rights outside Australia and the balance came from the Greater Union, the Australian Film Commission, the Victorian Film Corporation and the Western Australian Film Council.[1]
Richard Franklin wanted to cast Sean Connery in the lead role but was unable to afford his salary so Stacy Keach was chosen instead. Australian actress Lisa Peers was cast to play opposite him but the US distributors insisted on an American co-star so Franklin went with Jamie Lee Curtis.[4] The film ran into trouble with Actors Equity when the Melbourne branch of the union approved the importation but the Sydney branch opposed it. "We found ourselves as the ping-pong ball in a game of politics between Melbourne and Sydney, and it nearly resulted in the film closing down," said Franklin.[3]
The movie was shot on location in the Nullabor Plain and in Melbourne. Franklin later admitted he wished he had increased the size of Curtis' part to take more advantage of her.
Release Date: February 8, 1982 @ Embassy 72nd Street
Distrib: Avco Embassy
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