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Writers:
Robert Presnell Jr. (writer)
Eugene Price (writer)
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Release Date:
3 December 1976 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
A disaster movie opening with an enormous multi-vehicle crash on a Californian highway. After the opening stunt-filled action... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Sian Barbara Allen ... Barbara Hutton

Jeff Chamberlain
Robert Conrad ... Sergeant Sam Marcum
Cindy Daly ... Debbie
Bonnie Ebsen ... Penny

Buddy Ebsen ... Al Pearson
Herb Edelman ... Danny
David Groh ... Dale
Barry Hamilton ... Randy
Harriet Hilliard ... June Pearson (as Harriet Nelson)
Scott Jacoby ... Lee Bassett

Tommy Lee Jones ... Officer Hutton
Joe Kapp ... Officer Estevez
Sue Lyon ... Burnsey

Vera Miles ... Erica
Donna Mills ... Laureen
Terry Moore ... Trudy
David Nelson ... Officer Berman
George O'Hanlon Jr. ... Pete (as George O'Hanlon)
Joel Parks ... Andy
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Runtime:
USA:100 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Interstate 210, La Crescenta, California, USA
Company:
Filmways Television more

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Trivia:
Interstate 5 runs north-south on the west coast of the United States paralleling US Route 101 from the Mexican to the Canadian borders connecting the cites of San Diego, Los Angeles, Sacramento (California), Medford, Eugene, Salem, Portland (Oregon), Tacoma, Seattle, Everett and Bellingham (Washington). more

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An impressive all-star TV cast makes this movie of the week worth watching..., 14 August 2006
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Author: Isaac5855 from United States

SMASH-UP ON INTERSTATE 5 was one of the most entertaining entries on the Tuesday and Wednesday Movies of the Week. This episodic drama, somehow economically told in 90 minutes, opens with a spectacular 39-car crash on a deserted stretch of highway. The film then flashes back 48 hours before the crash occurs and through multiple stories we get to meet all of the people involved in the crash and what they were going through at the time of the crash. The impressive all-star cast includes Vera Miles, Robert Conrad, Donna Mills, Buddy Ebsen, David Groh, Scott Jacoby, and there's an especially lovely turn by Harriet Nelson, widow of TV icon Ozzie Nelson. I like the way this movie showed us the crash first and then took us back. For some reason, it made us care even more about these people, knowing what was ahead for them.

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