Damnation Alley (1977)

User Rating:

4.6/10   

Director:

Jack Smight

Writers:

Roger Zelazny (novel)
Alan Sharp (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

21 October 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

You have seen great adventures. You are about to live one.

Plot:

In an post-apocalyptic world, a group of survivors travel and find other settlements in huge custom designed all terrain vehicles.

Plot Keywords:

Travel | Desert | Post Apocalyptic | Post Nuclear | Animal Attack

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Jan-Michael Vincent	...	Tanner
George Peppard	...	Maj. Eugene Denton
Dominique Sanda	...	Janice
Paul Winfield	...	Keegan
Jackie Earle Haley	...	Billy
Kip Niven	...	Airman Tom Perry
Robert Donner	...	Man / Guard
Seamon Glass	...	Mountain Man #2
Trent Dolan	...	Technician
Mark L. Taylor	...	Haskins
Bob Hackman	...	Colonel
Terence Locke	...	Air Policeman
Marcia Holley	...	Gloria
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Erik Cord	...	Burning Man

Also Known As:

Survival Run

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Sound 360°

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Norway:16 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

The movie sat on the shelf at 20th Century Fox for some time after production was completed in 1976. Fox had high hopes for it on its release in 1977, expecting it to do better at the box office in comparison to Fox' other sci-fi release scheduled for that year... Star Wars (1977)

Quotes:

Tanner: [the Landmaster refugees are being waylaid by the "Mountain Men" in the desert] How long have you men been here?
Man: Since everything went to hell.

Movie Connections:

Edited from Earthquake (1974)

If Irwin Allen Combined Mad Max, Deliverance & Them

This notoriously hard to get (at least legitimately) movie follows the travails of five nuke apocalypse survivors in the late 1970s. Their task is to drive their armored personnel vehicle cum Winnabago from Bakersfield CA to Albany NY. On the way they stop off in Vegas, Salt Lake City and Detriot bumping into maniac mutant cockroaches and some radioactive hillbillies along the way. 99% of the time the sky is a swirling orangish red that transfers its Gatorade hues to most sequences in this movie. The locations are all dust, sand and rock... this is after all Damnation Alley and the Earth has been tilted off its axis. An absolute trash B movie that I'm sure many of those associated with would rather forget, it is nonetheless hugely compelling. After viewing you can appreciate the cult classic status of this film, yet to not be entirely sure why that is so.