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Release Date:
26 June 1981 (Australia)
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Tagline:
The truck driver plays games... The hitchhiker plays games. And the killer is playing the deadliest game of all! more
Plot:
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer who uses a young female hitchhiker as bait to lure victims on a desolate Australian highway. full summary | add synopsis
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6 nominations
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(6 articles)
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Under rated road movie thriller with Hitchcockian trappings
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Stacy Keach | ... | Patrick 'Pat' Quid | |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | ... | Pamela 'Hitch' Rushworth | |
| Marion Edward | ... | Madeleine 'Frita' Day | |
| Grant Page | ... | Smith or Jones | |
| Thaddeus Smith | ... | Policeman 'Abbott' | |
| Steve Millichamp | ... | Policeman 'Costello' (as Stephen Millichamp) | |
| Alan Hopgood | ... | Lester | |
| John Murphy | ... | Benny Balls | |
| Bill Stacey | ... | Captain Careful | |
| Robert Thompson | ... | Sneezy Rider | |
| Ed Turley | ... | Roadhouse Proprietor | |
| Angelica La Bozzetta | ... | Young Hitchhiker (as Angie La Bozzetta) | |
| Colin Vancao | ... | Fred Frugal | |
| Paul Harris | ... | Frugal Son | |
| Rochelle Harris | ... | Frugal Daughter |
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Road Games (USA)
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101 min | Sweden:93 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Norway:16 (original rating) |
Iceland:16 |
West Germany:12 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:15 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:PG |
UK:AA
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Richard Franklin and Everett De Roche developed the character of Quid with Sean Connery in mind for the part. Of course the films budget wouldn't allow it.
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Continuity: Pamela begins writing "TOMORROW'S BACON" on the door of the truck in close-up, the camera then cuts to a longer distance shot of her completing the word "bacon" but the way the letters are styled do not match the close-up.
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Patrick 'Pat' Quid:
[offering a treat to his dog Boswell] Hors d'ouevre, Boswell?
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Featured in Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)
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Road Games is an Ok suspense film by Hitchcock disciple Richard Franklin (see also Psycho II, Link, FX II:The Deadly Art of Illusion). It features a good performance by Stacy Keach as a lone truck driver transporting bacon across the Australian outback during a butcher's strike. Every now and then, Keach comes across other travellers on the road, one of whom is the driver of a mysterious green van. Keach, having heard about a serial killer on the loose on his radio, convinces himself that the driver of the green van is also the murderer the police are looking for. However, Keach takes such ludicrous and unorthodox actions to prove his theory that he ends up making himself look like the culprit.
The main theme here of an innocent man being mistaken for a murderer is as old as the hills. The freshness of this film is provided principally by the unconventional locale (Aussie outback) and the outlandish set of supporting characters introduced during the course of the film. The suspense is good during the main scenes, but in between the film loses momentum. Hardly surprising, since Keach spends much of the film alone, chatting away to himself and his pet dingo in the cab of his truck. Listening to a man talkking to himself is hardly the best way to build excitement. However, you can feel a prickle of terror in your heart during one particularly hair raising sequence in which Keach investigates a peculiar sound in the back of his lorry.
I like this film, but it's no classic. Just one of those quiet, forgotten gems that film buffs ought to seek out for a rainy day.