The Car

19771977
PGPG
1h 36min

The Car (1977)

Official Trailer

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Action Horror Mystery

A small desert town is terrorized by a powerful, seemingly possessed car, and the local sheriff may be the only one who can stop it.A small desert town is terrorized by a powerful, seemingly possessed car, and the local sheriff may be the only one who can stop it.A small desert town is terrorized by a powerful, seemingly possessed car, and the local sheriff may be the only one who can stop it.

Director
- Elliot Silverstein
Writers
- Dennis Shryack(screenplay)
- Michael Butler(screenplay)
- Lane Slate(screenplay)
Stars

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The Car: Road to Revenge

4.0

The Car: Road to Revenge

Race with the Devil

6.6

Race with the Devil

Duel

7.6

Christine

6.7

The Car

Prophecy

5.5

Horror Express

6.5

Lifeforce

6.2

Phantasm

6.7

The Fog

6.8

Grizzly

5.3

The Howling

6.6

A small desert town is terrorized by a powerful, seemingly possessed car, and the local sheriff may be the only one who can stop it.

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Taglines
- Is it a phantom, a demon, or the Devil himself?
Genres
Certificate
- PG
Parents guide

Trivia
Car cost $84,000.00 to build.

Goofs
When Chas drops Lauren off at her home to collect things to spend the night with Wade's children while Wade's in the hospital, her home appears to be the center house in either a dead end or cul-de-sac; however, when The Car flies/drives through her home to kill her and lands on the other side of her house, it lands on a highway and drives away as if her house was built on a straight roadway.

Quotes
Donna: Wade... there's something I... I wanna tell you about last night. Well, the old lady... well, Chas, he didn't translate everything that she said.
Wade Parent: What do you mean?
Donna: Well, uh... she said... there was no driver in the car.

Crazy credits
Over the end credits, a camera follows The Car as it travels through a major city, suggesting it escaped from its entombment.

Alternate versions
The NBC edited for TV version of this film includes some additional scenes to pad out the movie due to needed commercial breaks. The aforementioned additional scenes were during the cemetery standoff between the school band and the Car. The part where Lauren is insulting and taunting the Car is longer and there is a short dialog between her and her friend Margie planning on how one of them will run out and escape to call for help. These are not on the official 1999 DVD/VHS release.

Connections
Edited into Knight Rider: Trust Doesn't Rust (1982)

Soundtracks
Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op.46: I. 'Morning'
(uncredited)
Music by Edvard Grieg

Top review

What is the car? It's a Barris.

Designed for the movie "The Car" starring James Brolin. Made from a 1971 Lincoln. Fenders were 20 gauge steel shaped over the original body. The grill was hand made from square steel tubing. 4 bumpers made from heavy 18 gauge steel. Seven inch single headlights sunk behind the grill and fender. Body was raised to upper doorline. Four radius wheel wells around a six inch reverse deep chrome wheels and Goodrich tires.

Top was chopped 4 inches with all black transparent windows. Full body roll bars installed over and around stunt driver. A steel tube canon was installed on passenger side which had a telephone pole inside and steel cap which housed dynamite and black powder. When the stunt man rolled the car he would trigger the tube telephone pole by igniting the dynamite which drove the pole into the ground and roll the car 5 times. Finished with 20 coats of black pearl lacquer. A total of four were made.

I love this particular custom. Its looks mean and growls nicely. Too bad i can't afford it.

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willybgood
Oct 11, 2003

What kind of car is "The Car", anyway?

Release date
- May 13, 1977 (United States)
Country of origin
- United States
Official site
- -The official trailer
Language
- English
Also known as
- Wheels
Filming locations
- Snow Canyon, Utah, USA
Production company
- Universal Pictures
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Runtime
- 1h 36min
Sound mix
- Mono
- 4-Track Stereo
Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1

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