
“The truck driver plays games. The hitchhiker plays games. And the killer is playing the deadliest game of all!”
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.
Release Date: 2/27/1981
Runtime: 101 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Richard Franklin
Budget: $1.8M
Revenue: $0.1M
Companies: Essaness Pictures, GUO, Quest Productions
Countries: Australia
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Uneven suspense-thriller does feature a fine performance from Stacy Keach but otherwise pretty disappointing as I normally enjoy these sorts of thrillers. Also has characters making bizarre, though luckily ultimately correct choices... **2.75/5**
Grant Page
Smith or Jones

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'

Alan Hopgood
Lester

John Murphy
Benny Balls
Bill Stacey
Captain Careful

Robert Thompson
Sneezy Rider
Ed Turley
Roadhouse Proprietor
Angelica La Bozzetta
Young Hitchhiker
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