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ROADGAMES
1981
Director
Richard Franklin
Starring
Stacey Keach
Jamie Lee Curtis
Marion Edward
Grant Page
Runtime
101 MINUTES
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Alfred Hitchcock had many appreciators and imitators, but few directors could legitimately claim to be a true "student" or "scholar" of the master of suspense. Australian filmmaker Richard Franklin was a rare exception. Having studied under Hitch himself, Franklin’s body of work is eclectic, ranging from junky Ozploitation to prestigious drama to the actual sequel to PYSCHO. But Franklin’s magnum opus, and his most distinctively Hitchcockian film, has to be the 1981 masterpiece ROADGAMES.
Pat Quid (Stacey Keach) and his dingo haul meat across Australia, whiling away the hours playing car classics such as "I Spy", "Punch-Buggy" and "Being Stalked By A Serial Killer," in this Ozzy riff on REAR WINDOW. Quid, an American trucker, believes he is hot on the trail of a possible maniac-on-the-loose in the wide expanse of the open road when he circuitously passes an increasingly suspicious man traveling in a green van. So, rather than doing his job and hauling a semi full of frozen pigs to Perth, Quid plays amateur sleuth and quickly finds himself in over his head.
Sharply written by Everett De Roche, ROADGAMES creates tension not only from Quid’s pursuit of the would-be serial killer, but from his menacing repeat encounters with a repertory company’s worth of fellow drivers making the same grueling journey across the long, empty roads of the outback. Jamie Lee Curtis is the hitchhiking sidekick. Real-life StuntGod™ Grant Page is behind the wheel of a menacing van. And there’s a whole lot of highway for terror to hit top speed. Oh and btw… ROADGAMES also features, in Quid’s silent travel partner Boswell, the finest big-screen performance ever by a dingo.
Pat Quid (Stacey Keach) and his dingo haul meat across Australia, whiling away the hours playing car classics such as "I Spy", "Punch-Buggy" and "Being Stalked By A Serial Killer," in this Ozzy riff on REAR WINDOW. Quid, an American trucker, believes he is hot on the trail of a possible maniac-on-the-loose in the wide expanse of the open road when he circuitously passes an increasingly suspicious man traveling in a green van. So, rather than doing his job and hauling a semi full of frozen pigs to Perth, Quid plays amateur sleuth and quickly finds himself in over his head.
Sharply written by Everett De Roche, ROADGAMES creates tension not only from Quid’s pursuit of the would-be serial killer, but from his menacing repeat encounters with a repertory company’s worth of fellow drivers making the same grueling journey across the long, empty roads of the outback. Jamie Lee Curtis is the hitchhiking sidekick. Real-life StuntGod™ Grant Page is behind the wheel of a menacing van. And there’s a whole lot of highway for terror to hit top speed. Oh and btw… ROADGAMES also features, in Quid’s silent travel partner Boswell, the finest big-screen performance ever by a dingo.