Roadgames (1981)
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A truck driver crosses the Australian outback with only a dingo for company, making up stories about the cars he passes to stay sane. Then one of his stories turns out to be true.
ROADGAMES (1981) stars Stacy Keach as Pat Quid, hauling a load of pork from Melbourne to Perth with his dingo, Boswell, riding beside him. He becomes convinced that a fellow driver on the same stretch of highway is a killer murdering women along the road. Jamie Lee Curtis plays Hitch, a hitchhiker who climbs into his cab and gets pulled into his suspicions, until the police begin to suspect Quid himself.
Richard Franklin directed from a script by Everett De Roche that retools Hitchcock's Rear Window into a chase down one of the most isolated roads on earth. Vincent Monton's cinematography makes the desert feel both vast and closed in, and Brian May's score (the Australian composer, not the Queen guitarist) keeps the tension running at highway speed.
Roadgames remains one of the sharpest Hitchcock homages to come out of the Australian film industry's boom years.
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About the film
The truck driver plays games. The hitchhiker plays games. And the killer is playing the deadliest game of all!
- Directed by
- Richard Franklin
- Runtime
- 101 minutes
- Released
- February 27, 1981
- US theatrical
- November 19, 1981
- Certification
- PG
- Country
- Australia
- Starring
- Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward, Grant Page, Thaddeus Smith
More credits
- Genres
- Mystery, Thriller, Horror
- Language
- English
- Origin
- AU
- Studios
- Essaness Pictures, GUO, Quest Productions
- Written by
- Everett De Roche
- Produced by
- Bernard Schwartz, Richard Franklin
- Cinematography
- Vincent Monton
- Music
- Brian May
- Also starring
- Steve Millichamp, Alan Hopgood, John Murphy, Bill Stacey, Robert Thompson
- Budget
- $1,750,000
- Box office
- $100,000
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Didn’t this get Franklin the directing gig for Psycho II ?
Whatever happened to him?
Richard Fitzgerald That’s right – Psycho II followed shortly after. He passed away in 2007 – looks like most of his later work was in TV.
Anywhere But Hollywood a shame he died so young
Classic! Actually I think I walked in partway through the movie, I should really watch it from the start sometime
Good film well worth watching.
i just saw this. it was weird and i liked it for that.
Stacy Keach is really awesome in this. He’s practically in every scene.
Superior thriller and the Australian outback makes for such an unu setting for a slasher of that era, especially with the American lead cast.
This movie is a lot funnier than I thought it would be
Pat Quid. Great character.
Footage of him driving down into the valley of Bacchus marsh back when it was dairy country at the start.
Great movie. I love the line Keach has about his name:
“No, QUID! Like money.”
Considering Australia uses dollars despite being a British Colony.