Movie
Roadgames
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1981-02-27
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Genres
- Mystery, Thriller, Horror
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Essaness Pictures, GUO, Quest Productions
- Country
- Australia
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Stacy Keach as Patrick 'Pat' Quid
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Pamela 'Hitch' Rushworth
- Marion Edward as Madeleine 'Frita' Day
- Grant Page as Smith or Jones
- Thaddeus Smith as Policeman 'Abbott'
- Steve Millichamp as Policeman 'Costello'
- Alan Hopgood as Lester
- John Murphy as Benny Balls
- Bill Stacey as Captain Careful
- Robert Thompson as Sneezy Rider
- Ed Turley as Roadhouse Proprietor
- Angelica La Bozzetta as Young Hitchhiker
Crew
- Richard Franklin - Director
- Everett De Roche - Screenplay
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