Roadgames (1981) on Netflix
PG19811h 41mHorrorMysteryThriller
Pat Quid drives a semi across Australia with his dingo. A man in a green van keeps crossing his route, and news of a serial killer puts Quid on the van's trail.
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- Netflix4.0/5
- IMDb6.6/1011,152 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes92%
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Plot summary
Pat Quid is an American truck driver hauling a load of pork across Australia toward Perth. On the long highway he passes the same travelers and hitchhikers again and again. He fills the hours by making up backgrounds for the people he sees. A man in a green van keeps appearing along the route. When Quid gives a lift to the hitchhiker Pamela Rushworth, he tells her his suspicion that the van driver is the serial killer the radio describes.
Cast
- Marion Edwardas Frita
- Thaddeus Smithas Police
- Steve Millichampas Police
- Bill Staceyas Captain Careful
- Robert Thompsonas Sneezy Rider
- Ed Turleyas Roadhouse Proprietor
- Angelica La Bozzettaas Hitchhiker
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Roadgames (1981)
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- Richard Franklin wanted Sean Connery for the lead of Roadgames but could not afford his salary, so the part went to Stacy Keach.
- Actors Equity nearly shut Roadgames down: the Melbourne branch approved importing Jamie Lee Curtis, the Sydney branch opposed it, and Franklin called the film a ping-pong ball in a political game.
- Australian actress Lisa Peers was cast opposite Stacy Keach, but US distributors demanded an American co-star, so Richard Franklin cast Jamie Lee Curtis instead.
- Roadgames did not perform as well as expected in the US, which Richard Franklin blamed on its marketing as a slasher film, yet it led to him landing the job of directing Psycho II in 1983.
- Quentin Tarantino has cited Roadgames as one of his favorite films, and it influenced Australian director Greg McLean's debut feature Wolf Creek (2005).
