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01/04/1981 Action, Adventure, Science Fiction 1h 41m
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The oil finally ran out... and somewhere in the future, the chase has begun.

Overview

Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public transportation, rebuilds his race car and sets off to California from Boston where people have returned to living life like they were twenty years prior.

  1. Martyn Burke

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Lee Majors

    Franklyn Hart

  2. Burgess Meredith

    Captain J.G. Williams

  3. Chris Makepeace

    Ring

  4. Alexandra Stewart

    Eudora

  5. Trudy Young

    Mrs. Hart

  6. Diane D'Aquila

    Santana

  7. George Touliatos

    Hawkins

  8. Harvey Atkin

    Jud

  9. Ben Gordon

    Morely

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-08-31
From six million dollars to six million pennies, well that’s just the first journey Lee Majors makes as this frankly pretty silly dystopian drama sees him try to escape to “Free California” in his Porsche (complete with plenty of product placement). You see, their United States has run out of oil and cars are banned. Given his has probably got a V12 engine, he isn’t flavour of the month with the authorities as he and his newfound protégé “Ring” (Chris Makepeace) race along the long abandoned (but perfectly maintained) highways to their destination. Meantime, the ace-pilot “J.G....read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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