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In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of survivors travel and find other settlements in huge custom designed all terrain vehicles.In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of survivors travel and find other settlements in huge custom designed all terrain vehicles.In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of survivors travel and find other settlements in huge custom designed all terrain vehicles.
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Robert Hackman
- Colonel
- (as Bob Hackman)
Terence Locke
- Air Policeman
- (as Terrence Locke)
Roger Creed
- Mountain Man
- (uncredited)
Ulf Kjell Gür
- Musician
- (uncredited)
Murray Hamilton
- Gen. Landers
- (uncredited)
Daina House
- Playboy Centerfold
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe 12-wheeled "Landmaster" vehicle used in the film was created by Jefferies Automotive in Universal City, California. Despite the appearance of two "Landmasters" in the film, only one was built at a cost of $300,000 in 1976. The Landmaster is powered by a 391 cubic-inch Ford industrial engine, and features a fully-functional, custom-built "tristar" wheel arrangement, which could actually help it "crawl" over boulders. It also used an innovative steering mechanism that guided the vehicle, not by the front wheels, but by "bending" the middle section with hydraulic rams to affect a turn. The Landmaster's bodywork was made with 3/8-inch steel plating, which helped it tip the scales at over 10 tons. It was so tough, in fact, that it survived a 25-foot jump during testing with no damage. Once filming was completed in 1976, the Landmaster sat outside Jeffries Automotive for over 25 years, occasionally being used for television series and commercials. In 2005, it was purchased by a collector in Sacramento, California, and restored to a similar (but not exact) condition as it was for filming. After making an occasional local car show appearances, the Landmaster was vandalized while in storage, and then sold to legendary automobile customizer Gene Winfield. As of 2023, the original "Landmaster" is alive and well, and is available for public viewing at Gene Winfield's Custom Shop in Mojave, California, 100 miles north of Los Angeles. It is missing the rocket launcher and machine guns as seen in the film, but is otherwise intact and drivable.
- GoofsIn the sequence with Tanner on the motorcycle with a female mannequin in the desert with the giant scorpions, in some shots it is a real woman instead of a mannequin on the motorcycle with Tanner.
- Quotes
Maj. Eugene Denton: Tanner this is Denton! This whole town is infested with killer cockroaches. I repeat: KILLER COCKROACHES!
- Crazy creditsOpening credits prologue: 123rd STRATEGIC MISSILE WING TIPTON AFB, CALIFORNIA
- ConnectionsEdited from When Worlds Collide (1951)
- SoundtracksWill the Circle Be Unbroken
Christian Hymn (1907)
Lyrics by Ada R. Habershon
Music by Charles H. Gabriel
Performed by Jan-Michael Vincent and Paul Winfield
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An early post-apocalypse bit of sci-fi that is more fun that its given credit for
Damnation Alley was quite an unlucky movie seemingly, it was put out with the idea that it would be another profitable sci-fi b-movie but unfortunately for it, a few weeks before it was released a movie called Star Wars was released which changed the rules for sci-fi forever more. To be honest though, I kind of like this one. It has its own significant factors too, for instance it's quite early in the cycle of post-apocalypse movies - the Mad Max series certainly seems to have borrowed some of its ideas – and so I think it's fair to say that its core look and feel went on to be used in quite a few similar movies in the 80's. Its story starts with a nuclear war devastating the world, leaving a small band of survivors in a desert outpost. After a while they are forced to set off on a journey to try and find other survivors in an all-terrain vehicle.
This one has a plot that boils down to a succession of set-pieces strung together along a hazardous trek. It's essentially a road movie...without a road. Along the way our heroes battle giant scorpions, swarms of flesh-eating cockroaches, mutant feral humans and they endure an electrical storm. They also pick up a woman and an incredibly annoying teenage boy. The film is chock full of corny dialogue and charmingly poor special effects but it remains entertaining nevertheless with good pacing and enough variety of events to ensure things remain interesting. It has to be admitted though that it does end with a very poorly conceived conclusion that felt like it was tagged on because the original idea was too expensive. But on the whole, I found this to be good fun mainly, certainly a fair bit better than its poor reputation suggests.
This one has a plot that boils down to a succession of set-pieces strung together along a hazardous trek. It's essentially a road movie...without a road. Along the way our heroes battle giant scorpions, swarms of flesh-eating cockroaches, mutant feral humans and they endure an electrical storm. They also pick up a woman and an incredibly annoying teenage boy. The film is chock full of corny dialogue and charmingly poor special effects but it remains entertaining nevertheless with good pacing and enough variety of events to ensure things remain interesting. It has to be admitted though that it does end with a very poorly conceived conclusion that felt like it was tagged on because the original idea was too expensive. But on the whole, I found this to be good fun mainly, certainly a fair bit better than its poor reputation suggests.
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- Mar 17, 2017
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- Straße der Verdammnis
- Filming locations
- Somers, Montana, USA(Lake scenes)
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- Budget
- $7,200,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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