Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaFlashbacks profile California motorists involved in a disastrous 39-car smash-up over a holiday weekend.Flashbacks profile California motorists involved in a disastrous 39-car smash-up over a holiday weekend.Flashbacks profile California motorists involved in a disastrous 39-car smash-up over a holiday weekend.
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- CuriosidadesThe exact site of the smash up is on the westbound side of Interstate 210 in La Crescenta, California, approximately one mile before the Sunland Boulevard exit. The freeway was under construction during filming in 1976, and was not open from Lowell Avenue to Sunland Boulevard. Corvette Summer (1978) used this same section of Interstate 210 in that film's finale.
- Erros de gravaçãoFor the entire film, Sgt. Marcam's CHP cruiser is a then-new 1976 Dodge Monaco (an intermediate sized car). For the crash sequence at the end of the film, his car changes into a much larger 1973 Dodge Polara (no doubt a budget consideration, as the car is wrecked).
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Barbara Hutton: Sam... Jimmy... Where's Jimmy?... Why isn't Jimmy here?..Somebody better tell me.
Sergeant Sam Marcum: Barbara there was a shooting incident. He was on his way here... There was a shooting incident.
Barbara Hutton: Shot?
Sergeant Sam Marcum: [Sergeant Marcum knods his head yes ever so slightly]
Barbara Hutton: He's dead. He was on his way over here.
[breaks down crying]
Barbara Hutton: Oh God! Oh God! He never got to see the baby. He's dead. He never even got to see the baby!
Next, we're shown the lives of the victims, two days before the incident. This is made up of a true, all-star cast of 1970's TV luminaries, elder stars, and future celebrities.
Robert Conrad is a highway patrolman. Vera Miles is the lonely Erica. Scott Jacoby is a small-time crook, who got mixed up with a fugitive from justice. Buddy Ebson and Harriet Nelson are a loving, retired couple. David Groh is a trucker. Sue Lyon is a biker chick.
Even the co-stars are great! There's an impossibly young, Tommy Lee Jones as a cop, and Donna Mills as a pediatric nurse!
Unlike many such films, the individual backstories are actually interesting. The characters are fleshed-out well, and carry on intelligent conversations. We come to "know" and care about these people. So, when disaster strikes, it's tragic, and not just another action sequence.
Highly recommended, especially for the 1970's TV-movie connoisseur...
- azathothpwiggins
- 11 de jul. de 2021
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- Interstate 210, La Crescenta, Califórnia, EUA(site of smash-up: westbound between La Tuna Canyon and Sunland Boulevard exits)
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