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Damnation Alley (1977)
Director: Jack Smight
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Insanely jettisoning the Hell's Angel protagonist of Roger Zelazny's cult novel of a post-holocaust odyssey, this dire slice of uninspired sci-fi tracks an amphibious armoured truck from a California missile base cross-country towards the source of taped signs of life in Albany, NY. Military redneck Peppard and rebel Vincent gather a model post-nuclear family (one black, one woman, one kid) like tokens en route, hampered by appalling process work and by derivative confrontations with mutant mountain men and man-eating cockroaches. A real mess.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Jack Smight
Producer: Jerome M Zeitman, Paul Maslansky
Cast: Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard, Dominique Sanda, Paul Winfield, Jackie Earle Haley, Kip Niven full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 91 mins
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