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| AVCO Embassy Pictures | Release Date: November 19, 1981 |
Starring:
Alan Hopgood, Bill Stacey, Grant Page, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Murphy, Marion Edward, Robert Thompson, Stacy Keach, Steve Millichamp, Thaddeus Smith
Summary:
A truck driver (Stacy Keach) plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer on a desolate Australian highway.
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One terrific moment in which Pat sees what he believes are the killer's shoes underneath a toilet stall door and berates him while Pamela climbs into the green van outside is reminiscent of another scene that arrived years later and was also labelled "Hitchcockian" – the footsteps down the hallway confrontation in the Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men.
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Stacy Keach engages in highway warfare in Road Games, an Australian thriller that drums up suspense from its assured plotting and direction, and generates humor from its star’s charismatic lead performance...Taut all the way through to its well-staged finale, it’s a superior genre import—and one that also features, in Quid’s silent travel partner Boswell, the finest big-screen performance ever by a dingo.
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Suspenseful throughout most of its running time and exceedingly well shot, ROAD GAMES collapses at the end. The confrontation between Keach and the killer is a let-down. Although director Franklin has definitely studied his Hitchcock (he would go on to direct PSYCHO II), his film lacks the psychological depth of the master's work. Keach, however, is very engaging as the eccentric hero.
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