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Smash-Up on Interstate 5 is a american film of genre Drama directed by John Llewellyn Moxey released in USA on 3 december 1976 with Robert Conrad
Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976)
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Add to a movie listSmash-Up on Interstate 5 is a 1976 made-for-TV disaster film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey. Based on the novel Expressway written by Trevor Dudley Smith, the film chronicles the aftermath of a 39 car smash-up in California.
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The film is set on Interstate 5 in California on the day of July 4, 24 hours before the summer vacation will officially commence. From the beginning, California Highway Patrol sergeant Sam Marcum (Robert Conrad) announces in a voice-over that a 39 car smash-up will be the cause of 62 injured people and fourteen deaths. A selection of the people involved are followed up to 48 hours preceding the accident. Other than Sam, who is chasing the murderer of his colleague on the highway, the film focuses on the elderly couple Al and June Pearson (Buddy Ebsen and Harriet Nelson), who are setting out to a beach resort to forget the fact that June is suffering from a terminal disease. Meanwhile, a woman named Erica (Vera Miles) is troubled by a gang of bikers including rebellious Burnsey (Sue Lyon), when she is rescued by young Dale (David Groh). In other sub-plots, Lee Bassett (Scott Jacoby) becomes a murder suspect when he is forced to pick up a young couple on the run, Penny and Pete (Bonnie Ebsen and George O'Hanlon, Jr.). Laureen (Donna Mills), a nurse with feelings for Sam, struggles with doubts of marrying him. Barbara Hutton (Sian Barbara Allen), a young mother, is panicked when she finds her husband Jimmy (Tommy Lee Jones), an officer, shot. All these stories come together when a massive car crash changes their lives for good.Actors
Robert Conrad
(Sergeant Sam Marcum)
Vera Miles
(Erica)
Buddy Ebsen
(Al Pearson)
Herb Edelman
(Danny)
David Groh
(Dale)
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