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The California Kid is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Richard T. Heffron released in USA on 25 september 1974 with Martin Sheen
The California Kid (1974)
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Add to a movie listThe California Kid is a 1974 TV movie starring Martin Sheen, Vic Morrow, Nick Nolte, Michelle Phillips, Gary Morgan, and Janit Baldwin.
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The story takes place in 1958, and involves a town, Clarksburg, California, with a famous speed trap, in which a disturbed Sheriff Roy Childress (Vic Morrow), whose wife and daughter were killed by a speeder, turns bad, with a habit of deliberately punishing speeders by pushing their cars off the mountain highway in his 1957 Plymouth Belvedere.Actors
Martin Sheen
(Michael McCord)
Vic Morrow
(Sheriff Roy Childress)
Michelle Phillips
(Maggie)
Nick Nolte
(Buzz Stafford)
Stuart Margolin
(Deputy)
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