The Car
1977·United States·96 min.
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While traveling through the desert nearby the small town of Santa Ynez on their bicycles to camp, two teenage bicyclers are murdered by a mysterious black car. Then the car hit-and-run a hitchhiker and the crime is witnessed by the local Amos Clements. Sheriff Everett puts his men in alert and plans road blocks in the area to arrest the murderer. Sooner he becomes a victim of the car and Sheriff Wade Parent begins a hunting of the vehicle that is threatening his town and seems to be impossible to be located. When his beloved girlfriend and teacher Lauren challenges the driver in a cemetery, the car hunts her in her home and Wade realizes that he might be dealing with supernatural powers.
DirectorElliot Silverstein
MusicLeonard Rosenman
CinematographyGerald Hirschfeld
CastJames Brolin·Kathleen Lloyd·John Marley·Ronny Cox·R.G. Armstrong·John Rubinstein·Elizabeth Thompson·Roy Jenson·Kim Richards·Kate Murtagh·Robert Phillips·Doris DowlingShow all
Original titleThe Car