If you're going to race with the devil, you've got to be as fast as Hell!
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
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- John Chardon TMDB · Nov 20138/10
Get your motors running, get out on the highway. Because Old Nick is coming to get yah! Race with the Devil is directed by Jack Starrett and written by Wes Bishop and Lee Frost. It stars Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker and R.G. Armstrong. A Panavision/ DeLuxe Colour production, music is by Leonard Rosenman and cinematography by Robert Jessop. Two vacationing couples have to flee for their lives when they witness a ritualistic slaying by occultists. Great fun. A raging "B" movie for the 70s drive-in crowd that tapped into the decades new found taste for the occult and highway speeding. Film is cloaked with a paranoia vibe as our two frantic couples desperately try to stay out of the clutches of Satanists. Life and death confrontations come and go, and as they are never sure who is in league with the hooded blood drinkers, they have to assume that they alone must fight the good fight. It all builds to a crescendo of exciting vehicle carnage, which in turn leads to the final denouement, which quite frankly is frustratingly brilliant. Oates and Fonda entertain with brisk and airy performances, though Swit and Parker are really only directed to be screaming banshees
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Cast
- Peter FondaRoger
- Warren OatesFrank
- Loretta SwitAlice
- Lara ParkerKelly
- R.G. ArmstrongSheriff Taylor
- Clay TannerDelbert
- Carol BlodgettEthel Henderson
- Phil HooverMechanic
- Ricci WareRicci Ware
- Paul A. PartainCal Mathers
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- Jack StarrettDirector
- Wes BishopScreenplay
- Lee FrostScreenplay
- Robert C. JessupDirector of Photography
- Leonard RosenmanOriginal Music Composer
- John F. LinkEditor
- Wes BishopProducer
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