Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which there are no rules, no speed limits and no heed for the law. En route, Buckman jockeys with an international ensemble of racers for a $100,000 purse. But there are none more important than Cade Redman, his direct competition for a guaranteed spot on the elite Modern Motors racing team.
Stunts
Real cars genuinely destroyed, no CGI in sight
Direction
Paul Bartel's cult weirdness meets Roger Corman cheapness
Director
Paul Bartel
David Carradine
Coy "Cannonball" Buckman
Bill McKinney
Cade Redman
Veronica Hamel
Linda Maxwell
Gerrit Graham
Perman Waters
Robert Carradine
Jim Crandell
Belinda Balaski
Maryann
Judy Canova
Sharma Capri
Archie Hahn
Zippo
Carl Gottlieb
Terry McMillan
Mary Woronov
Sandy Harris
James Keach
Wolfe Messer
Dick Miller
Bennie Buckman
Stanley Bennett Clay
Beutell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Produced by Roger Corman to cash in on his own Death Race 2000 success, this basically invented the illegal cross-country race genre that Cannonball Run would later steal.
David and Robert Carradine play rival brothers here—months later they'd reunite as actual brothers in The Long Riders. The mustache tension was real.
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